Slashdot Mirror
Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey
Hugh Pickens writes "According to noted paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, sometime in the next 15 to 30 years scientific discoveries about evolution will have accelerated to the point that 'even the skeptics can accept it.' 'If you don't like the word evolution, I don't care what you call it, but life has changed. You can lay out all the fossils that have been collected and establish lineages that even a fool could work up. So the question is why, how does this happen? It's not covered by Genesis. There's no explanation for this change going back 500 million years in any book I've read from the lips of any God.' Leakey began his work searching for fossils in the mid-1960s and his team unearthed a nearly complete 1.6-million-year-old skeleton in 1984 that became known as 'Turkana Boy,' the first known early human with long legs, short arms and a tall stature. At 67, Leakey conducts research with his wife, Meave, and daughter, Louise, and the family claims to have unearthed 'much of the existing fossil evidence for human evolution.' Leakey, an atheist, insists he has no animosity toward religion."
Satan planted all the fossils and make it look like the Earth was old just to trap the unenlightened.
No sig today...
Agreed. I don't think Dr. Leakey's argument holds water.
So... Leakey is leaky?
Satan continuously changes DNA in bacterial cultures exposed to new environmental challenges.
That wily bastard!
Logic and faith don't really co-mingle well.
Well that's logical, so I can't believe it.
This universe is God's experiment in free will. Some people will show that they give a smurf about overcoming temptation to break from God's purpose. Those who do will be rewarded when the earth is rebuilt; those who do not will be destroyed.
I'm not saying that "gravity" is actually a series of elves pulling us down so we don't float out of the atmosphere, but there is a non-zero chance of it. I don't treat those who believe in that particular notion as crackpots.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
If only there were some explanation for things being written with an intended meaning different than the literal meaning.
Metaphorically speaking, that's a tough nut to crack. Oh well.
FIRST?
Having started involvement with FIRST over a decade ago, I would like to thank you for the OT advertising.
Some people still believe that humans rode dinosaurs to work. No amount of fossil evidence can change that kind of stupid.
Captcha: detest
Nobody believes that. They believe that people *used* dinosaurs at work.
It's well known that ancient people actually rode to work in foot-powered log cars mounted on stone rollers.
A series of elves? Now that's just stupid. Obviously the elves are pulling in parallel.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
And he planted them in coal and oil so that we'd be motivated to find them!
Why what? Why are we here? Evolution. If you're asking for the greater purpose in life, there is none. Our lives are meaningless to everyone and everything in the universe except for each of us.
Congratulations! You just failed self-actualization.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
You are so right...
I rather believe in God: he loves me soooo much. But if i sidestep only a little, there's hell to pay. Forgiving is not his best vice. Neither is his sense of humor.