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Talking about an over inflated sense of self worth and entitlement having zilch to say and absolutely nothing of any substance to contribute, remind me again what you have contributed other than making it warm in here?

Quite clearly you, CabVet, Psudopod and others have no idea how to debate.

Ignoring information and points in some twisted inapproriate response only makes you feel better. However it does not address anything I have said.

At least Loudmouth has some understanding and ability to discern information and respond, even if he cannot get his head around the common ancestor not being chimpanzee like.

I could chat with you lot for days and post as much research from your own as I wished and you simply would not comprehend it, let alone be able to assimilate or understand anything that was said.

You lot need to butt out and let the big guy evos strut their stuff because quite clearly from all these responses since my last post, none of you lot have any idea about your own evolutionary sciences. Much less are you able to mount any refute to anything I have said.


Loudmouth challenged me to find articles that clearly define the human/chimp ancestor was not chimp-like because he didn't believe me and could not observe or discern it for himself from Ardi.

I have produced such an article and quite clearly your researchers agree that Ardi is not chimp-like, nor even really ape like.

Hence any comparison of mankind to chimpanzee can only be comparing traits that have evolved independently in each suppossed ancestral line and mean absolutely nothing.

To put it bluntly your evolutionary comparisons are crapp and so are your assertions that any fossil may be a human ancestor!

Chimp like traits could only have 'evolved' in the chimp line because the common ancestor was not chimp like.

Of all you evos here now, Loudmouth is clearly the only one worth having an intelligent conversation with so I will wait for his response if he can respond at all. He at least has some understanding of the evolutionary science he defends.

If I miss your response Loudmouth please repost. This lot here are about as entertaining as talking to a 5 year old about evolution.
 
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Clearly Jazer, naturalists can no longer distinguish between observed science that produces the factual information that gets rockets to the moon and apples to fall to the ground, from the theoretical, that results in ridiculous and non plausible theories such as singularities and multiple dimensions.

This lot bamboozle themselves into thinking evolutionary theory is any more than the theoretical and they confuse TOE with the factual as they are unable to discern the difference anymore.

Likewise they compare the theoretical side of evolutionary theory, that which is not observed, to gravitational theory, which contains scientificaly proven assertions as well as theoretical ones, and think they are making some point.

You can see it. I can see it. Naturalists just remain bamboozled and unaware of the difference between real science and the theoretical.
 
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A peer reviewed article please. We all agree that journalists get the science wrong all of the time. I want to hear from the scientists themselves, not the journalists who mangle what the scientists say.

Just a quick question for you. You are claiming that Ardi is an ape, correct? If so, how did you determine this? Is it because Ardi shares features with other apes, including chimps?


So you are saying that Ardi does not have any ape features? What is Ardi, if not an ape?

As a result, it was frequently posited that the common ancestor would look like an ape. Now, it appears that approach may be more misleading than illuminating.

Humans look like an ape because we are an ape.

If Ardi resembles the common ancestor of humans and apes, then apes must have evolved much more than previously thought since separating from hominids.

Humans are apes, so yes, there was evolution that occurred. There is no reason that chimps could not evolve from that common ancestor just as humans did. What we should find in transitional fossils in the human lineage is a mixture of human and chimp features, and we do. This is true whether or not the common ancestor was more human or chimp like.

So you requested and I provided. You have persisted post after post with this. Now let this be the end of you guys trying to pretend you actually know what you are going on about when you say transitional human.

You have yet to list your criteria for which features a transitional should or should not have. Where are those criteria? You claim that these fossils are not transitional, even though the fit the definition you previously agreed to.
 
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Quite clearly you, CabVet, Psudopod and others have no idea how to debate.

Excuse me? In what way do I not know how to debate? I've taken your posts and addressed your points, I've explained things and I've been polite to you. This is just rude. If you don't want to address what I've written, fine, don't bother, but accuse me of not knowing how to debate.
 
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Evolution is a fact and a theory. Evolution is the change in frequency of alleles in a population and this is a demonstratable fact. Evolution is also a theory which explains the patterns of biological diversity.

Gravity on the other hand, though we can mathmatically model the effects, we have no real idea what it is, in essence. The point people are making when they compare the theory of gravity to the theory of evolution is that evolution is considerably better understood and evidenced than gravity, yet most people don't have any beef with gravity because it doesn't contradict their interpretation of the bible.
 
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Ahem, Astrid, since when did any scientist in the field of biology claim we are descended from chimps? Humans and chimps are descended from a common ancestor. It is not required that this ancestor looked just like a chimp.

