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.
Tsk Tsk, everyone knows the ankle bone is connected to the drinking bone. ...It's a good country song but I cant remember the singer
The answer to most of your questions is natural selection.
You mean moonboy's followers???
Tracy Byrd (No relation to the shriveled-up little kkk/nazi senator from West Virginia).
"That would be stupid!
They BEAM the bones underground
with a transporter!"
I feel so stupid, now that you've pointed out such an elemenal error on my part.
My guess is that 100% of it has a known function. It's just not known by human science. But no, I don't know, but I know that scientists keep finding more of it has a function than earlier believed.
And which creation scientists are at work decoding the function of the rest Name some of them.
There's a whole list of creation scientists including several biologists at the ICR website. However, most scientists that believe in creation don't advertise it because of the anti-creation bias and the militant evolutionists.
In fact, I wouldn't tell you of any that weren't openly publishing it, because of the militant attitude of the evolutionists. There are people who make it their life's work to harrass the employers of creationists in science disciplines.
There were...but we (our fully human ancestors) ate them.
YEC INTREP - On what do they base the age?
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?
And to top it off, what are we evolving into? Can we stop it? Do we want to stop it? Is this the best that evolution can do? If there is life on Mars, would we even recognize what it looks like?
The E world is in the midst of a crisis. Their theory is not the only one on the market these days and that means a money crunch.
Actually, you just exposed a lot of your misunderstandings and ignorance of science. But if you want to feel like you somehow accomplished something, don't let me stop you.
How exactly do you plan to "require" this? Torture and burning at the stake, perhaps?
And evolution is not a "presumption", it is the very well-established theory which was developed by following the evidence.
it is one theory
It is an extremely well-supported theory, and there are no credible opposing hypotheses, much less any competing theories in the scientific sense.
and should not be the foundation for all science.
It isn't, just most of biology.
It is misleading.
In what way? Be precise and provide support.
Two Evolutionists playing Poker...
"Hey Bert, I'll raise you a couple of miilion years on the fossil record."
"All right Edgar...I can beat that though. I'll double your bet."
etc. etc.
You're repeating a creationist lie. Congratulations, they suckered you in.
Next time, try learning about science from actual scientific sources. Trying to "learn" about science from creationist sources is like trying to "learn" about conservatism from Michael Moore movies -- and for exactly the same reasons.
The remains of the world's oldest biped? Nah, it can't be-Robert Byrd is still walking around.
Nice try -- you either grossly misunderstood whatever the show actually said, or you were watching some incompetent creationist video.
Carbon dating only produces results in the 0 to 50,000 year range.
Would you care to retract your bogus claim now?
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.
Yeah. Sure. We believe you.
The point was that carbon dating is NOT accurate.
Actually, the point is that either you or your source (or both) are either lying or completely incompetent. Neither actually demonstrates that carbon dating is inaccurate.
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