Oldest evidence for life found

[Mallon]

This just out today:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/earliestanimal.html

"Fossil traces found in an oil field on the Arabian Peninsula are the oldest evidence yet of animals, pushing back the known origins of higher life to more than 635 million years ago.
"The animals' remains don't look like traditional fossils. They're more like fossil echoes: chemical traces of a compound only produced — at least in modern times — by demosponges, descendants of what some scientists consider to be the last common ancestor of all animals."

 

[AV1611VET]

This just out today:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/earliestanimal.html

"Fossil traces found in an oil field on the Arabian Peninsula are the oldest evidence yet of animals, pushing back the known origins of higher life to more than 635 million years ago.
"The animals' remains don't look like traditional fossils. They're more like fossil echoes: chemical traces of a compound only produced — at least in modern times — by demosponges, descendants of what some scientists consider to be the last common ancestor of all animals."

This is why I always tell scientists to do three things:

1. keep looking
2. keep looking
3. keep looking

I believe that if they really applied themselves, they could find mankind living in harmony with the dinosaurs.

They will never get this good:

And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

--- but they'll be able to find things they always swore never existed.

 

[Mallon]

I believe that if they really applied themselves, they could find mankind living in harmony with the dinosaurs.

Oh, we already have. Haven't you heard of Onyate Man?

 

[AV1611VET]

Haven't you heard of Onyate Man?

No but JOB comes to mind.

And to be honest --- and I'll say this ahead of time, that I think you guys are sincere in your labeling, and not meaning to demean anyone --- but to be honest --- I find all this labeling people as Neanderthals, and Cro-Magnons, etc., offensive.

How would you like it if you had a child with some bone disease, or some other physical defect, and they labeled him "Neanderthal", or "Cro-Magnon"?

But again, I make amends for your myopia.

 

[Mallon]

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_neands.html

 

[The Barbarian]

Onyate Man

Ah, you know of Pilar Pendejo's research into dino/hominid ecology in the American Southwest?

You might say it's given her a bad name among paleontologists. :o