(April 29, 2017 at 12:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

(April 29, 2017 at 4:32 am)Grandizer Wrote: I doubt creationists would have their faith be shattered by such news. Young-earth creationists would just, as usual, question the timeline stated. Nothing new.

Correct.  The truly stupid will pull the customary ostrich act.  That's why they have to be dismissed from the discussion.  Who cares what assholes think?

Posters like Waldork would simply talk circles around it. Fuck, I hope I didn't just summon it.

The narrative is adaptable with a prophet in the mix. As for fucking Jesus you know my divine intermediary. I love my Gwynnies! 

(April 29, 2017 at 12:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Correct.  The truly stupid will pull the customary ostrich act.  That's why they have to be dismissed from the discussion.  Who cares what assholes think?

Assholes. That's who.

"...on the outside looking in ..."

.... Kinda like their god did, eh?

(April 27, 2017 at 4:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Not to mention legions of whining creatards.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/scien...c=rss&_r=0

Quote:Sifting through teaspoons of clay and sand scraped from the floors of caves, German researchers have managed to isolate ancient human DNA — without turning up a single bone.
Their new technique, described in a study published on Thursday in the journal Science, promises to open new avenues of research into human prehistory and was met with excitement by geneticists and archaeologists.
“It’s a bit like discovering that you can extract gold dust from the air,” said Adam Siepel, a population geneticist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Quote:The new study involved searching for ancient DNA in four caves in Eurasia where humans were known to have lived between 14,000 and 550,000 years ago.

550,000 years ago.  Poor jesus.  Fucked again.

What you're saying doesn't even make sense even from a scientific prospective, It is well known that the first humans migrated out of Africa around 60,000 to 100,000 years ago according to researchers. That being the case how could humans have been in Eurasia 550,000 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations

Quote:Homo sapiens seem to have appeared in East Africa around 200,000 years ago. The oldest individuals found left their marks in the Omo remains (195,000 years ago) and the Homo sapiens idaltu (160,000 years ago), that was found at the Middle Awash site in Ethiopia.

http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_4.htm

Quote:Current data suggest that modern humans evolved from archaic humans primarily in East Africa. A 195,000 year old fossil from the Omo 1 site in Ethiopia shows the beginnings of the skull changes that we associate with modern people, including a rounded skull case and possibly a projecting chin. A 160,000 year old skull from the Herto site in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia also seems to be at the early stages of this transition. It had the rounded skull case but retained the large brow ridges of archaic humans. Somewhat more advanced transitional forms have been found at Laetoli in Tanzania dating to about 120,000 years ago. By 115,000 years ago, early modern humans had expanded their range to South Africa and into Southwest Asia (Israel) shortly after 100,000 years ago. There is no reliable evidence of modern humans elsewhere in the Old World until 60,000-40,000 years ago, during a short temperate period in the midst of the last ice age.

*emphasis mine*

There were other species of humans besides H. Sapiens, and, indeed, the article references two of them.

Your reply is rendered a red herring at this point.

Invoking Adam and Eve kind of implies that were speaking of what's classified as modern humans.

(April 29, 2017 at 4:30 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Your reply is rendered a red herring at this point.

How do you figure?

No, the Adam and Eve crack was not setting any sort of scientific context regarding what was found.

That should answer your question regarding your red herring, too.

(April 29, 2017 at 4:58 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: No, the Adam and Eve crack was not setting any sort of scientific context regarding what was found.

That should answer your question regarding your red herring, too.

Then Min should state his point more clearly, because the title of the thread seems to imply the subject is about modern humans.

(April 27, 2017 at 5:22 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: god put it there as a test.

We don't accept your collection techniques.

We don't accept your science methods.

If this were true science would find old DNA all over the place but they don't, therefore not true.

Who said A&E were not 550K years old. You're working with a bad interpretation.

Heard enough?

*emphasis mine*

see?

If Min isn't speaking of modern humans, then the article really isn't saying anything new.

(April 29, 2017 at 4:35 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Invoking Adam and Eve kind of implies that were speaking of what's classified as modern humans.

Sorry, but even I knew this wasn't about homo sapiens. Regardless, you should've done a bit of research before you decided to submit that post.