'Astonishing' skull unearthed in Africa

BBC Online ^ | 10 July, 2002 | Ivan Noble

[Kermit]

I'm sorry, they simply cannot know, which fossils were related to other fossils, especially based on the tiny number of fossils they have. Question: How does one species beget another?

[EaglesUpForever]

"They've called it a male individual, based on the strong brow ridge, but it's equally possible it's a female,"

Must be one of Janet Reno's ancestors...

[Kermit]

Shoot! Posted here already. I did search, but with the quotation marks.:^|

[DrCarl]

>Question: How does one species beget another?

Question: How can this be 2002 and we still have adults who still don't know the answer to this question?

[dixierat22]

7 MILLION years ago, plus or minus a couple hundred thousand? Even if their science is good, they're still speculating. How do they know it's not from an ape?

The bottom line is the scientists have no real proof, just evidence. The great thing is, we can each believe what we wish!

[DrCarl]

>The bottom line is the scientists have no real proof, just evidence. The great thing is, we can each believe what we wish!

You have got to be kidding. Why are you so afraid that the overwhelming evidence supporting human evolution will rock your world? It's okay. We evolved. Fit your Good into it somehow.

[cogitator]

How do they know it's not from an ape?

There are distinct differences between skulls from apes and hominids. Presumably there are enough characteristics in this find to allow the scientists to distinguish its hominid "status". Otherwise this wouldn't be described in such glowing terms.

[DrCarl]

>This provesit !!!! There is no GOD!!!!

There never was a logical reason to think there was.

[evilsmoker]

Doc Newdow, isn't there a lawsuit you should be filing or something?

[DrCarl]

>Doc Newdow, isn't there a lawsuit you should be filing or something?

Thank your God for courageous geniuses like Newdow. Were human advancement left to people like you, we'd not yet have figured out what to do with caves.

[MosesKnows]

is thought to be approximately seven million years old.

Doesn't it seem that in seven million years we should have advanced further than we have.

[MosesKnows]

This proves it !!!! There is no GOD!!!!

Is this the proof you've been searching for? Does it explain the vast differences between man and the remainder of the planets life forms? Could those who accept the notion of a creator believe that an infinite God could not create a billion year old rock or a seven million year old skull?

[PatrickHenry]

Already posted. HERE.

[Sangamon Kid]

Thank your God for courageous geniuses like Newdow. Were human advancement left to people like you, we'd not yet have figured out what to do with caves.

Well since it wasn't left to us, then human advancement has been left to people like you. Pray tell good Doctor why the human psyche hasn't evolved one iota in all these years. Why haven't we conquered the 7 deadly sins? On the contrary, we seem to be regressing into barbarity. Anthropologists seem to be consumed with the understanding of the physical development of man, but are strangely silent when it comes to understanding the spiritual condition of mankind. Surely one cannot divide the two.

[RightWhale]

There never was a logical reason to think there was.

We're not going to fall for the excluded middle any longer. Weren't you all over in Afghanistan sowing Existentialism in Taliban fields? The French Intellectuals SWAT Team. How'd that work out? Those Alqaida finally shrug their shoulders and give up?

[VRWC_minion]

Maybe someone could answer this for me. Man apparently went through all sorts of evolving while at the same time the ape never changed. That is something I don't get.

[PatrickHenry]

Man apparently went through all sorts of evolving while at the same time the ape never changed. That is something I don't get.

What's the problem? If the ape is suited for his environment, and if his environment doesn't change, the ape won't change either. Ditto for sharks. Ditto for allegators. There's no law that says every species must change into something else.

[VRWC_minion]

What's the problem? If the ape is suited for his environment, and if his environment doesn't change, the ape won't change either.

Well maybe I am making an assumption but I figured that the ape experienced the same environment changes as man did and I would have expected at least some changes over the same time period. I also thought that man and ape had about the same abilities at one time. When man changed so many times while the ape never changed I find that confusing.