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Do scientists believe in unicorns?

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Extraneous

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The unicorn, whether is was a real animal or not, is still only symbolic regardless of what it was. IT may refer to a type of cow or steer, or something similar, but regardless even that is just symbolic of its true meaning.

1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh[c] of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead.
 
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Because it is proven to be very, very unreliable at best.
You have Google, so you can look up "Lucy hoax".
I did. All I got was some weirdo's writing nonsense on the Net. Millions of weirdo's around. Doesn't mean anything. Any weirdo can write anything on the Net.

You still didn't write anything about why you, personally, could explain in your own words why you think that Lucy is a hoax?
 
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I did. All I got was some weirdo's writing nonsense on the Net. Millions of weirdo's around. Doesn't mean anything. Any weirdo can write anything on the Net.

You still didn't write anything about why you, personally, could explain in your own words why you think that Lucy is a hoax?

He doesnt need to, because in your heart you already know its a hoax, you wont admit it however, and you will debate for the next year about it, before ever admitting it.
 
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Really? Could you explain in your own words why you think that Lucy is a hoax?
I see you edited your post.
It's incomplete and it's not even all from the same ape.
The famous artists rendition is fantasy.
But you don't want to know this, so why do you ask?
 
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He doesnt need to, because in your heart you already know its a hoax
Well, I can't speak for Derek, but personally, my heart has no capacity for knowledge. My head does, and it tells me that Lucy was not a hoax.

Perhaps we should all try to think with our heads a little more often....
 
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So does that make Australopithecus afarensis a hoax or is it just the Lucy skeleton?

How does the fact that it's incomplete make it a hoax?

It's quite a bold statement you're making accusing respected scientists etc of lying, I'm curious as to what extent you've studied the bones and in what way you're qualified to dispute their findings.
 
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My head does, and it tells me that Lucy was not a hoax.
Lucy is touted as some kind of nested thing somewhere between ape and man when, in reality, Lucy was a human being that was punished by one of God's "wonderful plagues" that altered her bone structure.

Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Kind David would probably have been mistaken for a Cro-magnon or Neanderthal at his death (Psalm 38).

Imagine if they dug up his bones today?
 
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Lucy is touted as some kind of nested thing somewhere between ape and man when, in reality, Lucy was a human being that was punished by one of God's "wonderful plagues" that altered her bone structure.

Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Kind David would probably have been mistaken for a Cro-magnon or Neanderthal at his death (Psalm 38).

Imagine if they dug up his bones today?

You mean like the Elephant man?
 
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I just had a read through that Psalm AV, I'm not following you.
Psalm 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.


Note: After looking at pics of Cro-magnon and Neanderthal, I see I'll have to come up with another species, as they walked upright.

Maybe scientists would give him is own classification.

Like: Homothisthing haroldcookii.
 
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Well, I can't speak for Derek, but personally, my heart has no capacity for knowledge. My head does, and it tells me that Lucy was not a hoax.

Perhaps we should all try to think with our heads a little more often....

You know that everyone, Christians and Atheists both, are vulnerable to denial.
 
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You mean like the Elephant man?
No.

I mean those things they dig up and copy-and-paste together until it looks like something that walked around dragging its knuckles on the ground ... then calling it a "transitional species."
 
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