http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060920/sc_nm/ethiopia_fossil_dc;_ylt=AunTaf_emshb25MgVqzzpxgDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDhxNDFzBHNlYwNtZW5ld3M-
2006-09-20 07:38:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and yet somehow the world is only 10000 years old...
it won't end it.
I've heard both ways Shadowgirl, so I said 10,000, because it's inclusive.
2006-09-20 07:40:16 · answer #1 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate to quibble and am not on either side of this debate but I have to wonder how these scientists know it is a girl? This when Modern anthropologist have a very hard time determining the sex with a complete skeleton only a couple of years old. And have been proved wrong repeatedly in solved homicide cases where they were looking for a missing girl and it turned out to be really a boy.
Based on that alone I question their findings.
Update:
After looking at the pictures Reuters provided and a diagram of the "full skeleton" found I have even more doubt. The most important parts and over half are missing.
This "child" has some pretty advanced gum disease and adult looking teeth. I would like to know how they determined Child.
I think they have found a 3.3 million year old, adult, ancestor of a Chimp at this point.
Just thought of something, If it is a chimp that bolsters the design theory rather than the evolution theory. Sorry Creation, it is not working either way for you.
2006-09-20 14:58:09 · answer #2 · answered by Gone Rogue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What does it prove? It is not being heralded as the fabled "Missing Link." Just another hominid, exciting of course, but not hardly proof of anything. Early hominids became extinct (our species may have killed them off).
If early Man ever 'cross-bred' with any other hominid species--for which there is no evidence, the off-spring would be a hybrid. Hybrids, according to science, are always born sterile.
To those who say we share (take your pick) 90, 98, 99, 99.9% DNA with chimps I pose the following question:
"Why are you surprised? All earthly creatures were Created in a sealed environment--that eco-sphere we know as the Earth from the same building blocks found only here on Earth."
H
2006-09-20 14:55:05 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There was already a solid mountain of evidence behind evolution before this discovery. I don't believe that one more bit of fossil evidence will make much of a difference. My skeptical side is reserving judgment of this find for the moment... I really hope that this doesn't turn out to be another Piltdown Man. I don't think it will, but you have to entertain the possibility. Go evolution!
2006-09-20 15:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why? It's just one more fossile. It changes nothing. Why would it end anything? Either YHWH God created the world in phases as described in the Bible, or the great god Chance didit by switching unbelievably long odds into something that actually could happen. The debate is meaningless.
2006-09-20 14:53:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, unfortunately.
No matter how much evidence you place in front of some people, they can’t be convinced. They rather go by a text that has been misinterpreted, poorly translated and changed over the years to suit political agendas.
2006-09-20 14:54:34 · answer #6 · answered by Celt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. It just adds to the repository of known facts which point to evolution as a correct theory.
2006-09-20 14:42:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This TIRED debate has been over for a long time as far as I am concerned. Will it stop others from bickering on? No.
2006-09-20 14:40:46 · answer #8 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To not believe in evolution, one of two things are happening: 1. You reject science and believe religion is right, science is wrong. 2. You aren't educated on the science behind evolution.
Either way, this isn't going to change their mind.
2006-09-21 12:33:03 · answer #9 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. But this does,
http://christiananswers.net/creation/aqoo/home.html
2006-09-20 14:41:25 · answer #10 · answered by firebyknight 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