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Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years
E++99 writes in to let us know about a development in paleo-anthropology. It seems that up until now, scientific consensus has placed the divergence of man from the ape line five to six million years ago (based on "genetic distances"). But newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia place the divergence at least twice as far back, and perhaps as long ago as 20 million years. They also largely put to rest any doubts that man and modern apes both emerged from Africa. From the article: "The trail in the hunt for physical evidence of our human ancestors goes cold some six or seven million years ago... Beyond that... fossils of early humans from the Miocene period, 23 to five million years ago, disappear. Fossils of early apes especially during the critical period of 14 to eight million years ago were virtually non-existent — until now... [T]he new fossils, dubbed 'Chororapithecus abyssinicus' by the team of Japanese and Ethiopian paleo-anthropologists who found them, place the early ancestors of the modern day gorilla 10 to 10.5 million years in the past, suggesting that the human-ape split occurred before that."
that this comes right after the story entitled "Attack of the Evil Monkeys From Hell".
in 5... 4... 3...
an ape-like creature making crude and pointless toys out of dinobones and his own waste, hurling them at chimp-like creatures with crinkled hands regardless of how they behaved the previous year. These so-called "toys" were buried as witches, and defecated upon, and hurled at predators when wakened by the searing grunts of children. It wasn't a holly jolly Christmas that year. For many were killed.
Yep, it's cheap and easy to do because the idea that the world is 6000 years old and was greated by a big man in the sky is so stupid.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Don't make a caricature of my faith; we've come a long way. Now we believe that the creator came down in human form to get his shit ruined by us, so that he could forgive us for the symbolic sin of eating some fruit that made us really smart. God didn't actually come down and wrestle with Israel, and he didn't actually make a donkey talk, it was just a symbol. If you can't figure out what a donkey talking symbolizes, well I feel sorry for you and your "logic" based mindset.
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Does it symbolise God talking out of his ass?
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I think it's safe to say choosing a cat as an example was a big mistake. I could link you to hundreds of pictures of cats flying, and I can personally verify my last cat's ability to do so. You could have said spaghetti monsters can fly and started a flame war over the One True FSM, or you could've picked a less agile animal, such as the turtle, but please don't disparage cats by bringing them into this argument.
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- Man was incapable of sin until eating the fruit.
- Man became capable of sin after eating the fruit.
- Man at the fruit while incapable of sin.
- Eating the fruit was a sin.
There's a ??? step I'm missing somewhere... Not only that, but you're missing the most important step... PROFIT!WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
That's what happens when the Chimp's Intelligent Designer licensed his work under the BSD.
Hey! I deeply resent the implication that I am not a direct linear descendant of a clod of dirt that had life breathed into it by a bronze age semitic deity!
But which one?
Yahweh?
Baal?
El?
Lilith?
Pazuzu?
Rodney Dangerfield?
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd