CREATARDS BEWARE - THIS THREAD CONTAINS FACTS

[Minimalist]

not your god shit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/scienc...TE&ei=5043

A Bone Here, a Bead There: On the Trail of Human Origins
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Who are we, and where did we come from? Scientists studying the origin of modern humans, Homo sapiens, keep reaching deeper in time to answer those questions — toward the last common ancestor of great apes and humans, then forward to the emergence of people more and more like us in body and behavior.

Their research is advancing on three fronts. Fossils of skulls and bones expose anatomical changes. Genetics reveals the timing and place of the Eve of modern humans.

And archaeology turns up ancient artifacts reflecting abstract and creative thought, and a growing self-awareness. Just last month, researchers made the startling announcement that Stone Age paintings in Spanish caves were much older than previously thought, from a time when Neanderthals were still alive.

To help make sense of this cascade of new information, a leading authority on modern human evolution — the British paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer — recently sat for an interview in New York that ranged across many recent developments: the evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens; the puzzling extinct species of little people nicknamed the hobbits; and the implications of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinkie finger found in a Siberian cave.

Dr. Stringer, an animated man of 64, is an anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London and a fellow of the Royal Society. But he belies the image of a don: He showed up for our interview wearing a T-shirt and jeans, looking as if he had just come in from the field.

A condensed and edited version of our conversation follows. In it and in a new book, he describes a new wrinkle to the hypothesis of a recent African origin of modern Homo sapiens. His ideas may light up more debate in a contentious science.

Unlike the fucking bible - this book sounds like it will be worth reading.

[Cinjin]

"Without undeniable proof and warehouses full of it, there is no way that I will EVER accept evolution as a legitimate science. Therefore, I shall continue praying to the one true god of the bible and believing in talking snakes, rib women, salt pillar people, talking burning bushes, and all manner of things that can never be proven to have ever even existed." ~ YEC

[Colanth]

Read some of the cretinist comments to the article. Feed them a plate of filet and they'll find the fat and gristle to eat. "For example, Evolution will never be defined without the God factor." Really? Too bad he never evolved past the inanimate stage.

[Angrboda]

"Without undeniable proof and warehouses full of it, there is no way that I will EVER accept evolution as a legitimate science. Therefore, I shall continue praying to the one true god of the bible and believing in talking snakes, rib women, salt pillar people, talking burning bushes, and all manner of things that can never be proven to have ever even existed." ~ YEC

John Loftus has noted, that, for believers to gingerly accept that something might be improbable, you must first prove that it is completely impossible.