Fresh debate over human origins

BBC News ^ | 24 December 2002 | staff

[PatrickHenry]

New thread ping.

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[Saturnalia]

Quick, hide this thread from f.Christian!

[Gary Boldwater]

What's amusing is that ancient man/dinosaurs are assumed to be most abundant where fossils are most easily found today - in dry, arid climates. Suppose man really started in Greenland, how would anyone know without a fossil record (which would now be under miles of ice)? It's fun to theorize but remember the data set is highly skewed.

[Aric2000]

It may be skewed, but it sure is fun to try to figure out!!

[Old Professer]

I'm not comfortable with the notion that early man ventured forth simply out of curiosity; another problem I have is the obvious pigmentation differences among people of different geographical distributions while most modern mixed breeds tend to the darker parent almost exclusively.

The accepted notion of African origin is supported by the fossil record and the assumption that a benign climate acted as a stress-reducer for survival of offspring prior to established tribes or communes, but why would a satisfied animal leave such a benign climate?

All of this is too much for my small mind.

[Sabertooth]

"This new research suggests there could have been some interbreeding, but as the authors recognise, it could have been limited, and whether it happened at all is still an open question."

Sounds like a conclusive "maybe, maybe not."

Anyway, where are the Zdenek Burian pictures?

[f.Christian]

FR extreme left wing whacks...

Welcome!

Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!

What are you conserving...the left lunatic fringe---post fringe?

[f.Christian]

More evo tripe...

Creation/God...REFORMATION(Judeo-Christianity)---secular-govt.-humanism/SCIENCE---CIVILIZATION!

Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives(no govt religion--none) who advocated growth and progress---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality... UNDER GOD---the nature of GOD/man/govt. does not change. These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values(private/personal) GROWTH(limited NON-intrusive PC Govt/religion---schools)!

Evolution...Atheism-dehumanism---TYRANNY(pc/liberal/govt-religion/rhetoric)...

Then came the SPLIT SCHIZOPHRENIA/ZOMBIE/BRAVE-NWO1984 LIBERAL NEO-Soviet Darwin/ACLU America---the post-modern age of liberal tripe...

[stanz]

Have you ever been diagnosed as bi-polar?

[Gary Boldwater]

One question for you:

Who created God?

[Aric2000]

Now we are all in trouble, F.Christian has found the thread and will have a heyday tossing in his mindless drivel.

Do what others have learned to do.

Ignore him.

[Sentis]

The problem with the studies showing no Neanderthal genetic information in the modern Human genome is that the genetic information was taken only from two Neanderthal specimens. This is not near the number of specimens needed to determine that.

[Gary Boldwater]

Is he open loop or does he respond to questions?

[Aric2000]

He'll respond, it is just a matter of figuring out whether it's an answer or not.

I think there is a code, but I don't think any of us have figured it out yet.

Maybe you have to be a whacked out, bi-polar, medicated, hardcore fundamentalist Christian to understand, and since MOST of us aren't any of those things, it's kind of hard to get the code down.

[JusticeLives]

What Gary Boldwater said:

"One question for you:

Who created God?"

(heh heh) Most EXCELLENT question, Gary!

What's the answer?

I also like your screen name, Barry ;)

[Sentis]

I doubt they evolved into humans they may have been a type of modern Human that was cold weather adapted or they were not so far different genetically from modern Humans that they couldn't breed into the incoming population. Either way past studies that suggest Neanderthal genes are not present in Modern populations are flawed. Never trust genetic studies by European scientists done in the past few years. There seems to have been a resurgence in the type of bad science that the Nazis participated in. They have no wish to be related to the Neanderthal and skew studies to show that european populations aren't related.

[Sentis]

If you check f,christian has posted that same string of words on every evolution thread. It is actually in his Free republic bio along with every other string of words he posts.