Ancient human ancestor 'Little Foot' makes public debut

CNN ^ | Updated 8:47 AM ET, Wed December 6, 2017 | By David McKenzie

[Fedora]

“The team says that Little Foot is from a second species, Australopithecus prometheus, which was named back in 1948 from fragmentary fossils. . .By placing the fossils at well over 3 million years old, Clarke is bound to reignite a debate about the age of the find, which has been disputed over the years. Some scientists have given it a far more recent place on the human evolutionary tree.”

[AndyJackson]

For anyone who takes paleoanthropology seriously there is a wonderful book on the discovery of Homo Naledi and more broadly the history of discoveries in the Sterkfontein cave system.

[going hot]

Just thinking, that guy’s coat would make a nice ready made gillie suit.

[dsc]

“I am Not buyin’ what they be sellin’...”

Okay, so how did those fossils become encased in that breccia?

Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata Mundi, miserere nobis.

[heterosupremacist]

dsc wrote: “I am Not buyin’ what they be sellin’...” Okay, so how did those fossils become encased in that breccia? I'm not disputing the scientific fact that these fossils exist, but call me skeptical about the dating of said fossils... Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata Mundi, miserere nobis. P.S. the Agnus Dei has long been one of my favorite hymns - I started singing it as soon as I read your reply!

[dsc]

I am one of those who don’t think there is any conflict between Catholicism and science that cannot be explained by human error.

Once you swallow the camel—God created the heavens and the earth—getting all wrapped around the axle about exactly how He did it or how long it took Him seems like straining at a gnat.

Maybe we are way off on dating the fossil record. The prospect neither excites nor daunts me. Maybe God created man by a process of successive approximations that took what looks like billions of years to us.

I’ve toyed with the speculation that it wasn’t until the Toba dieback that mankind were ensouled, but there’s nothing to back that up.

My point is that it’s not really something to get all exercised about.

[heterosupremacist]

*Maybe we are way off on dating the fossil record. The prospect neither excites nor daunts me. Maybe God created man by a process of successive approximations that took what looks like billions of years to us.* True, God existed before He created the cosmos, and everything in it. God is eternal, He is the one who created time! It is irrelevant, even if the dating is correct; (I'm not exercised about it) I just don't like the idea of scientists being so smug about their predictions... They demand that you take their speculations as facts, so I ain't buying what they are selling. Dominus vobiscum ╬

[dsc]

“I just don’t like the idea of scientists being so smug about their predictions.”

Yeah, smugitude is irritating wherever found.

Et cum spiritu tuo. (Do *not* search the Internet for that.)

(I’m not kidding.)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fedora.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve been from Tuscon to Tucumcari.

[dfwgator]

"How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?"

[Fhios]

Wow, why are you guys going over my posts from December? I was hospitalized during that period. I take no responsibility for my posts that december.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Hahahahaha, no matter the thread or the topic, you NEVER disappoint!