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To: srweaver
What many don't realize is that sometimes these HUGE finds of "millions" of years old humans are usually only a partial skeleton, perhaps a few teeth, and some other bone fragments. The rest is speculation.

Many people do realize this. But, do you realize that with several decades of study, paleontologists and other experts get to be quite good at what they do?

When you have a lot of fossils, you can fill in for missing data on a particular specimen. Experts routinely do this in a lot of different fields.

Your are confusing your religious belief, which leads you to discount evolution no matter what the data may be, with scientific evidence. In the fields of science, your doubt does not constitute a scientific argument, and your opinions are those of an uninformed layman.

176 posted on 09/18/2006 6:36:38 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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Coyoteman,

Please reply to post 172.

And I am routinely reading where today's latest "find" will cause reexamination of previously held beliefs in the field (the beliefs can no longer be "true" because of the new discovery), which does not give me a lot of confidence in the guesses of experts. Even if they have integrity, and are not trying to just get grant money for their new "sensational" studies/discoveries, they don't have a lot of stability or longetivity in their theories.


182 posted on 09/18/2006 6:55:10 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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