Posted on 10/05/2009 6:44:21 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Oct 2, 2009 — A new fossil human ancestor has taken center stage. Those who love Lucy, the australopithecine made famous by Donald Johanson (and numerous TV specials), are in for a surprise. Lucy is a has been. Her replacement is not Desi Arnaz, but is designated Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus – the new leading lady in the family tree. Actually, she has been around for years since her discovery in Ethiopia in 1992. It has taken Tim White and crew 15 years to piece together the bones that were in extremely bad condition. But now, Ardi has made her debut and is stealing the limelight...
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The followers of Darwin jumped to too many conclusions, right off the bat. They would do well to take another look at the data. Darwin himself followed his own theory down a dead-end path when he looked at what we now call genetics. After Mendel came along, a lot of what had been concluded was shown to be wrong. It wasn’t until after 1940 that Julian Huxley et al. were able to cobble together a more credible theory. My guess is now they are trying to do the same with fitting the code into the theory.
The phylogeneticists have been saying that chimps and humans are the closest relatives, whereas the morphologists have been saying that we are closer to orangs...now the Ardiologists :o) are saying that humans aren’t on the same branch with either one of them or with Ardi. In other words, human evolution becomes more and more of a subjective mess with each passing “discovery.” You might also want to check out #17 for a recent blast from the past.
Is that the best you could do? LOL!
The theories are equally scientific. My guess is that they will find that the DNAs of humans and Apes respectively are too divergent for any final conclusion to be made, one way or another.
AHA! Cloning...adult stem cells..
I thought it relevant to point out that your source believes that snakes reproduce by parthenogenesis.
Are you saying that divergent snake species cannot interbreed?
Sure we do, Adam was the common ancestor. Descendants of Cain became apes. Seth, humans.
“Except that we don’t know (who?) that common ancestor was.”
I know who it was. . .
The common ancestor of man and the ape? IAC. I think this is all futile and useless so far as an scientific application is concerned.
No.
We we disowned?
Is it you contention that there are no snake species currently inhabiting the wilds of the Hawaiian islands?
No. That was your source’s contention.
The evos have changed their minds, and now say we were never owned by the apes in the first place! With this track record, these guys should be in charge of establishing the identities of new voters for ACORN!
It was always my understanding that evolutionary theory said there was a common ancestor, not a direct descent from apes. Am I mistaken?
Ok, why don’t you tell me what you think my source’s contention about Hawaiian snakes is.
I already did.
“The Hominidae (anglicized Hominids, also known as great apes[notes 1]) form a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: chimpanzees, gorillas, humans and orangutans.
A number of known extinct genera are grouped with humans in the Hominina subtribe, others with orangutans in the Ponginae subtribe. The most recent common ancestor of the Hominidae lived some 13 million years ago, when the ancestors of the orangutans speciated from the ancestors of the other three genera.[citation needed] “
from Wikipedia entry: Hominids.
If Hominids are just another word for “great apes”, then to say that humans evolved from a hominid but didn’t evolve from apes is being a bit disingenuous, don’t you think?
” If a snake on a plane made it to Hawaii...”
It’s not the snake on a plane making it to Hawaii we need to worry about, it’s the snakes on a plane leaving Hawaii! Or am I the only one that saw that Samuel Jackon movie?
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