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White Europeans evolved only ‘5,500 years ago’
The Sunday Times ^
| August 30, 2009
| Jonathan Leake
Posted on 08/30/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
The fight potential of this thread is exquisite.Should not be, but oh well, nothing new under that 'sun'.
Most Christians ignore Genesis 2:5 After it is already declared in Genesis 2:4 THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (it is written in all caps in my KJV)
Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:
for the LORD God has not caused it to rain upon the earth, *and* (bit of seed planting follows) there was NOT a man to till the ground.
Then we are told about the formation of 'the' man Adam, quite unlike those 'men/women' created back in Genesis 1:27.
To: decimon
To: La Lydia
If this is case, what about the Inuit in Alaska? Should they not have evolved into light-skinned blonds as well? Good one!
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08/30/2009 10:58:55 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Socialism : Envy gussied up as a political cause...... David Horowitz)
To: decimon
Modern Europeans are descended from the peoples of the Middle East from modern-day Israel and Iran. They migrated up through the Caucases and that is why whites are called Caucasians.
To: RegulatorCountry
His having written millenniums doesnt help, either.Just checked a dictionary and the author is correct.
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posted on
08/30/2009 11:02:07 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
From the PhD crowd - you know, Pile it Higher and Deeper. This one can’t even stand the common sense test.
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08/30/2009 11:04:47 AM PDT
by
CdMGuy
To: decimon
It's British press propaganda to legitimize massive non-White immigration into Britain by claiming that "they're just like us, and we were once them".
The genetic migration and evolution of modern Europeans is well documented and predates tripe like this.
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08/30/2009 11:04:50 AM PDT
by
Regulator
(Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property)
To: decimon
This theory will turn out to be hogwash later on, like so many theories posited in the last century about modern human origins.
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08/30/2009 11:09:44 AM PDT
by
PIF
To: RegulatorCountry
Didn’t Darwin originally say that black people were basically sub-human? Evolution is racist. Many of the “primitive” features of skulls are found in modern black/African skulls. Lower forehead, smaller chin, etc. Whenever a textbook shows a “primitive” skull and a “modern” skull it is always showing a white person’s skull for the “modern” one. It’s obvious to anyone who’s studied forensic anthropology.
To: decimon
He is referring to millennia, in series, one flowing uninterrupted into the next.
“Millenniums” would be differing and separated eras of 1,000 years.
The two are not always interchangeable. The author misuses the term in this instance.
To: decimon
The article fails to mention what effect vitamin D (or lack thereof) had on melanin or melanotropin production. Pigmentation is controlled by melanotropin and the relative lack of constant sunlight in northern climes could cause a reduction in melanotropin release from the pituitary gland, thus causing less melanin pigmentation.
The article states that white europeans "could have" evolved 5500 years ago. Then again, maybe not.
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08/30/2009 11:16:04 AM PDT
by
Mogollon
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
To: SIDENET
then they shot the nose off the sphinx....
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08/30/2009 11:17:02 AM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( If this be treason, then lets make the best of it.)
To: RegulatorCountry
He is referring to millennia, in series, one flowing uninterrupted into the next. Millenniums would be differing and separated eras of 1,000 years.
The two are not always interchangeable. The author misuses the term in this instance.
In which dictionary may I find this?
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08/30/2009 11:17:04 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
I wonder if the first white guy was a racist like the rest of us?
To: AzaleaCity5691
Well duh, I mean, after all, it was only 6000 years ago that the universe was created.
Speaking of serious scientists, you of course are kidding, right? here? on this topic?
:-)
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08/30/2009 11:18:41 AM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
To: Mogollon
It was only when early humans gave up hunter-gathering and switched to farming about 5,500 years ago that white skin began to be favoured, say the researchers. Actually their problem word is 'switched'.
To: Mogollon
The article fails to mention what effect vitamin D (or lack thereof) had on melanin or melanotropin production. Pigmentation is controlled by melanotropin and the relative lack of constant sunlight in northern climes could cause a reduction in melanotropin release from the pituitary gland, thus causing less melanin pigmentation.I don't think they're saying that vitamin D effects melanin production. This would be survival of the fittest and the fittest would have been the lighter skinned in a northern agricultural society.
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08/30/2009 11:21:12 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Oh yeah the whole of this is predicated on the so called Aryan Invasion to India from Europe - but there is more than ample evidence that the ‘invasion’, if it occurred, was the other way around - from India to Europe. Light skinned people lived in India long long before any lived in Europe. Like some one said here - British agitprop.
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08/30/2009 11:21:48 AM PDT
by
PIF
To: going hot
Uh, the world was not created 6,000 years ago. The Church has accepted that evolution probably did happen but that it was guided by God. Until God says otherwise through his servant Benedict or whomever succeeds him I really don’t see the need to dispute that.
And anyone who has had a basic science class knows that white people were in existence in Europe well before the dawn of civilization.
To: PIF
Oh yeah the whole of this is predicated on the so called Aryan Invasion to India from Europe - but there is more than ample evidence that the invasion, if it occurred, was the other way around - from India to Europe. Light skinned people lived in India long long before any lived in Europe. Like some one said here - British agitprop. I don't know how you managed to read that into this.
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08/30/2009 11:25:55 AM PDT
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decimon
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