Link Yet more proof, like we need anymore, that the earth is more than 10,000 years old as the bible states.
In all seriousness, I'm interested in stories like this. Here's one thought that probably won't be popular... I wouldn't be far off, would I, if I assumed that about 2 days before this article came out, science would be "almost unanimous" in their belief that we evolved from chimps, right? I mean, that was what was in my college biology book. And now with the Ardi find it's turned upside-down, with chimps being an offshoot not in line with the evolution from ardi to human. Fun stuff, though.
As I understand it, the fossils were found between two volcanic rock layers that both dated to 4.4M years ago. But yes, perhaps God stuck that fossil in between those rocks. Kind of makes me think God was hiding something. Is God a serial killer? barfo
You wouldn't be far off at all. But, now that we have new evidence, we can revise our theories. That's the thing about science - it doesn't actually matter what was written in some biology textbook 2000 years ago. If it turns out to be wrong, we throw it away and move on, instead of inventing ever-more-fanciful reasons to keep reading the same old textbook. barfo
no college biology book would ever say "we evolved from chimps". that's a creationist straw man. science has always said humans and chimps branched and evolved separately from a common ape-like ancestor. the exact point where the branch occurred and the nature of our most recent common ancestor has always been an open question, waiting to be resolved by future evidence such as this.
sorry...in my tongue-in-cheek mode I oversimplified. Instead of saying "we evolved from chimps", I should've used what the OP quote had...that we evolved from "chimp-like creatures". I retract and resubmit. Now, as far as biology books saying we evolved from chimp-like creatures? I'll give you a chance to tell me if that's a creationist straw man.
Why is that incorrect? Any creature we evolved from is probably more chimp-like than anything else (other than human-like) that still exists. I don't think that the recent find alters that. How LIKE a chimp our shared ancestors were is of course perhaps shifted. Ed O.
BlazerWookee is why the government suppressed the creation of a time machine, he kept wanting to go back 4.4 million years. YUK
