[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[Larry Lucido]

ICR: “Discovery of 500,000 year old tools helps prove earth is only 6000 years old!”

Wonder if the Craftsman warranty is still good?

[the long march]

Keep lookin’ boys

[theymakemesick]

Here are the "blades":

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/402/2

[HospiceNurse]

That figure was later revised to 200,000, around the Middle Stone Age

I respectfully suggest that the author doesn't understand the meaning of the phrase "stone age". It is impossible for hominids to start using tools in the middle of the stone age since the stone age describes the entire period of hominids using stone tools. Hence, they could not be considered to begin using stone tools in the "middle" stone age.

Archaeology is concerned with the origins and development of early human culture between the first appearance of man as a tool-using mammal, which is believed to have occurred about 600,000 or 700,000 years ago, and the beginning of the Recent geologic era, about 8000 BC.

http://history-world.org/stone_age.htm

[MrB]

Well, obviously the rock layers were mis-dated.

Since stone tools are known to have been made only 40,000 years ago, the layer of stone these were found in must be 40k or less years old.

Do I have the evo circular reasoning down?

[allmendream]

Evolutionary anthropologists?

Please. They are simply anthropologists.

Creationists like to tack the word “evolutionary” onto anything they disagree with. It is a buzzword for their brain numbed followers so that they won’t actually have to think; and their objections to these people and their findings need not be explained or detailed other than to say that they are “evolutionists” and thus worthy of contempt to those with more spite and ignorance than knowledge.

Anthropologists are not specifically trained in evolutionary theory, neither did the theory of evolutionary biology in any way influence their data.

Rocks do not evolve by means of natural selection of genetic variation.