My bad

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Cool find. Darwinism has evolved since Darwin's time as much as man did in 10 million years. Go back far enough tho and we all came from a slimy pool of oooz.

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my favorite threads on uspol have got to be the anti-evolution threads.

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not me, that sort of ignorance makes me nauseous.

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Which sort is that ?

I guess it depends on what you believe doesn't it

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yes and as I said then pretty much what has passed for theory as to our ascendancy and descendency has to be rediscovered or re-theorized? That’s a lot of water under the bridge.

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It's actually that by and large, most people who don't believe in evolution also don't understand evolutionary theory for beans.

It's like an atheist saying that he doesn't believe in the Krishna and Shiva when arguing with a Christian about whether or not God exists.

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That's why they call it theory, because it is understood that it can change with new facts. This just sheds light on an area where there was a lot of theory and very little evidence, now there is a lot more evidence so the theory will fill in around it.

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People who don't (or choose not to) understand evolution theory, choose to believe mythical stories told by men ages ago.

You can understand evolution and have faith at the same time by reasoning with interpretation. e.g. God made earth in seven days right? well if seven days for us is seven weeks for a dog, maybe seven billion years for us is seven days to God. We just would't be able to understand this four thousand years ago.

they say God made woman from Adam’s rib or some nonsense like that. Why is it such a stretch that that description is really our inability to understand more complex or detailed explanations thousands of years ago, like evolution or how DNA works.

Why is it a stretch that evolution is the tool God used to make man? however poorly or inaccurately we tried to understand that many thousands of years ago? I believe the closer we come to understanding the facts about science and ourselves, the closer we come to understanding God.

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From apes, not monkeys. Species do not all transform from one to another either. All the members of species A do not wake up one morning and decide "okay fellas time to be species B".

No, that is not why it's called a theory. A theory is an explanation of a set of related observations or events based upon hypotheses and verifications.

Kind of a losing battle then. What I assume we had hoped to find in any and designate a missing link would be a mutated half ape- half man, or as close to one as we could discern where in one could clearly state, here ya go its just enough ape to mark our progeny and just enough of man we have come to understand as such and here we are.

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What losing battle? The evidence that there were more animals on earth then there are now (evidently from different eras) and some of them may be related to us doesn't strike me as a losing battle.

Australopithecus (Lucy and her kin) is so close to ape it's an ape-man. Ardipithecus ramidus (Ardi) is more information another progenitor or contemporary proto-human species. Evolution doesn't walk down just one road. If Ardi isn't an ancestor it shows evidence of evolutionary pressures bringing similar species into existence. If Ardi is an ancestor the family tree has gotten a lot more data to work with. It's a winning battle.

I believe he was makin' a funny.

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I'm not sure what would have to be re-theorized. Darwin himself suggested apes and monkeys and humans probably descended from a common ancestor. 100 years later it was proven that chimps and humans share 99% of their DNA code (indicating chimps and humans diverged from a common line more recently, and apes diverged further back in time).

There were lots of other branches from that tree, including CroMagnon, Neanderthal, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, etc. (<--- going from memory so its possible information on these has changed)

150 years after Darwin, the recent skeleton that is the topic of this post is a likely candidate for that common ancestor between chimps and humans, possibly even apes.