Posted on 03/07/2005 3:19:42 PM PST by Truth666
A joint Ethiopian-US team of palaeontologists announced on Saturday they had discovered the world's oldest biped skeleton to be unearthed so far, dating it to between 3.8 and four million years old.
"This is the world's oldest biped," Bruce Latimer, director of the natural history museum in Cleveland, Ohio, told a news conference in the Ethiopian capital, adding that "it will revolutionise the way we see human evolution".
The bones were found three weeks ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, at a site some 60 kilometres from Hadar where Lucy, one of the first hominids, was discovered in 1974. Researchers at the site in northeast Ethiopia have in all unearthed 12 hominid fossils, of which parts of one skeleton were discovered.
Hobbit Hoax - is there a limit to the increase in evolution lies ?
" ... it will revolutionise the way we see human evolution"
If I only had a buck for every time some fossil scavenger said that !
Will this turn out to be the rest of the "hog?" Remembering the tooth that became a display, a civilization and way of life. So much from so little.
True! I saw a show on TV the other night about fossils. They had rocks that had been "carbon dated" to be 140million years old. Broke some of them open and one had a modern battery in it, one had a newish style hammer, and I forgot what the other one had. The point was that carbon dating is NOT accurate. These fossils were not very old at all.
Do you have a ping list? I'd like to be on it. Thanks.
OF COURSE MILLIONS WILL BY THIS JUMBO. NEXT WILL COME A COMPLETE "ARTIST CONSEPTION" OF THIS EARTH SHAKING FIND. PROBABLY WILL LOOK A LOT LIKE KERRY. NOW I COULD BUY THAT!
Carbon dating can only apply to fossils of less than 50,000 years old. Why does all coal have carbon 14 in it??
Carbon...unreliable for dating fossils, unreliable for making copies of Bush memos...great for smearing people like Dan Rather with, though...
The world is only 51 years old, because that's how old I am and I can't remember anything before my 1st birthday.
One more post. The anthropologists tell the geologists how old they think the fossils are, so the geologists date the layers accordingly. Then the geologists tell the anthropologists how old that layer is when new fossils are found. The biggest circle jerk ever.
What other theory would you recommend? Evolutionary science is pretty central to the study modern biology and genetics.
I wondered where Helen Thomas went after she retired.
Yes, this should be required. Damn those pesky scientists and their provable findings!
Life was much simpler when the Earth was 6000 years old and the center of the universe. Then "science" came along and screwed everything up!
I don't believe there has ever been a "science" with as many frauds, hoaxes, mistakes and flim-flammery as this preposterous darwin belief system. And they call you names if you don't swallow it!
YES, BUT IF THE ANKLE BONE IS CONNECTED TO THE LEG BONE AND LEG BONE IS CONNECTED TO THE KNEE B0NE ------
Scientists fabricate dinosaur bones in a lab, they make all this stuff up. Then they bury the fake bones under tons of earth that they lay down in sedimentary layers to fool stupid people. Geologists are so stupid, they can't even find oil.
biped ping!
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