And reading the Wikipedia article for Ardipithicus, I note that it says that Ardi lived more recently than the most recent common ancestor between chimps and humans. That means that we can't use it as a basis for what the chimp ancestor looked like at the time, not really. It was already developing features that we see more fully developed in modern Humans, such as reduced canine teeth and an upright posture.

And regarding the fossil chimpos, the fact is that chimps today live in areas that are not really the best for the creation of fossils. Fossilisation is very rare, happening only when certain conditions are met. If an animal lives in an area that doesn't have these conditions, then it will rot away or be eaten by scavengers before it can fossilise. If the ancestors of chimps lived in similar climates then we would not find many fossils of them.

And the fossils of the chimps are three teeth. Yep, just three teeth. Not really enough to make much of a statement about their physiology, so you can't claim that they couldn't have come from the same branch as Humans.

And even without much fossil evidence for the common ancestry between humans and chimps, you are ignoring the huge amount of genetic evidence we have that tells us that Humans and Chimps share a common ancestor.
 
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I am not ignoring anything. I have spoken about DNA at length way back. You lot like to side wind all around the place. The best way to deal with evolutionists is to pin them down to one little point and have it out.

So far, the point of skulls being evidence for human ancestry finds you lot are lost and can only offer nonsense and algorithms that clearly defy observation.

Here's a glimpse of the DNA misrepresentation you lot also like to think is so fantastic that you disregard differences before the algorithm is even run.

New Chromosome Research Undermines Human-Chimp Similarity Claims
Evaluating the Human-Chimp DNA Myth--New Research Data

As for the what the heck a trasitional fossil should or shouldn't look like, re skull fossil evidence, you evolutionists clearly have no idea, nor can you do any more than speculate and guess. This is your science.
 
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You know, when you reply to a post using quote, it doesn't include anything in the first post that you quoted.

So that means that if I was to quote what you said, all the bits where, in your post, you reply in red inside the quoted part from me will not appear in my post when I try to quote you! It makes it a big and annoying job of cutting and pasting and then applying my own quote tags.

So learn to use the quote tags! I'm not going to respond to you until you do. it's not that hard.

Once you have the "reply to post" page up, simply select the part of my post that you want to have appear in quote tags. Then click the
button. Now you will see quote tags applied automatically! So easy!

Please do it this way! I'm not going to respond to you if you don't. Oh, and don't tell me that the quote tags don't work. They work just fine for everyone else. If you knew how to use them then you;d be able to get them to work too.
 
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You seem to be very consistent with your sources of information which are:

1. Non science sources.
2. If from a science source it is misrepresented.

BTW, ICR does no research of their own. They take already published science and misrepresent it. If one has to deceive and lie to support ones religious beliefs something must be wrong.
 
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Just one question and I would appreciate an honest straight forward "yes" or "no" answer. Do you think any of the above you posted supports an argument against evolution?
 
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No 2 'If from a science source' demonstrates yiu have no idea what a science source is.

You lot, especially Loudmouth, have gone on for pages and pages unable to accept the obvious.

Clearly, Ardi was not a knuckle walking creature. You lot have goosed around this one little point as if evolutionists were frightened critters unable to even evaluate the obvious nor assimilate information from multiple sources as if it would unhinge some earthquake of death on you all.

I hope all creationists are noting this behaviour.ie Evolutionists unable to deal with their own research findings and spending over a week in denial.

I have posted many articles that have reported well credentialed researchers plainly stated it is unlikely that the common ancestor was chimp like. These have been published in Science Magazine and others.

Do you think your constant and unending pitiful requests for more and more articles will resolve your inadequacies and inability to deal with new information?


You lot, are absolutly unable to deal with this information.
 
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Just one question and I would appreciate an honest straight forward "yes" or "no" answer. Do you think any of the above you posted supports an argument against evolution?


YES. I think my posts support an argument against evolution and do support the creation of mankind and apes as distinct creatures. You have no demonstration of chimp ancestry, only excuses, and your human fossils are a revolving door with no base line to determine what fossil belongs to what ancesty. Indeed Turkana Boy the ape had plently of time, according to punctuated evolution theory, to evolve into a chimp and you have no evidence to suggest otherwise as you have no chimp ancestry back past 500,000 years.

Clearly the fossil evidence supports the creation of mankind and apes as individual creations because the fossil record satisfies the prediction that if creation is truth there will be no transitional fossils. There 100% isn't any fossil evidence to support half of the theorised tree.

My posts demonstrates that what fossil evidence you have now is no more than speculation and wishlisting. There may be evidence for your theory. However you do not have it at present.


The question put to you lot initially was this.

How does the fossil record support an ancestry to a creature that was chimp like and now the same fossil evidence supports ancestry to a common ancestor that was not chimp like? This is ridiculous and evolutionists are unable to grasp the implications of the Ardi find.

