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Amazing how Huxley used the "language of science" to provide evidence for evolution, but failed (as did Darwin) to provide any actual evidence of evolution. Also amazing is how Darwin acknowledged that all he had was the language of science to back up the theory, and that the theory didn't actually hold any water.


1,165 posted on 09/26/2006 10:58:06 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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Amazing how Huxley used the "language of science" to provide evidence for evolution, but failed (as did Darwin) to provide any actual evidence of evolution. Also amazing is how Darwin acknowledged that all he had was the language of science to back up the theory, and that the theory didn't actually hold any water.

This (below) is the language of science. This is data! And guess what, it was found long after Darwin and Huxley! Gee, science actually goes out and finds data. Too bad the Discovery Institute and the rest of those folks can't do the same. All they can do is carp from the cheap seats.

Darwin acknowledged that he did not have the fossils he needed. But he was writing 150 years ago. Do you really think that no fossils have been found in those intervening years? Do you think paleontologists have been doing armchair science?

I have posted this to you before but you have just waved it away. Maybe repetition will help.

This is a transitional. This is data. Your disbelief based on religions grounds does not change a thing. This nice skull is still there, and science is still moving forward.

Note its position in the chart which follows (hint--in the upper center). (You could call this a "missing link" except that its not missing):



Fossil: KNM-ER 3733

Site: Koobi Fora (Upper KBS tuff, area 104), Lake Turkana, Kenya (4, 1)

Discovered By: B. Ngeneo, 1975 (1)

Estimated Age of Fossil: 1.75 mya * determined by Stratigraphic, faunal, paleomagnetic & radiometric data (1, 4)

Species Name: Homo ergaster (1, 7, 8), Homo erectus (3, 4, 7), Homo erectus ergaster (25)

Gender: Female (species presumed to be sexually dimorphic) (1, 8)

Cranial Capacity: 850 cc (1, 3, 4)

Information: Tools found in same layer (8, 9). Found with KNM-ER 406 A. boisei (effectively eliminating single species hypothesis) (1)

Interpretation: Adult (based on cranial sutures, molar eruption and dental wear) (1)

See original source for notes:
Source: http://www.mos.org/evolution/fossils/fossilview.php?fid=33


Source: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol_info.html

1,168 posted on 09/26/2006 11:14:28 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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Also amazing is how Darwin acknowledged that all he had was the language of science to back up the theory, and that the theory didn't actually hold any water.

Oh, I can't wait for a citation on that one. I am on pins and needles. Please show us all where Darwin said his theory didn't hold water.

1,195 posted on 09/27/2006 5:59:58 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Critical Thinking"="I don't understand it so it must be wrong.")
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