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1 posted on 10/01/2009 9:29:54 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

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Where is the “Not this Sh*t Again Guy”?

2 posted on 10/01/2009 9:30:29 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

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Every six months now they find the “missing link”, so they can publish some more fantasy

3 posted on 10/01/2009 9:31:59 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)

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4 posted on 10/01/2009 9:32:38 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)

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5 posted on 10/01/2009 9:41:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)

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"Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way."

Ummm, long-ago common ancestor? Like Adam or Eve?

6 posted on 10/01/2009 9:46:09 AM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/user/GloriaJane)

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7 posted on 10/01/2009 10:02:51 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)

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Artie? I knew him well..................

8 posted on 10/01/2009 10:08:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Zero has more airtime than Michael Jordan...........)

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A 4,400,000 year old skeleton on a 5,849 year old earth?

How can it be?

I am so confused!

9 posted on 10/01/2009 10:56:31 AM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)

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Where’s Carl Baugh or Kent Hovind when you need some good solid science? /sarc

10 posted on 10/01/2009 12:11:19 PM PDT by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)

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Related article from World Science

Looks familiar. I think we attended the same high school.

11 posted on 10/01/2009 12:40:01 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)

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Neither fit for climbing or walking? Then according to Darwinist theory what would natural selection have selected and why?

Sounds lke an ad hoc story made to incorporate a few bones.

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Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex?
Posted Oct 1,2009

Among Ardipithecus’s ancestors, such a strategy could catch on if searching for food required a lot of time and exposure to predators. Males would be far more successful food-providers if they had their hands free to carry home loads of fruits and tubers—which would favor walking on two legs. Females would come to prefer good, steady providers with smaller canines over the big fierce-toothed ones who left as soon as they spot another fertile female. The results, says Lovejoy, are visible in Ardipithecus, which had small canines even in males and walked upright. ..............................
National Geographic’s Science Editor, Jamie Shreeve”

Sounds lke an ad hoc story made to incorporate a few bones.

“Just-so story
From Wikipedia,

A just-so story, also called the ad hoc fallacy, is a term used in academic anthropology, biological sciences, social sciences, and philosophy. It describes an unverifiable and unfalsifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice or a biological trait or behavior of humans or other animals. The use of the term is an implicit criticism that reminds the hearer of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation. Such tales are common in folklore and mythology (where they are known as etiological myths — see etiology).”

12 posted on 10/01/2009 12:49:33 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)

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I always find it funny when people bash science and call it propaganda, while insisting the world is only 6000 years old. Hahahahaha

14 posted on 10/02/2009 11:05:57 AM PDT by Synthex

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