Posted on 10/01/2009 12:18:15 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Probable life appearance in anterior view of Ardipithecus ramidus ("Ardi"), ARA-VP 6/500.Photograph by: Handout, Illustrations 2009, J.H. Matternes
An international team of scientists unveiled Thursday the results of 15 years of study of one of the oldest known human ancestors, Ardipithecus ramidus, which they say overturns much of what we know about human evolution.
And surprisingly, it's also rewriting the story of our relation to gorillas and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and their development as well.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, one of the authors involved in the research and the man who discovered the first pieces of the most complete Ardipithecus ramidus specimen, nicknamed Ardi by the researchers, says the findings represent a complete rewrite about what is known about human and ape evolution, and give new insight into how we became bipedal.
"What we are seeing . . . is something we never expected to find in the human lineage," he says, his voice buoyant on the phone from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where he is Curator/Head Physical Anthropology.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
At least paragraphs of hyperbole without a concrete fact to start the article off with. Canada.com should have the author of this piece write about social occasions for which he is clearly more fitted.
Didn’t you notice the drivel I was responding to?
If you had called out the flood part I wouldn’t have mentioned it because I already know you don’t believe in such things. Honestly, I usually wonder why you don’t just steer clear of this type of discussion, given your disbelief in creation. I like to encourage FReepers to be kind to each other because we are all supposed to be conservatives here. For the record, I knew you were goofing on me about Niagara Falls the other day, but I didn’t mind :)
My statement was exactly correct. Niagara Falls is where the concept of geologic time was first postulated, then proved, setting the world of YEC’s on their ear.
Creationists show no ‘kindness’ whatsoever toward those who don’t believe as they do, so stop trying to make some moral equivalence between creationist and conservatives.
‘Post hoc ergo proptor hoc’ is invalid no matter how you look at it.
I promote kindness for all FReepers. Part of the ‘rules’ for Free Republic, as spelled out by Jim Robinson on the homepage, is that we refrain from personal attacks on each other. I wouldn’t except from my children your assertion that, “well other people do it.” You have generalized that creationists do not showing kindness. That is a lie because I am one, and have not attacked anyone for the lack of belief in it. I asked FReeper >1/1,000,000th % , not you, for an example of where the entire geologic column could be seen in person. Niagara Falls doesn’t do that and as I understand it doesn’t exist anywhere. If you know of a location that does, clue me in, but I am only interested in respectful discussions here, not name-calling and snide comments. If you cannot disguss it in this manner, I have no interest in anything you say, no hard feelings.
I said “except”, of course I meant “accept”
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