Posted on 12/18/2013 10:11:55 AM PST by null and void
Lets give her a hand for a job well done!
It’s a hand job?
Either that, or somebody was careless discarding the remains of their Buffalo Wings.
Oops, turned out to be the leg bone of a turkey.
Or an extinct pig tooth like Nebraska Man.
It’ll never close the credibility gap.
That is from the previous humans 3-D printed bone.
See, history does repeat itself.
Yet another “hominid fossil of the month”.
Yawn.
Nonsense!
If you find a fossil in the exact middle of a gap, one that perfectly matched the predicted transitional form in that gap, you have NOT filled that gap.
You have merely created two gaps on either side of it.
That's why they call people who believe this "creationists", they create gaps where data fills holes...
Yeah, people should stop finding these things. Old news.
> Yeah, people should stop finding these things. Old news.
They can find all they want.
The old news is that they try to make it into big news, when further analysis reveals it to be the femur of an opossum or something.
If the styloid process in the hand bone has not been seen in any human fossil older than 1.8 million years, how did it suddenly appear, fully formed?
That’s quite a mutation. We’re asked to believe the human hand was a primitive, clumsy thing, and suddenly became dextrous almost overnight in the span of evolutionary time.
Perhaps some paleontologist here can enlighten me.
You know what they say about using the word, "never". :)
"Without a doubt, the ultimate Black Swan is whatever it was that permitted merely genetic human beings to emerge into full humanness just yesterday (cosmically speaking), some 50,000 years ago.
Prior to this there was existence, but so what? There was life, but who cares? With no one to consciously experience it, what was the point? Without self-conscious observers, the whole cosmos could bang into being and contract into nothingness, and it would be no different than the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it.
.....Most science and religion are unserious, but especially -- one might say intrinsically -- when they exclude each other.
A religion that cannot encompass science is not worthy the name, while a science that cannot be reconciled with religion is not fit for human beings. And I mean this literally, in that it will be a science that applies to a different species, not the one that is made to know love, truth, beauty, existence, and the Absolute. Science must begin and end in this principle -- which is to say, the Principle -- or it is just a diversion. ...."
HERE: Creation Myths of the Tenured
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"...human consciousness is a revolutionary development "which cannot be arrived at by means of either logic or evolution." This revolution is outside and beyond the boundaries of all science and all philosophy, for it represents a radical discontinuity with all that has come before.
Yes, there are continuities, obviously; but in its essence, human consciousness is absolutely unlike anything else in all of creation. Evolution doesn't really have room for true creative novelty, since its apparent novelty is just an illusory result of random accidents, not any conscious intent.
Furthermore, evolution does not, and cannot, confer meaning on existence. Rather, it is only humans who decipher meaning in an evolutionary process that cannot account for it.
.......otherwise we would be like animals, who essentially have only preprogrammed responses to environmental stimuli. ...
Humanly speaking, there can be nothing "higher" than the love of truth. It is not as if we will "evolve" beyond such love; rather, one can only progress backward, as in deconstruction, multiculturalism, leftism, etc. ...."
If further analysis somehow proves it’s the femur of “an opossum or something”, then that will also be published and discussed.
When do we evolve into talking apes like on Planet of the Apes?
As near as I can figure, several ice ages ago.
Some of us still do "polar bear hunting"...
Where is it claimed it appeared fully formed? 400,000 years is a long time with a lot of offspring. Assuming a generation of 30, a very high estimate, it’s like your grandparents with over 13,000 greats in front of grandparent.
We have. Just that most of us are less hairy.
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