As a Native North American, and, as I am certain beyond some type of reasonable doubt, indigenous cultures throughout the world will concede to a single notion independently: "we've always been here"
This discovery gives (in my view of the Grander Scheme of things) a tremendous boost to a theory that life evolved in MANY places throughout the globe independently of each other. I am from the Pacific Northwest and I have heard many oral stories depicting life coming from the water. Sound familiar?
You see, languages WILL change over time...The symbolism remains rock steady. Time can be rendered irrelevant so long as life prevails.
I for one am a firm believer that time is irrelavent, and, that life evolved all over, not out of one place. Just becase one set of data (i.e. human and homin and hominid type) points to a particular place, does it HAVE to be that way?
You tell me what is more likely: God chose one place on earth to seed life and let the natural forces do the rest, i.e. time, environment, et. and the hominid line went abot 12 million years basically unchanged then KA-BAM! Here we are now wondering how so much biodiversity could have evolved so much in so little time. OR The "debris" fell on earth and the hydro carbons substantiated in this find "fraternized" with the world around it and constantly reorganized itself to make the environment around it more habitable, hence we get the definition of evolution.
No matter how one wants to interpret it, it's pretty remarkable.
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As a Native North American, and, as I am certain beyond some type of reasonable doubt, indigenous cultures throughout the world will concede to a single notion independently: "we've always been here" This discovery gives (in my view of the Grander Scheme of things) a tremendous boost to a theory that life evolved in MANY places throughout the globe independently of each other. I am from the Pacific Northwest and I have heard many oral stories depicting life coming from the water. Sound familiar? You see, languages WILL change over time...The symbolism remains rock steady. Time can be rendered irrelevant so long as life prevails. I for one am a firm believer that time is irrelavent, and, that life evolved all over, not out of one place. Just becase one set of data (i.e. human and homin and hominid type) points to a particular place, does it HAVE to be that way? You tell me what is more likely: God chose one place on earth to seed life and let the natural forces do the rest, i.e. time, environment, et. and the hominid line went abot 12 million years basically unchanged then KA-BAM! Here we are now wondering how so much biodiversity could have evolved so much in so little time. OR The "debris" fell on earth and the hydro carbons substantiated in this find "fraternized" with the world around it and constantly reorganized itself to make the environment around it more habitable, hence we get the definition of evolution. No matter how one wants to interpret it, it's pretty remarkable.