Posted on 01/02/2005 9:41:39 PM PST by bondserv
YEC SPOTREP!
Hobbits are humans?
The famous becomes infamous.
Can you send me a URL for your graphic? Thanks
Just incase you are not on the other list.
This is one Vade uses all of the time to cement his fossil record. Much of it is just cement. :-)
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/images/hominids2.jpg
This is from a quick web search. There is often more than meets the eye than is found in an initial freeper post.
Along with Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Trolls and don't forget Pinocchio from the Clinton/Gore ancestral line.
Thanks for adding more info to the thread.
I am pleased someone has raised this issue; I've been noting it for many years. Considering that genetic drift is a constant process, the transition between species must be a gradual shift. Many people, particularly opponents, seem to conceptualize these abrupt, dramatic transitions which simply aren't what evolution is all about. It is conceivable that a modern Briton and an ancient Roman would be genetically incompatible, and therefore of different species (or at least subspecies).
Granted, there's a compelling reason to deduce that Julius Caesar and Princess Diana were indeed of the same species. That is, groups of humans isolated from each other since long before Julius Caesar's time are nonetheless capable of reproducing with one another, and therefore are of the same species.* There is no plausible reason to think that genetic drift since the 1st century BC Italy to 20th century AD Britain was greater than that from 10,000 BC Siberia or Polynesia.
* please spare us the mules..
Guess what? We're all one species. Maybe a bunch of local variations (races), but--we're all one species!
If you look at the migration patterns, you have diversity of many tens of thousands of years. With this time span, Julius Caesar and Princess Diana are chickenfeed. One species, no question. Before we need to test that they were members of the same species of Homo sapiens, lets see any evidence they were not. Otherwise you are just wasting our time.
And as I posted at the time, Henneberg's "analysis" is so simplistic as to be worthless (but when has that been a problem for the creationists before?):
For Henneberg to say, "well they're in the same extreme size range, they must have been have been the same species", is utterly ludicrous. Not, of course, that that stops "Creation-Evolution Headlines" from using it as "proof" of their misconceptions about biology...The problem is that such a "weights and heights" measure is an extremely simplistic measure. Just because there are modern humans who are midgets, that doesn't mean that an Australopithecus would be taken for a "normal" modern human if one were to be brought to the present using a time machine. You'd still freak out if you saw one walk into the 7-11.
I don't know *any* modern humans who look even remotely like *this*:
Massive brow ridge, *NO* forehead, a braincase you could wrap your hand around like a football, a prominent protruding muzzle, small close-set eyes, jawbone larger than the braincase, etc. etc. Compare to the proportions and angles of a modern human skull:
Modern humans belong to the same species as the Neanderthals(otherwise known as the French)?!! Oh no!!!!!
"Other authorities hailed Prof Henneberg's findings as a much-needed reality check. 'Clearly there is a need to be more aware of the possibility of variation - but that is not the inclination today,' said Geoffrey Harrison, emeritus professor of biological anthropology at the University of Oxford. 'It has been a problem because the discoverers have usually put so much effort into finding the evidence, so they want it to be important'."
"Professor Chris Stringer, a leading expert on human fossils at the Natural History Museum, London, said even Neanderthals were not significantly different in skull or body size from modern humans. However, he added that they do differ in other details, such as inner ear bones."
One of the largest landmasses on Planet Earth is currently unexplorable - Antarcia.
There is no foundation for life evolving from Africa. There is every reason to believe life evolved on Antarica and Antarica is the source of dispersal.
Because science cannot investigate does not support their biased hypothesis.
I am right. They are wrong. Prove me otherwise.
It says human, neanderthals, and australopithecines, not french or liberals.
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