Oldest biped skeleton discovered - new evolution record, 1.2 millions added in one day

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/421933.htm ^ | Mon, 07 Mar 2005

[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.

[Truth666]

The good old suggestion trick: using the expression "tons of earth" and suggesting that people protesting evolution lies contest that there are dinosaur bones buried under earth.

[dayton law dude]

Seen this one yet?

[AntiGuv]

Infamous exemplar of creationist nonsense: Dinosaurs: Science Or Science Fiction.

[pipecorp]

Given the speed at which Mt. St. Helens deposited new sediment, and the rate at which we see our current topography changing, fakery may not be so difficult. ( I don't believe they are faking the bone finds however)So, I am far more skeptical of any dating process. Remember also, It takes millions of years for a diamond to be created, right? ;^)

[libertylass]

Please add me to any PING lists also...

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

What other theory would you recommend? Evolutionary science is pretty central to the study modern biology and genetics.
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Snapping of fingers.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

dating it to between 3.8 and four million years old

In a related story, Anna Nicole Smith has offered the biped a lap dance...

[DannyTN]

So now man was on the earth almost 4,000,000 years and didn't manage to leave a significant trace until the last 6,000-10,000 years. Yeah right.

[PatrickHenry]

I think this is the same event reported in this older thread, which has already had an evo ping:
Ethiopia Archaeologists Make Important Fossil Find.

[printhead]

How does one read this sentence "Researchers at the site in northeast Ethiopia have in all unearthed 12 hominid fossils, of which parts of one skeleton were discovered" ? What's left to be fossilized if it's not skeletal? Are teeth and jaw bones
conclusive enough to be from a hominid? Poor writing at best.

[DannyTN]

"Evolutionary science is pretty central to the study modern biology and genetics."

Evolution called a lot of DNA "junk DNA". Had scientists listened to them, they might have quit investigating.

Evolution called various human organs and features "vestigal" and some medical people believed them. We now know that there are no vestigal organs in the human body that do not have function.

Evolution really contributes very little to science and the study of God's design. In some cases it actually gets in the way.

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[b4its2late]

Another date for slick willy.

[Leo Carpathian]

and God said , enough of them monkeys roaming around, I am putting some people on this earth to clean the mess up. And here we are.

or

are all those monkoids deteriorated, degenerated democrats? Keep digging deeper, there should more older bones there. Seriesly!

[Coyoteman]

Son, your desperate attempts to disparage evolution are becoming tiresome. Better learn some science.

[TaxRelief]

So you think dinosaur bones are fake? Well, that's not a good starting place if you want to understand creation.

[theFIRMbss]

>Then they bury the fake bones under tons of earth that they lay down in sedimentary layers to fool stupid people

That would be stupid! They BEAM the bones underground with a transporter!

[js1138]

Evolution called a lot of DNA "junk DNA". Had scientists listened to them, they might have quit investigating.

so who exactly are "evolution" as opposed to "scientists".

|Do you have any idea what percentage of "junk" DNA has a known function?

And which creation scientists are at work decoding the function of the rest Name some of them.

[Zhangliqun]

If we evolved from monkeys and apes, why are there still monkeys and apes? Or better yet, why aren't there creatures on the earth right now that are in a state of evolution a quarter of the way, half-way, or 3/4ths of the way between an ape and a human? Wouldn't we have some primate like that living somewhere in the world, with which we could communicate and reason on a level not quite human but advanced significantly beyond the other primates? Something that maybe even has a partially developed moral sense? Or did evolution just suddenly stop?

[bpjam]

I don't believe that we have only been on Earth 2-3000 years but 4,000,000? Did the guy have an expired dry cleaning receipt in his pocket? Where are the signs that this guy or anybody else existed? Its a little suspicious that we have managed to evolve society so far in the past couple thousand years while we did virtually nothing for nearly 4,000,000? And physically we are virtually unchanged in the past couple thousand years but we were freaking fish only 10,000,000 years ago? Something about all this smells.

I think I prefer the theory that aliens dropped us here a few thousand years ago to avoid shipping charges on the way to another universe. As soon as they get the tariffs reduced, they will come back and pick us up.