Ten Sticks in the Eye for Creationist Morons in 2011

[Minimalist]

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids...s-of-2011/

For this last Hominid Hunting post of 2011, I reviewed recent human evolution research highlights to come up with my picks for the top 10 hominid discoveries of the year. While genetic breakthroughs have hogged the spotlight the past couple of years, good old-fashioned fossil and archaeological finds were front and center in 2011.

[5thHorseman]

Love this part.

9. The Arches of Australopithecus afarensis: There’s no doubt that Lucy and her species, Australopithecus afarensis, walked upright. But the degree to which these hominids walked on the ground has been debated. The discovery of a 3.2-million-year-old foot bone confirmed that Lucy and her kind had arched feet and therefore probably walked much like modern people. The researchers who studied the fossil say it indicates Australopithecus afarensis no longer needed to spend much time in the treetops; however, other researchers disagree, saying hominids at this time were still good tree climbers.

[Whateverist]

I like the fact that our species is called "homo". A bonus stick in the eye to creationists.

[Anomalocaris]

Science, reason, evidence and discovery before creationists is as pearl before swine.

[downbeatplumb]

The researchers who studied the fossil say it indicates Australopithecus afarensis no longer needed to spend much time in the treetops; however, other researchers disagree, saying hominids at this time were still good tree climbers.

Some people arent too bad either, my youngest gets up trees like a spider monkey.

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

Pish Posh.
Don't you guys know? Two hundred and fifty plus years of resesarch, reliable and effective radiological and chemical dating, all of the billions of man hours by people with Ph.Ds and peer-reviewed scientific methodological studies over the course of centuries is all entirely rubbish.
Heed my words and listen - the truth of all space, time, and history is revealed in a poorly written book written from old fables that have been translated multiple times about a man whose existence is only written about in this book and proven through a proven forgery. This man sacrificed himself to himself to alleviate a set of arbitrary rules he created and so he could save us all from an eternal punishment he forces upon us if we act human. After all, ignorant tribesmen who know very little about the world beyond thier ancient homes in the middle east easily invalidate all those years of research by dedicated scientists so listen well for when the imaginary sky daddy releases the windows of the sky dome to initiate the flooding of the global warming scam that's totally not happening and floods the cities because of "they gheys". They know this because it's in the book they wrote.
That proof is far better than this "field work" and "anthropological studies of human history."

Checkmate, Atheists.