Fossil Found In Asia Could Be A New Species Of Human

BI - Livescience ^ | 1-28-2015 | Charles Q. Choi

[tumblindice]

[Tudorfly]

Balderdash, according to the Bible. But, hey, what does God know, other than everything?

[mountainlion]

The writer sounds like an armature. Archeologists call any primate a human. I have a much stricter definition of human.

[mountainlion]

Sorry, that was supposed to be Algorians .

I was thinking Algebrians.

[truth_seeker]

“It’s what the world looked like during the Ice Age when there was less water in the world’s oceans. “

I thought ice covered North America down to and through the Great Lakes region.

[dangus]

FOR THE LAST TIME: HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII!!!!!!

[Salman]

Balderdash, according to the Bible. But, hey, what does God know, other than everything?

God? Or the bronze age horror fantasy recorded in the Bible?

[OftheOhio]

I saw that specimen in person back in the late 60’s at a town festival, lol. I always thought it was nothing more then a frozen chimp.

[DPMD]

Nope. Just Harry Reid, lost again.

[usurper]

That very image popped into my mind when I read:

A nearly complete right side of a lower jaw with primitive-looking teeth.

Thanks for posting it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam!

An ancient human fossil discovered from the seafloor near Taiwan reveals that a primitive group of humans, potentially an unknown species, once lived in Asia... multiple lineages of extinct humans may have coexisted in Asia before... about 40,000 years ago... a nearly complete right side of a lower jaw with primitive-looking teeth... dredged by a fishing net from the seafloor about 200 to 400 feet (60 to 120 meters) below the surface of the Penghu Channel, located about 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) off the western coast of Taiwan. The channel was part of the Asian mainland during the last ice age, when sea levels were lower.

The modern seafloor, that's where it was all happening.

• Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ]

[colorado tanker]

So, all the Chinese have to do is wait for the next ice age and then Taiwan will literally be part of China.

[aimhigh]

If history is any indication, it will turn out to be another jawbone from a pig.

[Gator113]

LMAO

[Gator113]

Michael Jackson..... before the nose job.

[blam]

Thanks. I have the book.

[blam]

"I thought ice covered North America down to and through the Great Lakes region."

It did. This map deals with water level.

[BroJoeK]

Tutorfly: "Balderdash, according to the Bible. But, hey, what does God know, other than everything?"

Of course, the Bible does not tell us everything God knows.
But it does say, in Genesis 6, that there were once many humans God regretted making.
So, should we be surprised to find, from time to time, remains of some of those?

As for age estimates (10,000 to 190,000 years), the data seems inconclusive, especially since it: "does resemble a 400,000-year-old fossil from Hexian, in southern China".

Bottom line: not too much can be said for certain, until/unless more such fossils are found.

[FBD]

“But it does say, in Genesis 6, that there were once many humans God regretted making.So, should we be surprised to find, from time to time, remains of some of those?”

-that wouldn't be a very omniscient or omnipotent Deity; one that had *regrets* about something imperfect this invisible deity created, would it now.

“Oops. My bad mistake, do over.”

[BroJoeK]

FBD: "-that wouldn't be a very omniscient or omnipotent Deity; one that had *regrets* about something imperfect this invisible deity created, would it now."

Just guessing, you intended that sarcastically, right?

The NIV says it very clearly (Genesis 6:6):

"The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled."

But even the KJV is clear enough to understand:

"And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."

And, indeed, isn't the geological record chock full of fossils of beasts which never made it into the modern world?