Thursday, April 13, 2006

Xinhuanet.com (a chinese news service) had an article on a new find of bones that provide the link between men and apes. The bones are supposed to give us the proof we've been missing for all this time.

"It is fair to say that some species of Ardipithecus gave rise to Australopithecus," Tim White, lead author of the Nature paper and professor at the University of California, Berkley.

We don't need what is fair Tim, fair is a value judgement, determined in our individual minds, we need truth.
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3 comments:

Unknown said...

lol there's a very simple rebuttal to this "search for the missing link." How is it possible that an entire race bottlenecked down to a single creature and then fanned out into 6 billion? If there was a "missing link," they should be all over the place, even if they're a bazillion years old. If we can find fossil evidence of trilobytes and mastadons we should be able to find tons of missing link fossils if they existed. Unless of course the missing link vaporized once they died. :)

Darwin ran into the same problem with his own theory: after lining up similar races to humans so they seemed like a progression, there were MAJOR gaps. Like gaps of millions of years of evolution. For some reason, many people look at this and say, "well I wonder how we evolved then?" Why don't the same people say, "maybe we didn't evolve after all?"

12:38 PM
Anonymous said...

The existing fossil record we have is a tiny, tiny percentage of the types and classification of all the creatures that have occupied this planet. Expecting there to be vast numbers of any particular type of fossil is unreasonable and unscientific.

Not trying to be argumentative here, but people who dismiss evolution because they think it interferes with their faith somehow may be missing the point. Just as in Galileo's day, some adjustments may be needed from the faithful as new truths are discovered. Isn't it said that "God moves in mysterious ways"?

Faith and evolution can certainly co-exist. And trust me, evolution is not going to be "disproved" nor is it going to go away. Just as we didn't fully comprehend nuclear fission just a century ago, we may not fully comprehend evolution for decades or even centuries.

11:28 AM
Ju Blaine said...

As a christian, I don't reject evolution. I think it exists, but it does not go outside of a species. Many sparrows have different characteristics, but they are still sparrows, or at least birds. I don't think that would really change.

3:41 PM

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