You evos have squirmed, tried to change subject, demanded a definition of 'transitional' when you evolutionists are unable to supply a decent one yourselves, and demanded multiple sources of information to demonstrate a well accepted point of view that your own evo researchers accept these days.

Here is confirmation that your reseachers are unable to determine what the common ancestor looked like, as well as the impossibility of differentiation.


The reconstruction of facial morphology and the determination of its taxonomic and phylogenetic significance is fraught with difficulty when the fossil evidence is close to the formation of a lineage. This is because of the likelihood of both homoplasy and a paucity of defining derived features. It is therefore difficult to list the facial morphology that would be hypothesized to distinguish the LCA of chimp/bonobos and modern humans from stem members of either the hominin or panin lineages. The facial morphology of the current candidate LCA taxa (Ar. ramidus, Ar. kabadda, O. tugenensis and S. tchadensis) have been reviewed. In light of the problem summarized above and the paucity of the fossil evidence of the face in the hypodigms of these four taxa, it is not possible to determine with any confidence whether any of them is the LCA, or a stem taxon in either lineage, or a member of an extinct, and until now unrecognized, hominid lineage. Even if the fossil record were better for this period, the problems of homoplasy mean that it might be unrealistic to think that facial morphology will neatly resolve the systematic ambiguities presented by these putative early hominin taxa.

The facial skeleton of the chimpanzee-human last common ancestor


I strongly suggest that

1. Your fossils demonstrate a familial similarity to a creature that was chimp like not that long ago. You lot have gone on and on about this for decades. The obvious concludes that these fossils belong in the chimpanzee side of the evo bush as they were proven by you lot to have chimp like traits. The human line should not have marked chimpanzee traits due to the common ancestor not being chimp-like.

2. There are no chimpanzee fossils found apart from teeth dated as recently as 500,000 years. This is impossible. The chimp side of the bush should be as equally convincing in demonstrating chimp lineage back to the common ancestor. It isn't and far from it.

3. Humans share more morphology with an orangutan. In other words morphology in light of homoplasy and convergent evolution, is not a good predictor of ancestry to begin with. The research above supports this claim.


You lot have unhinged the irrefuteable evidence you once had for ancestry to a chimp like creature with the finding of Ardi's partial skeleton. That evidence now resides in the rubish bin. You are unable to redefine the base of your proposed comparisons as to what creature may be in the chimp or human line.

The obvious impossibility of having no evidence for chimp ancestry and that none of your numerous fossils belong in the chimp ancestry line lends very strong support to my claim that at least some, if not all, of your fossils, are chimp relatives.

I am looking at one small point here, the skull evidence that you lot so proudly produce as demonstrating the gradual evolution to mankind.

It is easy to reconstruct a misrepresentation based on common thinking. Rudofensis is a case in point. Hence, I suggest that many of your reconstructions are not valid anyway but only reflect the thinking of the time. The fact that you can use algorithms to suggest a growing brain capacity contained in comparartively similar cranial vaults has no more credibility than suggesting a pygmy is not as human as a 7ft basketball player. It is ridiculous. The huge sexual dimorphism found in Homo erectus, lends futher support that these supposed ancestors were much more ape like than previously thought and share more in common with each other than they do with mankind.

The huge and remarkable differences in Y chromosome being at least 30% different and up to 50%, the chimp genome being 10-12% larger, differences in surface composition, differences in protien expression, different hot spots, the increasing differences being found continually only adds further support to my claim.

So YES, I do believe Ardi has falsified your most recent thinking and demonstrated, at least, that evolutionists have no idea what evidence for ancestry looks like and are grasping at straws at best.
 
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YES. I think my posts support an argument against evolution and do support the creation of mankind and apes as distinct creatures.

Well then, assuming that you have actually read the sources you cite, that is the actual peer review science, you really have trouble understanding what the research is about, because everyone of those I have checked, support evolution. It appears you like spending quite a bit of time in the "quote mine" and cherry picking information. Your Gish Gallops may fool the layman, but those of us who actually understand the science.
 
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Your aside and winding nonsense is no refute. Of course they all support evolution in evolutionary related articles. That is not the point to the post and well you know it. The point apparent from the articles is that the common ancestor is NOT chimp like. Of course your researchers are looking for new lines to pedal and misrepresent to the public.

The point being, as previously stated, only a fool would believe evidence for mankinds ancestry to a chimp-like ape can be supported by the same evidence that supports ancestry to a creature not like a chimp and hardly like an ape, despite forthcoming woffle. The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour meaning any evolutioanry support is going to end up in the garbage eventually. Yours is a real anything goes kind of psuedo science. This finding was unexpected and not predicted until Ardi. So now new woffle ensues that will end up in the rubbish bin ....like these......



