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HalfMooner
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This is from an article at CNN.com. Ancient footprints very similar to modern ones have been discovered in Kenya: (CNN) -- Ancient footprints discovered in northern Kenya are believed to be the oldest sign that early humans had feet like ours.
The footprints were found in two sedimentary layers, 1.5 million years old, near Ileret in the eastern African nation.
"These rarest of impressions yielded information about soft tissue form and structure not normally accessible in fossilized bones. The Ileret footprints constitute the oldest evidence of an essentially modern human-like foot anatomy," according to a team of anthropologists who detailed the discovery in the February 27 issue of the journal Science. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/27/2009 05:34:49
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/27/2009 : 06:49:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
This is from an article at CNN.com. Ancient footprints very similar to modern ones have been discovered in Kenya: (CNN) -- Ancient footprints discovered in northern Kenya are believed to be the oldest sign that early humans had feet like ours.
The footprints were found in two sedimentary layers, 1.5 million years old, near Ileret in the eastern African nation.
"These rarest of impressions yielded information about soft tissue form and structure not normally accessible in fossilized bones. The Ileret footprints constitute the oldest evidence of an essentially modern human-like foot anatomy," according to a team of anthropologists who detailed the discovery in the February 27 issue of the journal Science. |
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What? No dinosaur tracks beside them? How can that be? 
Good article, 'mooner. Thanks!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 02/27/2009 : 07:11:37 [Permalink]
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The reason we never see dinosaur and human tracks together before the Fall is that humans would always be riding any available dinos.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/27/2009 : 09:27:14 [Permalink]
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More, with pix of the footprints, from PZ Myers.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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the_ignored
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Posted - 02/27/2009 : 09:37:22 [Permalink]
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You just know how Answers in Genesis is going to spin this, don't you?
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 02/27/2009 : 20:29:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by the_ignored
You just know how Answers in Genesis is going to spin this, don't you? |
You mean, twist it? That question would make a fine poll here.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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MarcesBlack
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Posted - 03/11/2009 : 07:32:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by the_ignored
You just know how Answers in Genesis is going to spin this, don't you? |
You mean, twist it? That question would make a fine poll here.
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Haha no poll necessary, obviously the footprint isnt human its "human-like" therefore it must have just been one of gods' prototype purple people. Thank god for creating the OEOHFPPE (One eyed one horned flying purple people eater) shortly afterward and then promptly smashing it with a giant garden which he put the v2 of mankind |
How long will emotion control reason in the weak minded? |
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Simon
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Posted - 03/11/2009 : 07:52:28 [Permalink]
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In fact, in this case, I'd expect the cretintionist spin to be even simpler: 'It is a modern human's footprint'.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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the_ignored
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Posted - 03/11/2009 : 09:57:37 [Permalink]
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The Panda's Thumb people have already taken that into account.
| Answers in Genesis, of course, was delighted to report on this, claiming that it confirmed their belief that Homo erectus was a modern human (never mind the more primitive features of pelvis, shoulder and skull found in Homo erectus). So did the Institute for Creation Research. But AIG and ICR carefully avoided mentioning information from the paper that did not fit with their agenda. |
Just check out the Panda's Thumb link; they go into more detail.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
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1992 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2009 : 10:05:04 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, the behaviours of creationists are as easily predicted as that of drunken rabbits in a rodent bordello. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Modern-type footprints 1.5 million years old found
