On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > >>We still have a huge gap between all these fossils and the current humanoid. >>I still go with the Annunaki being our creators over God and evolution. > > Homo Erectus (get yr minds out of the gutter), through Homo Sapiens we know > the paths very well. The issue is the paucity from 3 to 1.5 million years > ago. "Lucy", ramepithecus and now this find are very suggestive, but the > fossil evidence is just too sparse right now. But considering the data > supporting the competing theories, its rock solid. >
I'd argue that the new fossil (which is from 1.977 million years ago) doesn't highlight the paucity of data but rather the opposite: we have a bunch of finds from the time period but there seems to have been an incredible explosion of diversity and we don't know which lines died off and which ones recombined and which ones survived. It really highlights the way in which evolution actually works. It isn't a smooth, linear process. There are fits and starts, explosions of diversity, sudden die offs, inbreeding, migration, random noise and outliers within generations and species, genetic drift, changing selective conditions...it's messy. People want to see a nice little smooth graph that shows Species A begat Species B begat Species C on up to H. Sapiens just like the family lineages in the Bible. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work that way and we won't ever have complete information or anything close. The nice thing is that the fossil record actually behaves a lot like evolutionary theory says it ought to look. So that gives me confidence. It may not give other people what they would like to see but that's really their problem. Cheers, Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:342428 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
