Oh No, Churchers Unite Agaisnt This Blasphemy

[polsongrizz]

Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution


This image released by the journal Science shows the right hand skeleton of the adult female Australopithecus sediba against a modern human hand. A detailed analysis of 2 million-year-old bones found in South Africa offers the most powerful case so far in identifying the transitional figure that came before modern humans, findings some are calling a potential game-changer in understanding evolution. The hand, seen in a palmar view, lacks three wrist bones and four terminal phalanges, but is otherwise complete. (AP Photo/Peter Schmid, courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand)View Gallery


A startling mix of human and primitive traits found in the brains, hips, feet and hands of an extinct species identified last year make a strong case for it being the immediate ancestor to the human lineage, scientists have announced.

These new findings could rewrite long-standing theories about the precise steps human evolution took, they added, including the notion that early human female hips changed shape to accommodate larger-brained offspring. There is also new evidence suggesting that this species had the hands of a toolmaker.

Fossils of the extinct hominid known as Australopithecus sediba were accidentally discovered by the 9-year-old son of a scientist in the remains of a cave in South Africa in 2008, findings detailed by researchers last year. Australopithecus means "southern ape," and is a group that includes the iconic fossil Lucy, while sediba means "wellspring" in the South African language Sotho. [See images of human ancestor]

Two key specimens were discovered — a juvenile male as developed as a 10- to 13-year-old human and an adult female maybe in her late 20s or early 30s. The species is both a hominid and a hominin — hominids include humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and their extinct ancestors, while hominins include those species after Homo, the human lineage, split from that of chimpanzees.

To begin to see where Au. sediba might fit on the family tree, researchers pinned down the age of the fossils by dating the calcified sediments surrounding them with advanced uranium-lead dating techniques and a method called paleomagnetic dating, which measures how many times the Earth's magnetic field has reversed. They discovered the fossils were approximately 1.977 million years old, which predates the earliest appearances of traits specific to the human lineage Homo in the fossil record. This places Au. sediba in roughly the same age category as hominids such as Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis, which were thought to be potential ancestors to Homo erectus, the earliest undisputed predecessor of modern humans.

http://news.yahoo.com/closest-human-anc ... 06435.html

[polsongrizz]

Oh yeah, go perry and intelligent Design, dump evolution from the history books in texass. Do they even teach history down there anymore....

[hank scorpio]

Blasphemy!

[89Hen]

Pols must have been on the atheist boards late last night roasting Perry. He's full of venom towards religion this afternoon.

[D1B]

Christians and the rest of the religious

PG, don't you know Jesus created monkeys because he wanted them to turn into humans so he could die for their sins.

[D1B]

Pols must have been on the atheist boards late last night roasting Perry. He's full of venom towards religion this afternoon.

Jesus evolved from gorillas.

[andy7171]

there's a theory that people came from gorillas?

[Grizalltheway]

there's a theory that people came from gorillas?

Just O-linemen.

[andy7171]

there's a theory that people came from gorillas?

Just O-linemen.

well played!

[Ivytalk]

Cute little bugger. Ran him through genealogy.com and discovered he's my 5th cousin, 80,000 times removed!

[grizzaholic]

there's a theory that people came from gorillas?

[D1B]

there's a theory that people came from gorillas?

Nope, just Jesus, Tubby Flatfoot.

[polsongrizz]

Pols must have been on the atheist boards late last night roasting Perry. He's full of venom towards religion this afternoon.

There's atheist boards? From what I understand there is now a hell and it is in texass, so no roasting on my part is needed.

[BlueHen86]

The earth is 5000 years old. Australopithecus sediba is just another term for leper. They disappeared when Jesus cured them all.

[D1B]

The earth is 5000 years old. Australopithecus sediba is just another term for leper. They disappeared when Jesus cured them all.

[CID1990]

Heck, we have transitional species walking among us right now!

Just look at D and his mom.

[D1B]

Heck, we have transitional species walking among us right now!

Just look at D and his mom.

Still smarting over that hilarious ass whipping I gave you a couple months ago?

BTW, the "mom" thing is old and overused, unless I use it.
Unlike you, a meaningless shit chunk here, I've earned the privilege of saying anything I want and garnering the universal admiration of all posters here.

[Gil Dobie]

I guess these churches don't follow National Geographic, it's been a year since this find. I have no problem with evolution, and I have no problem with people believing in religion. People that attack evolution or attack religion, have other issues.

[D1B]

I guess these churches don't follow National Geographic, it's been a year since this find. I have no problem with evolution, and I have no problem with people believing in religion. People that attack evolution or attack religion, have other issues.

Uh, bullshit Gil. Evolution doesn't drive planes into buildings, start wars, condemn a majority of the world's population to eternity in hell and make people feel sick or unworthy of happiness.

Religion, SHOULD be attacked. It's our duty, as compassionate humans, to attack it at every turn.

[89Hen]

Religion, SHOULD be attacked. It's our duty, as compassionate humans, to attack it at every turn.

You're one funny dude.

[Gil Dobie]

I guess these churches don't follow National Geographic, it's been a year since this find. I have no problem with evolution, and I have no problem with people believing in religion. People that attack evolution or attack religion, have other issues.

Uh, bullshit Gil. Evolution doesn't drive planes into buildings, start wars, condemn a majority of the world's population to eternity in hell and make people feel sick or unworthy of happiness.

Religion, SHOULD be attacked. It's our duty, as compassionate humans, to attack it at every turn.

You have issues

[D1B]

Religion, SHOULD be attacked. It's our duty, as compassionate humans, to attack it at every turn.

You're one funny dude.

You're one delusional dude. Hen, your church, YOUR fucking church would still be murdering people for not being catholic if no one attacked your religion.

SMFH at fucks who conveniently ignore the barbarous roots of their faith and fail to understand that all religion was invented by man.

"And the worst excuse ever invented for the exertion of power by one primate over another is the claim that certain primates have God on their side. It is not only justifiable to be impatient and contemptuous when such tyrannies are proposed; it's more like a duty."

Hitchens 2009

[89Hen]

Hitchens 2009

[D1B]

Uh, bullshit Gil. Evolution doesn't drive planes into buildings, start wars, condemn a majority of the world's population to eternity in hell and make people feel sick or unworthy of happiness.

Religion, SHOULD be attacked. It's our duty, as compassionate humans, to attack it at every turn.

You have issues

So what Gil, everyone does.

Your religion is still fucked. Next.

[D1B]

Hitchens 2009

"Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock'"

Hitch