Actually, whenever I see Alan Grayson on TV I think "troglodyte" more than "missing link."
Posted on 04/04/2010 6:15:54 AM PDT by tom h
A "missing link" between humans and their apelike ancestors has been discovered.
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.
Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously-unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been a intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced humans, Homo habilis.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Actually, whenever I see Alan Grayson on TV I think "troglodyte" more than "missing link."
Again!!???
Man, they better put that thing in a vault this time, or they’ll just lose him again.
Grayson reminds me of CNN’s Rick Sanchez only less partisan.
OK, so how do you have an ancestor of H. Habilis that showed up on the fossil record half a million years AFTER H. Habilis??
“A “missing link” between humans and their apelike ancestors has been discovered.
Wish I had a Krugerrand for every time I’ve ever heard that one!
It has to be Obama.............
Isn’t it amazing the timing of this find. Timing the disclosure around Easter. As usual, total BS.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15012-seven-of-the-greatest-scientific-hoaxes.html
Seven of the greatest scientific hoaxes
27 October 2008
by Eleanor Harris
For this week’s issue of New Scientist I edited a review of The Sun and the Moon by Matthew Goodman, which tells the story of the great moon hoax of 1835. Read the review here.
This got me thinking about other great scientific hoaxes in the past. After doing a bit of digging, I was amazed by how many there were - and at the variety and creativity of the hoaxes. Here are a few of the best.
Of course, there are serious cases of scientific fraud, such as the stem cell researchers recently found guilty of falsifying data and the South Korean cloning fraud. The following stories, however, are not so serious.
Piltdown Man
In 1912, solicitor and amateur palaeontologist Charles Dawson “found” the Piltdown fossils, a skull and jawbone that appeared to be half-man half-ape, in Sussex. They were hailed as the evolutionary “missing link” between apes and humans.
It was over 40 years later, in 1953, that the fossil was exposed as a fake. In fact, the skull was constructed from a medieval human cranium attached to the jaw of an orang-utan.
The Cardiff Giant
A ten-foot “petrified man” was dug up on a small farm in Cardiff, New York, in October 1869. The “Cardiff Giant” became a huge news story and many Americans travelled to see it.
Early in 1870, it was revealed as a fake, the creation of New Yorker George Hull, who had paid for it to be carved out of stone.
Beringer’s fraudulent fossils
Physician Johann Beringer was amazed when he was presented with fossils “found” in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1725, which depicted incredible scenes: the forms of birds, bees, snails, lizards, plants with flowers, frogs mating and insects feeding, not to mention comets, moons and suns.
It turned out that he was the victim of an elaborate plot: envious colleagues of Beringer had planted the fossils.
Unfortunately, Beringer fell for it hook, line and sinker, and even published a book to tell the world about the fossils. Rumour has it that once Beringer realised the hoax, he tried to buy up any unsold copies of his book. (See Johann Beringer and the fraudulent fossils)
There are many more examples of fossil fraud, such as the fake “entombed toad” and the fake fossil fly in amber.
The Sokal hoax
In 1996, American physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper loaded with nonsensical jargon to the journal Social Text, in which he argued that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. (Read Sokal’s paper)
When the journal published it, Sokal revealed that the paper was in fact a spoof. The incident triggered a storm of debate about the ethics of Sokal’s prank.
The spaghetti tree
In 1957, the BBC show Panorama broadcast a programme about the spaghetti tree in Switzerland. It showed a family harvesting pasta that hung from the branches of the tree.
After watching the programme, hundreds of people phoned in asking how they could grow their own tree. Alas, it was an April Fools’ Day joke.
The Upas tree
An account was published in the London Magazine in 1783 by a Dutch surgeon named Foersch (his initials were variously given as NP and JN). It claimed the existence of a tree on the island of Java so poisonous that it killed everything within a 15-mile radius.
Read the original account (scroll down to find it)
This was the start of a legend. Even Erasmus Darwin wrote about it in a poem in 1791. A note to the poem read, “There is a poison-tree in the island of Java, which is said by its effluvia to have depopulated the country... in a district of 12 or 14 miles round it, the face of the earth is quite barren and rocky, intermixed only with the skeletons of men and animals; affording a scene of melancholy beyond what poets have described or painters delineated.”
You really can find the Upas tree in Indonesia. Though not as potent as legend would have it, the latex of the tree does contain a powerful toxin, which was traditionally used on arrow points.
The secret of immortality
Johann Heinrich Cohausen, an 18th-century physician, wrote a treatise on the prolongation of life, entitled Hermippus redivivus. Amongst other secrets of longevity, it claimed that life could be prolonged by taking an elixir produced by collecting the breath of young women in bottles.
Actually, Cohausen admitted in the last few pages of the work that it was a satire, so any gullible readers wouldn’t have been duped for too long
How many times has the “missing link” been found?
I lost count of all the hoaxes.
Truly, open your eyes.
The “missing link” is running our country!
The “missing link” is OBAMA!
Examine the whole tribe till your hearts content.
It is ... the godless left is to blind to see it.
As I said before, it’s OBAMA!
Examine his tribe, er the family for more mutations.
Thanks for posting. I had forgotten about many of them.
Isn’t it amazing that with all the knowledge we have indicating that all living systems have at their core a set of blueprints, and by extension a designer, that evolutionists are caught in the dark ages of their minds, sifting through dirt to find validation of their non-purposeful lives? It is astounding!!
HAHAHAHAHA!! By golly, I think you’re on to something!
OHHhhhhhhhhhh!
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