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To: The Loan Arranger

evolution is a religion more than a science


10 posted on 11/05/2004 11:04:38 PM PST by GeronL (Congratulations Bush on your re-election VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: GeronL

Gotta love crevo threads..


11 posted on 11/05/2004 11:16:28 PM PST by cwd26
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To: GeronL
evolution is a religion more than a science

Ironically, being a religion is supposed to be a slam at evolution! LOL!

In fine creationist fashion, the author throws out facts - some of which aren't accurate - and tries to weave them together into a vague tapestry of incriminating innuendoes.

Just one example before beddybye time:

Now add the recent finding of Flores man. He contains a jumble of features that appear borrowed from extinct primitive man. Yet he lived crossing timelines with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. If previous timelines are to be believed, this indicates dramatic changes in DNA and creation of a new species rather recently – not millions of years ago.

H. floriensis is a pygmy variety of either H. erectus, or of a transitional between H. erectus & H. sapiens. There's no problem fitting it into the standard timeline.

There is NO WAY that this is a skull of a standard H. sapiens (right). But Homo erectus, as the Turkana Boy skull on the left? Yeah, easily. Notice the remnant of a saggital crest (ridge at the top of the skull going from front-to-back), and the lack of our large prefrontal cortex (bulging forehead):

  

See Pharyngula for some more beautiful head shots.

BTW, there are tantalizing indications that H. floriensis may have survived well past the eruption of 12,000 years ago:

What's more, folklore evidence, which has been gathered by the researchers on the same island, provides the remarkable suggestion that H. floresiensis may have survived until at least 150 years ago. And zoological evidence from another Indonesian island, Sumatra, suggests that a potentially similar intelligent bipedal species may still be alive and well and living in a remote jungle area.

The local tradition for H. floresiensis is potentially significant. Villagers in Flores say that up until around 150 years ago, there were small, three-foot-tall hairy "people" who used to steal food from them. Known as the ebu gogos (literally "the grandmothers who eat anything"), they were tolerated by islanders until they stole a baby and ate it. Whether the ebu gogo is pure myth or an accurate recollection of H. floresiensis is at present unprovable. "The folklore material raises the real possibility that H. floresiensis actually survived until sometime in the nineteenth century," said excavation member Bert Roberts, a geochronologist at the University of Wollongong who conducted interviews with the villagers earlier this month. "Indeed, there has to be a remote possibility that they still survive today in some remote jungle area of the island."

That would be WAY COOL!
15 posted on 11/06/2004 12:18:36 AM PST by jennyp (It was a dark and stormy night and the world was in crisis. As usual.)
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