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Dr Adequate
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Message 674 of 1075 (622963)
07-07-2011 3:10 PM
Reply to: Message 671 by Mazzy
07-07-2011 2:51 PM


Re: Creation "science" again
We are familiar with creationist dogma. Perhaps instead of merely reciting it, you could come up with some sort of an argument in favor of it.
This is, after all, a forum for reasoned debate. If you merely wish to shout incoherent nonsense at people, a street corner is the usual venue. Smelling of vomit and waving an empty liquor bottle is acceptable but optional.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 679 of 1075 (622969)
07-07-2011 3:23 PM
Reply to: Message 669 by Mazzy
07-07-2011 2:30 PM


Re: dates change
Oh for goodness sake..what a line..."the self correcting nature of science". It reminds me of someone that argued 'evolution reinvents itself".
The self correcting nature of science demonstrates that the theory of evolution is a theory in evolution and has little if any predictive power.
Was that last sentence constructed by drawing words at random out of a hat? It's a complete non sequitur.
Rather TOE macroevolves to fit the information gleaned from biased and increasingly complex and convoluted models that are based on the assumption of ancestry.
Would it be possible for us to speak to the hat directly?
The FACT that there are no hairy apey humans around today supports the creationist view that there never were any.
The fact that there are intermediate forms in the fossil record supports the sane view that there were once intermediate forms.
The FACTS need to be explained by evolutionists with convoluted theories as to why they ALL died out and they still cannot agree on this.
We're still waiting for your explanation.
Neither creation nor evolution is refuteable and hence they are faiths...like it or not.
You can't even recite creationist nonsense properly. As I have told you before, you're meant to be pretending that evolution is unfalsifiable. Admitting that it is irrefutable is true, and as such has no place in creationist dogma.
Basically I see the facts well support a creationist stance, or alternatively, an evolutionary puzzle. I'll take the well supported stance as being the more robust as opposed to a theoretical unresolved puzzle.
What is your "well supported stance" on why we can no longer find any Neanderthals or habilines or australopithicenes?
If you can't answer that question, it seems that what you have is not so much a "well supported stance" as a "theoretical unresolved puzzle".
When I have leisure, I shall count the number of times you have ducked answering this question.
See I am actually more scientific that many of you that have nothing more than debated theories to bolster your stance.
I shall continue to rely on scientists to tell me what is and isn't scientific. Their superior knowledge of science, combined with their ability to write coherent English, recommends them to me as being better equipped to do so then you are.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 682 of 1075 (622975)
07-07-2011 3:37 PM
Reply to: Message 678 by Mazzy
07-07-2011 3:22 PM


You lot will never recover from your earlier misrepresentation of Neanderthal. It took DNA to set the record straight.
TheN of course there is CONTAMINATION, CONTAMINATION CONTAMINATION.
You appear to be alluding to events that have only taken place in your head. As a result, your narrative is hard to follow.
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Message 686 of 1075 (622983)
07-07-2011 3:53 PM
Reply to: Message 683 by Mazzy
07-07-2011 3:37 PM


Re: dates change
No your interpretations and theories claim there are intermediates in the fossil record.
The fact that there are intermediate forms in the fossil record proves that there are intermediate forms in the fossil record. This is a prediction of the theory, and therefore tends to confirm it.
Interpretation does not, of course, come into it.
My interpretation and theories suggest there was a great variety of non human primates with flat faces and rounded skull caps just like there is today.
"Just like there is today"? You are now claiming that they have survived?
Please show us some examples.
The fact according to your own biased dating methods is that there are stuff all chimp fossils dating back to the split.
Could we have that again in English?
And preferably without pretending that dating methods are "biased", you're not likely to deceive anyone.
My explanation for this is every adaptation in the chimp line has been lumped into the human line and that is why you have bugger all fossil chimps and lots of misrepresented homonids etc. eg Ardi the ape.
And yet the intermediate forms don't look much like chimps. Many of them look distinctly more like humans.
P.S: Sally McBrearty1 & Nina G. Jablonski, "First Fossil Chimpanzee",Nature 437, 105-108 (1 September 2005)
My argument better aligns with the EVIDENCE found.
No, it doesn't, because the evidence (things which are anatomically unlike chimps) aligns better with the proposition that they were not, in fact, chimps.
You are still left explaining why stuff all chimp ancestors have been found, via a plethora of theories?
If that sentence was written in English, it would probably not be true. I have never "explain[ed] why stuff all chimpanzee ancestors have been found", mainly because this isn't actually true. The fact that I have never done this argues against your claim that I am still doing it.
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Message 687 of 1075 (622985)
07-07-2011 4:02 PM
Reply to: Message 676 by Mazzy
07-07-2011 3:17 PM


