[robski]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5363328.stm

A nice find!

[robski]

Hominid skulls are fascinating.

Check out this picture:

[robski]

Can this picture rid the religious fundamentalists from the forum once and for all?

[PolestaR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('robski', 'C')an this picture rid the religious fundamentalists from the forum once and for all?

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('robski', 'C')an this picture rid the religious fundamentalists from the forum once and for all?

[robski]

I said that tongue in cheek by the way. I just forgot to add the smiley. . For some reason I always get an error message when I try to add a smiley. Are you an evolutionary theist then, rwwff?

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..The skeleton was first identified in 2000, locked inside a block of sandstone. It has taken five years of painstaking work to free the bones...

[rwwff]

No. I just don't mix the two; most especially religion into science. I will, from time to time in the nature of story telling, allow scientific knowledge to "bleed through" into a religious story.

I do it that way for two reasons.

1st - practicality (why clutter)
2nd - scientific knowledge rarely (arguably, never) has any ethical implication one way or another, so dumping some into a religious story does not alter the "faith and morals" aspect that is critical. On the other hand, taking a religious axiom and dumping it into a scientific context, demeans the inerrant part of the axiom by emphasizing that which is subject to large errors.

The creation story is of course the prime example.. Which of the following would be protected by the statement "inerrant with regard to faith and morals.":

1.) it took 6 days
2.) God did it.

Yet often, people get so tangled up in that first part, that they completely lose sight of the fact that it doesn't matter whether if it took 1 minute, 1 year, or 1 billion years; what's important for the preservation of the faith and religious truth, is that God did it.

[Tanada]

A new PBS documentary series is out on the story of evolution right up through we humans. You can watch it online
http://www.pbs.org/your-inner-fish/watch/
as it comes out, seems pretty good from watching the first episode.

[timmac]

Oh please Lucy skull has been proven even by scientist to be a fraud..

Nice try..

[vtsnowedin]

Which day was used to create DNA? And I suppose that the fossil record is a work of the devil meant to keep us from the divine truth?

[careinke]

Metaphysics has no place in science. I'm not passing judgement here on your metaphysical beliefs, whatever it is, just saying it should not be mixed with science.

[sparky]

.
there is two ways of looking at the world

1-the probablility of you and me having a conversation is equivalent to winning the lotery every day of your life for forty years ,

2- we are the product of some creation , cause , agent and purpose unknown

I'm lazy and don't believe in casinos , I'll take the second option

[Newfie]

Tanda,

Thanks for your attempt at civil discourse on an interesting subject.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'A')re there forces beyond that we don't understand?