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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/24/2006 : 21:33:44
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12000319/
Speaks for itself.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2006 : 22:11:51 [Permalink]
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Gotta love those discoveries. Isn't science great?....new finds...add to knowledge data base. Expand the old horizons. Science is just finding out what's there already, right?
Made me think of the movie Quest For Fire. Think I'll watch it this weekend. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2006 : 00:41:44 [Permalink]
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"The skull appeared “to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and the later Homo sapiens"
[cretinist mode]
Fully human!
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2006 : 02:06:32 [Permalink]
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More fuel for the fire, eh? I notice that it hasn't been assigned to any group nor even given a Latin name, or at least none such was mentioned. There must be a lot of study to be done yet.
I wonder what AiG will have to say about it -- oh, wait, Star already called it.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2006 : 12:33:18 [Permalink]
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Yes more evidence for the "Out of Africa" hypothesis over the "Multiregional" hypothesis. At this point I think it's safe to say the latter is dead and can be buried. It shocks the hell out of me that some serious anthropologists still think there's something to Multiregionalism.
We are all the children of Africa!
I once explained this theory of human evolution to my 2nd grade South Korean students. There's a lot of racial prejudice in Korea, and they really don't like dark skin (Most English schools will not hire dark-skinned foreign teachers). Also, there is a myth about the origins of the Korean people that say their ancestors came from the penninsula. Then again, these were educated suburban kids. So I told them about modern humans evolving in Africa, and about how scientists think Korean ancestors came to Korea about 10 thousand years ago, and instead of arguing, they thought that was pretty interesting and weren't offended at all. Ah progress. |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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