3.5 million year old hominid found

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   Mark Knowlesposted 15 years ago

   It appears as though our distant ancestors could walk before growing a large brain pan.
   
   "This new skeleton shows a fully running and walking biped, with most of the adaptations we have"
   
   http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100621/ … 05.html#B1
   
   Interesting - and old.

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      Randy Godwinposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      It is very interesting!  But the world is only 6000 years old, Mark, who are you trying to fool?  No need to answer, they'll probably be along shortly!  LOL!

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         pisean282311posted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Big Man is the third new report of hominid remains in less than a year, which together throw light on hominid development from 4.4 to 1.9 million years ago
         
         wow interesting...

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            Rishy Richposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            But if Jesus is the alpha & omega then how come this half monkey - half human came before him?

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               wildernessposted 15 years agoin reply to this

               Simple!  Big Man is the alpha; the omega came later in "Lucy".  Alpha and Omega was the union, and in between was a special parthenogenesis.
               

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         getitriteposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         
         
         Yep.  Satan put those fossils there to trick humans into believing that God didn't create the earth 6000 years ago.  That Satan is up to his same old deception.  He is such a trickster. !!!

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   Evan G Rogersposted 15 years ago

   I wanted to remind everyone of how "science" works, and point out that this isn't just "another fossil", but that this was another TEST that evolution was put through.
   
   The #1 most uber important part of the Scientific Method is peer review, and the repeated testing that goes along with it.
   
   That being said ANY time a new fossil is found, it is a test that could disprove evolution. All we'd need to do to disprove evolution is find a single (well, probably a few more than a single, at this stage) fossil out of place chronologically or just in the wrong place of the world.
   
   Being that this new fossil fit COMPLETELY and in EVERY way with the evolutionary theory... is evolution a fact?
   
   Not yet! It will never be a fact: just like all theories, it can only ever be a theory; a theory is merely a hypothesis that has yet to be shown incorrect. Just like the theory of gravity, the theory of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, the atomic theory, the germ theory, and every other theory out there, evolution is forever doomed to be "only" a theory. These theories have been thrown through "Meat Grinder"-like testing, and have yet to be shown incorrect.
   
   (being a theory, in science, is big stuff!)
   
   This fossil further reinforced the theory of evolution by simply not being in the wrong area or time.
   
   Good job, Darwin!

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   jondavposted 15 years ago

   I'm glad they found that, i've been looking for my mum for ages.

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   Greek Oneposted 15 years ago

   homonid??
   
   doesn that mean he was gay?

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      Rishy Richposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Dude its Hominid! I know you would be disappointed but we are not talking about Greek Love here!

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         Greek Oneposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         back in the day, when the females looked like this, what did it matter who you slept with??
         
         

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            Rishy Richposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            Well back in those days, the ape males looked like this & Im pretty sure most of them were happy to sleep with those female apes
            
            
            
            
            
            But Im not sure abt the Greek male apes, I think u know that better

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               Greek Oneposted 15 years agoin reply to this

               at that time, Greek males were inveting democracy, science, math etc.. so they didnt have time to worry about sexual matters

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                  Rishy Richposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                  as well as Greek Love

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                     Greek Oneposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                     that just started out as a study in geometery

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   theirishobserver.posted 15 years ago

   Mark - excellent story - just read it - I wonder could some of our political leaders be closer relatives to the new discovery than previously thought

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