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Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 3:32 pm
The fundies will be shitting bricks.
http://news.yahoo.com/game-changer-evolu...25430.html
Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both apelike and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution's first major step toward modern humans — findings some are calling a potential game-changer.
An analysis of the bones found in South Africa suggests Australopithecus sediba is the most likely candidate to be the ancestor of humans, said lead researcher Lee R. Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
The fossils, belonging to a male child and an adult female, show a novel combination of features, almost as though nature were experimenting. Some resemble pre-human creatures while others suggest the genus Homo, which includes Homo sapiens, modern people.
"It's as if evolution is caught in one vital moment, a stop-action snapshot of evolution in action," said Richard Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution.
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Nice one.
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 3:51 pm
The fundies will still claim " goddidit " somehow!
 A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 3:54 pm
I predict a volley of tired claims about the inaccuracy of Carbon-14 dating.
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Fundies will be too busy screaming, "Where's the missing link?" to notice.
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 4:05 pm
(September 8, 2011 at 3:51 pm)bozo Wrote: The fundies will still claim " goddidit " somehow!
Yep.
![[Image: goddidit.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i4.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy108%2Frschilla%2Fgoddidit.jpg)
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 10:32 pm
(September 8, 2011 at 4:00 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Fundies will be too busy screaming, "Where's the missing link?" to notice.
Guess we have to go find the missing link between this one and the one before now. Revolving door arguments.
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 10:55 pm
We could discover every single evolutionary step and they would still cry, "Where's the missing link?"
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 8, 2011 at 11:03 pm
(September 8, 2011 at 10:55 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: We could discover every single evolutionary step and they would still cry, "Where's the missing link?"
They should look in a mirror.
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RE: Watch Where You Step, Folks
September 9, 2011 at 12:54 am
Yeah!! 1.98million years.(-/+ 3000) came in on my news feed today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/scienc...ted=2&_r=1
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