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Hobbit Is A New Species
Migraineman writes "Over the last year or so, archaeologists in Indonesia unearthed skulls and bones from eight proto-humanoids. Critics have claimed the meter-tall specimens were either pygmies or "aberrant individuals with a pathological condition" like microcephaly. A recent article in Science[subscription] rebuffs the critics, and claims that the specimens are actually a new species - Homo floresiensis. There's a summary article over at Nature."
In what way does Creationism keep things simpler? It has no explanatory power whatsoever, how could you ever falsify it? It's nothing more than an invokation of magic. Just imagine if every field of inquiry was occupied by a central axiom as glib and useless as that of Creationism.
Creationism isn't simpler in any methodological sense. I imagine for those chained to some sort of religious worldview incapable or unwilling to expand to accept the realities of the physical universe, it's just a lot simpler to invoke the incantation God-did-it.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yeah, all that expecting some evidence and fossil records and such. Yeah, creationists are just wacked. Funny, it used to be scientists who would refrain from jumping to conclusions without the evidence. My how times have changed.