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Fossils Raise Questions about Human Ancestry
Scientific American ^ | 9/8/2011 | By Ewen Callaway

Posted on 09/08/2011 5:12:55 PM PDT by redreno

New descriptions of Australopithecus sediba fossils have added to debates about the species' place in the human lineage. Five papers published today in Science describe the skull, pelvis, hands and feet of the ancient hominin unearthed three years ago in South Africa.

The papers reveal a curious mix of traits, some found in apes and earlier Australopithecus fossils, and others thought to be unique to Homo erectus--the tall, thin-boned hominin that emerged around 2 million years ago in eastern Africa and colonized Europe and Asia--and its descendants, including modern humans.

(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: australopithecus; godsgravesglyphs; homoerectus
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1 posted on 09/08/2011 5:12:58 PM PDT by redreno
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 09/08/2011 5:16:45 PM PDT by blam
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To: redreno

Annunaki!


3 posted on 09/08/2011 5:20:18 PM PDT by crazydad
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To: redreno

Prepare for:

“It is just a theory” (ignorance on what a Scientific Theory is)
“Where did everything come from?” (conflation of abiogenesis with TToE)
“That ain’t what Bible Says says” (YEC, what can you say but you can ask which version of Genesis)

I now withdraw to watch the fun.


4 posted on 09/08/2011 5:24:47 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (California: Making Texas more Conservative one voter at a time)
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To: freedumb2003

I was YEC but now I’m found.


5 posted on 09/08/2011 5:27:09 PM PDT by shineon
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To: freedumb2003

Darwin was a racist. And a homophobe.


6 posted on 09/08/2011 5:27:41 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

and Anti-Semitic.


7 posted on 09/08/2011 5:31:54 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: freedumb2003
“Where did everything come from?” (conflation of abiogenesis with TToE)

Doesn't "TToE" require abiogenesis in order to begin operating?

TToE necessarily presumes that huge leap of faith with respect to the origin of life.

8 posted on 09/08/2011 5:41:18 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: redreno

But that’s irrelevant to the facts.


9 posted on 09/08/2011 5:46:22 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: redreno

Genesis 1:1


10 posted on 09/08/2011 5:49:51 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
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To: GAB-1955

correct. On this thread.


11 posted on 09/08/2011 5:52:21 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: redreno
"Skin"!

That puts them back in the game..

12 posted on 09/08/2011 5:56:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: redreno

Darwin a Jew-hater? Where does THAT come from?


13 posted on 09/08/2011 6:04:28 PM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: Pharmboy

Darwin was a zealous advocate of the extinction of species (see Chapter Fourteen of The Darwin Papers) and of the extermination of certain races of man, and were he alive today he would be beating the drum to the clubbing of the baby harp seals in Alaska. He was no mere impartial observer of nature. And he left his stamp on the National Socialist and Marxist totalitarian dictatorships that led to the deaths of millions of people in the twentienth century in the name of evolutionary “social progress”.


14 posted on 09/08/2011 6:23:23 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: Pharmboy

That’s a common misunderstanding. On their long voyages on the HMS Beagle, the crew was required to eat or drink limes in order to prevent scurvy.
Chuck just got tired of lime juice. One day a porter tried to hand him his daily ration and said to him, “Here ya go, guvnah.”
And Darwin, tired from drawing lizards and bugs all day replied,
“No thank you. I have come to hate juice.”
The porter took this back to the rest of the crew and they were all fibberjawed and flabbergasted.
This can be found in his book at page 3,120. He went to Queen Victoria and explained the misunderstanding, and she patted his hand and said,
“Tut tut old man. We all hate Jews.”


15 posted on 09/08/2011 6:40:09 PM PDT by tumblindice (Governor Rick Perry: "No border fence")
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To: sargon

“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life” (Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. 6th edition, 1882. p. 421).


16 posted on 09/08/2011 6:57:14 PM PDT by Ira_Louvin (Go tell them people lost in sin, Theres a higher power ,They need not fear the works of men.)
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To: redreno

I always wondered.... if we evolved from apes how come there are still apes?


17 posted on 09/08/2011 7:05:27 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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We don’t club Harp seals in Alaska. We like the music.


18 posted on 09/08/2011 7:07:02 PM PDT by white17x
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To: white17x

Especially when they play the blues.


19 posted on 09/08/2011 7:09:22 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: Ira_Louvin
“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life” (Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. 6th edition, 1882. p. 421).

Is it still not a valid objection now, 130 years later?

Darwin asserting something doesn't make it true.

Abiogenesis remains a huge leap of faith for scientists, and it is an absolutely essential presumption in order for evolutionary processes to ever occur.

I just find that ironic.

20 posted on 09/08/2011 7:16:06 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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