[far sider]

That was fast. Usually it takes months for these new "hominids" to be revealed as bogus. The Ramapithicus/Sivapithicus debacle of the 80s comes to mind. A new "human ancestor" was found (so-called Sivapithicus) which a year later was conclusively shown to be an extinct species of orangutan (ramapithicus).

Evolutionists are such sheeple.

[whattajoke]

What the hell are you talking about? If anything, this story shows that evolutionists (ONCE AGAIN) test their theories, publish them in peer reviewed journals, and are subject to questions and more testing! That would make them the opposite of "sheeple."

Unlike your (I'm supposing here, but fairly so) childish creationism fairy tale which has yet to have a single theory tested, published in a peer review journal, or subjected to questions or more testing.

this "debate" is an embarrassment to me as a conservative American. I'd like to know when being a Conservative meant abandoning science. Ugh.

sorry for my anger, but these threads always fire me up.

[r9etb]

That was fast. Usually it takes months for these new "hominids" to be revealed as bogus.

It depends on whose ox is being gored. In this case Mr. Brunet was challenging the status quo. In the case of Sivapithicus, it served the status quo IIRC, and was thus accepted without much question.

[onedoug]

Then, given stratigraphic superposition, and cross-cutting relationships, with no human fossils detected as early, these hominids preceded Man's appearence.

[aruanan]

Remember when the gracilis and robustus species of Australopithecus became female and male of a single species? And then later gracilis was said to have given rise to both robustus and afarensis?