physorg.com— The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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"Society and modern medicine has already stunted or halted our natural evolution process."Rubbish. Evolutionary changes are measured over geological timescales - tens of thousands of years. Medical science won't have created even a blip yet.
Evolution doesn't tangle my hair. I've studied it enough to know that it has too many holes be true as it stands. This coming from a former evolutionist and atheist. But as a side note, I didn't discount evolution after I became a Christian. Evolution began to make less sense to me before that.
"The issue is that creationism has never tried to be anything but a belief."What an utterly ridiculous statement. Many creationists insist that the Genesis account is absolute fact, absolute truth. "It's when evolutionist come in and start trying to hammer creationist for their beliefs using this pseudo-science as their ammunition."Oh here it is, the cloak of victimhood the creationists put on. *sniffle* "that bad scientist man told me magic isn't weal!!!" You don't think talking snakes, the earth being created in 6 days, or birds showing up the same time as fish (which is demonstrably false) isn't just a LITTLE bit pseudo-science on your part? You haven't even looked at the evidence, you just knee-jerk into a mode where Evolution is automatically wrong." It's just like "cramming" religion down your throat. Teaching evolution as fact is folly. Just like teaching creation as fact is folly. To a believer, creation is a fact. But it is an unprovable fact just like evolution is an unprovable "fact"."Ahh, and predictibly you demonstrate your lack of knowledge of the terms "theory" and "fact." Facts are tidbits that are collected. If you throw an apple up, it will fall to the ground, that is a fact. Gravity is the theory that explains WHY this fact occurs. Now, scientists are still debating over exactly WHY and HOW gravity makes things behave the way they do, but that doesn't disprove Gravity itself. Evolution is the same way. We see fossils in the rock strata and notice that the deeper one goes, the simpler and smaller they become. The problem with creationists is that they expect the fossil record to be a movie when it is actually a slideshow of the development of life. It is extremely unlikely for something to become fossilized. The conditions have to be JUST right in order for it to happen. But, because the earth has existed for so long, and so many animals have existed as well, many have been fossilized. Creationists seem to expect someone to find a fossil of a triceratops giving birth to a rhinocerous but it just doesn't work that way. The changes throughout each generation are gradual and depend on the environment. That's why it frustrates me that so many creationists don't even bother to learn the first thing about evolution and instead just argue against a bizarre caricature of it they dreamt up."Schools didn't teach creation as a fact but a belief, now they are required in some states to teach another belief as FACT instead of just another belief. And when you start teaching our children something as fact when it clearly isn't fact (yet) is folly no matter what the subject matter is."More talking out of your ass. Creation was absolutely taught as fact, so quit spreading lies. The truth is not up to debate. 2 + 2=4 is not "just a belief, man." Facts are not determined by popular vote. Again, you obviously don't know what theory and fact mean. Evolution is the explanation of the facts, just like gravity.
matriSep 21, 2007
I think we'd turn back into apes.Think about it: Look at all the big, burly guys with massive amounts of body hair and zero civilized manners.
covertbadgerSep 21, 2007
"Society and modern medicine has already stunted or halted our natural evolution process."Rubbish. Evolutionary changes are measured over geological timescales - tens of thousands of years. Medical science won't have created even a blip yet.
sardiskanSep 21, 2007
@norman619 Even scriptures say that "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day to God".
sardiskanSep 21, 2007
Evolution doesn't tangle my hair. I've studied it enough to know that it has too many holes be true as it stands. This coming from a former evolutionist and atheist. But as a side note, I didn't discount evolution after I became a Christian. Evolution began to make less sense to me before that.
brstilsonSep 21, 2007
"The issue is that creationism has never tried to be anything but a belief."What an utterly ridiculous statement. Many creationists insist that the Genesis account is absolute fact, absolute truth. "It's when evolutionist come in and start trying to hammer creationist for their beliefs using this pseudo-science as their ammunition."Oh here it is, the cloak of victimhood the creationists put on. *sniffle* "that bad scientist man told me magic isn't weal!!!" You don't think talking snakes, the earth being created in 6 days, or birds showing up the same time as fish (which is demonstrably false) isn't just a LITTLE bit pseudo-science on your part? You haven't even looked at the evidence, you just knee-jerk into a mode where Evolution is automatically wrong." It's just like "cramming" religion down your throat. Teaching evolution as fact is folly. Just like teaching creation as fact is folly. To a believer, creation is a fact. But it is an unprovable fact just like evolution is an unprovable "fact"."Ahh, and predictibly you demonstrate your lack of knowledge of the terms "theory" and "fact." Facts are tidbits that are collected. If you throw an apple up, it will fall to the ground, that is a fact. Gravity is the theory that explains WHY this fact occurs. Now, scientists are still debating over exactly WHY and HOW gravity makes things behave the way they do, but that doesn't disprove Gravity itself. Evolution is the same way. We see fossils in the rock strata and notice that the deeper one goes, the simpler and smaller they become. The problem with creationists is that they expect the fossil record to be a movie when it is actually a slideshow of the development of life. It is extremely unlikely for something to become fossilized. The conditions have to be JUST right in order for it to happen. But, because the earth has existed for so long, and so many animals have existed as well, many have been fossilized. Creationists seem to expect someone to find a fossil of a triceratops giving birth to a rhinocerous but it just doesn't work that way. The changes throughout each generation are gradual and depend on the environment. That's why it frustrates me that so many creationists don't even bother to learn the first thing about evolution and instead just argue against a bizarre caricature of it they dreamt up."Schools didn't teach creation as a fact but a belief, now they are required in some states to teach another belief as FACT instead of just another belief. And when you start teaching our children something as fact when it clearly isn't fact (yet) is folly no matter what the subject matter is."More talking out of your ass. Creation was absolutely taught as fact, so quit spreading lies. The truth is not up to debate. 2 + 2=4 is not "just a belief, man." Facts are not determined by popular vote. Again, you obviously don't know what theory and fact mean. Evolution is the explanation of the facts, just like gravity.
slurbaOct 26, 2007
In case you haven't noticed, circles aren't the same things as geiods.