Posted on 08/09/2017 1:54:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
They determined Helen Thomas' age by checking her driver's license.
I thought about these animals too, but I didn’t know the name.
Definitely looks nocturnal.
And how they know that’s 13 million years old? Was it stamped?
They mention volcanic ash associated with the strata in which the skull was found. There are a couple of very accurate radiometric procedures that are used in that situation. They are dating the volcanic ash surrounding the skull.
“including common ancestors of both modern apes and humans. “
Liberals: simpletons.
We look like apes because we both have arms and legs so we must be related and we came from apes. Maybe the apes came from us.
Yeah, the missing link climbed off a space ship.
They claim this was from 5-25 million years ago. Yeah,based on what history?
Pelosi? 13 million seems correct.
Fake science.
Similarities are far more than skin deep, they go down to our nearly identical DNAs.
Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is we share common ancestors.
Of course, you may chose a different explanation, but it wouldn't be considered scientific.
“Occam’s Razor says the simplest explanation is we share common ancestors.”
That was a dumb statement. Sharing common ancestors doesn’t mean humans cam from apes as my comment mentions.
Reading comprehension isn’t your strength, is it?
“Of course, you may chose a different explanation, but it wouldn’t be considered scientific.”
ANYTHING I say is every bit as scientific as your opinion.
Sharing DNA does not require common ancestors. If you can’t think of another explanation or two, you’re as dumb as your comment.
Only 13 million years old? Ah come on.
Lemur, thought by some to be the beginning of the humans.
Surely, FRiend, you don't expect to win arguments with insults, do you?
"Humans cam from apes"?
Do we agree on what we mean by either "humans" or "apes"?
If by "apes" you mean large non-human primates alive today, then obviously, we did not come from them.
But if you extend your definition of "apes" to include some creatures represented in fossil records, then we could well have.
CodeToad: "ANYTHING I say is every bit as scientific as your opinion."
No, you're wrong on that because nothing you say is "scientific" unless you take it from a recognized scientific source, which obviously you didn't.
So of course, you're entitled to your own opinions, but not to call them "scientific" unless they genuinely are.
CodeToad: "Sharing DNA does not require common ancestors.
If you can’t think of another explanation or two, you’re as dumb as your comment."
Sure, I can think of many other possible explanations, but none -- zero, zip, nada -- of those other explanations meet standards set for a confirmed natural science theory.
Most of them fall into categories such as religion or unsupported-by-evidence fantasy.
No animal alive today, Lemur or otherwise, could possibly be ancestors of humans.
The question then is: did we have common ancestors?
Both theory and confirming evidence suggest we did.
That's how science works.
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Big eyes, I keep falling for those big eyes...
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