"Third, how many alleged human ancestors must be debunked before the world views these false evolutionary claims with appropriate incredulity. Chapters one and two of the Apologetics Press book The Truth About Human Origins deals definitively with Aegyptopithecus Zeuxis, Dryopithicus africanus, Ramapithesu brevirostris, Orrorin tugenensis, Australopithecus ramidus, Australopithicus anamensis, Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba, Kenyanthropus platyops, Lucy, Homo habilis, Homo erectus,Neanderthals, Nebraska Man, Piltdown Man, Java Man, and Rhodesian Man (2003). In addition, Hobbit Man has been debunked (see Harrub, 2004; Harrub, 2005) and “Lucy’s Baby” is no longer viable (see Harrub, 2006)."

In more recent news, a lemur fossil named Ida was hailed as not just “a discovery of great significance” (“The Link,” 2009),until these claims were reduced to ashes by opponents within the evolutionary camp (see Lyons and Butt, 2009; Lyons, 2009b; Butt, 2009).

The latest reports of the 4.4 million-year-old Ardi are standard, run-of-the-mill, evolutionary propaganda that lack scientific integrity and, more basically, a foundation of truth. Already, we are being treated to “qualifying” statements such as, “it may take years to confirm exactly where Ardi fits in the history of human evolution” (Sample, 2009). Yale paleontologist Andrew Hill said: “We thought Lucy was the find of the century but, in retrospect, it isn’t” (as quoted in Sample). Would that we could fast-forward a few years (or a few weeks as in Ida’s case) and see what discrediting remarks Ardi will elicit “in retrospect.” In addition, the stories being spun are already contradictory. For instance, Schmid says that Ardi’s anatomy shows that “the development of their arms and legs indicates that they didn’t spend much time in the trees” (2009, emp. added). While, on the other hand, Sample stated: “Though Ardi would have spent much of her time in the trees, her pelvis was adapted to walking upright...” (2009, emp. added).

"In other places, we have documented admissions from evolutionists, showing examples of the fabrication and exaggeration so prevalent in the field of evolutionary paleontology (see Butt, 2008b; Lyons, 2009a)."
Apologetics Press - Ardi Joins a Long, Infamous List of Losers


Seriously and in reality I do not have to refute evolution because your researchers love to discredit each others work, or rather flavour of the month, themselves... I know,.... evolutionsists some how call continual falsifications a scientific advancement in clarity..and the only science that does, I may add.

The chimp like features that you lot woffled on and on about for decades whilst you assumed the common ancestor was chimp like, right up to finding Lucy, the debunked queen, has demonstrated that all these fossils you hold up as human ancestors or relatives are more likely to be the missing chimpanzee fossils.

Unfortunately you evos have nothing more than a wish list to demonstrate otherwise.
 
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This is a sample of the endless prattle evolutinists come up with. Here is more info for you to ignore.

"Ardi also has much smaller canine teeth than modern apes, suggesting that her species was monogamous and didn’t need large teeth for fighting over mates."

Discovery of Oldest Hominid Fossil May End Search for Chimp-like Missing Link


However Erectus has been found to have HUGE sexual dimorphism akin to gorillas.
New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early Evolution Of Our Genus Homo






Is this Sediba hand what you call more human like? What a ridiculous joke. This apes, Sediba, hand is less human than Ardi's.


The debate about Florensisenis, most recently cast out of the human line looks more human than Turkana Boy, with less ridging.


Hobbit and human skull
Newest Studies Indicate "Hobbit" Was Not Human, Possibly Homo Habilis


Turkana Boy skulls.


You lot rant and rave about teeth, cranial vaults, eyebrow ridging, reduction in sexual dimorphism and noses and the whole lot of it is straw grabbing and contradictory rubbish.

What's more you have stuff all evidence for chimp ancestry. You evos put up a host of excuses as to why you have only found 1 chimp ancestor dated to 500,000ya, if the teeth belong to a chimp at all.

I am telling you all this is garbled inconsistent nonsense.

Every inconsistency is hand waved away with invented terms. Why are no 'so called human traits' homologous in apes but must be ancestral? Oh wait ..yes they are!!! In fact if the comon ancestor was not ape or human like, then all specific traits evolved independently. I have already put up research that speaks to chimps being bad comparisons nowadays, which you have ignored.

The reason why all these chimp like taits are found in fossils, most of them single bones or fragments, is because they are more likely to be chimp relatives.


Unfortunately for evolutionists you have no more than a wish list to demonstrate otherwise.


 
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