Re: Creation "science" again
This thread is about no hairy apey half humans being about.
A phenomenon which you have not even tried to explain.
Creationists have won the day based on facts.
If "winning the day" is the same as ducking the issue, then yes. Otherwise, not so much.
Evolutionists have won the day on being ignorant of creation sciences, abusive and showing they have no more than a bunch of debated theories to explain the facts.
I think we actually won by default, since you have produced no theory, "debated" or otherwise, to explain the facts.
In other words I feel many of you have confimed you can no longer tell the difference between fact and fiction.
Of course you do. You also "feel" that H. erectus is a gorilla --- or is it a chimpanzee now? It's so hard to keep up.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 707 of 1075 (623065)
07-08-2011 1:17 AM
Reply to: Message 702 by Mazzy
07-08-2011 12:04 AM


Re: Try again Mazzy
I have supported everrything I have said with scientific backing.
No you haven't.
For example, where is your scientific backing for your claim (post #431) that "most of your Homo Erectus fossils are nothing more than a variety of gorilla"?
Put up or shut up.
TOE is unfalsifiable just like creation and is a faith.
I had to coach you on that falsehood, but you're finally reciting it correctly.
It is, of course, not true.
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Message 708 of 1075 (623066)
07-08-2011 1:21 AM
Reply to: Message 706 by Mazzy
07-08-2011 1:14 AM


Re: Dating and evolution
How about a feathered T Rex dinosaur atop evidence from your own that suggests birds may not have evolved from dinos after all. So if this proves correct wha happens to feathers..Oh yeah...convergent or parallel evolution, which would bring TOE back to life?
How about this for a chuckle.....Myllokunmingia is meant to be the first 'unproven' vertabae. Oh yeah...and it looks like it..NOT! just another straw grabbing extravaganza.
Page not found | New Scientist
All you have as support for your TOE are vertebraes suddenly appearing in the Cambrain explosion and nothing at all to link them to any life form previously. That again is 'the fact' which supports creation. The unproven theory that the first vertabraed organism evolved from a precambrian invertabrae is a theory with no support past your predetermined assumptions, as usual.....
Hagfish were classed as vertebrata and have no vertabrae and now align as a 'proposed' clade of Craniata. They are also monophyletic which adds support to their being 'a kind'.
Agnathans are still here today from the Cambrian explosion just as any creationist would expect to see of the many kinds initially created. They have not evolved into anything else.
Pehensile tails must now have evolved twice to fit in with your other stuff you've found...How convenient! ...between parrallel evolution, convergent evolution, excuses to explain homoplasy, I'd say your TOE is as unfalsifiable as your own Dawkins alluded to. I doubt a precambrian mammal would disprove creation let alone provide support for creation to evolutionists.
Just a moment...
How did vertabraes land? Ahha....Tiktaalic did I hear you say. Tiktaalic is just another sad story amongst many where tetrapod fossils were found to predate it...so sorry...that's gone as well....You and your researchers believe this just because it had to be with nothing remotely resembling support or more than hand waving to back it.
Your vertabrae evidence demonstrate nothing more than all life appeared suddenly spines and all. So again the FACTS support creation. Theory is all that supports evolution. It is just the way it is!
The details of your fantasy world are somewhat obscured by your tendency to describe it in a made-up language.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 716 of 1075 (623102)
07-08-2011 5:46 AM
Reply to: Message 711 by Mazzy
07-08-2011 3:44 AM


Re: Restate the obvious.....
I can make as many blanket statements as I want.
No-one doubts your ability to say dumb things; it's your ability to justify them that is problematic.
What is obvious is your choosing one little aside as some token gesture of an attempt to feel you have refuted me.
Actually, you hav been shown to be wrong about many things.
I am telling you there is a metatarsal bone that is human and 3myo which makes Lucy with ape traits plainly just an ape and you want to dispute asides.
Actually, you telling us things does not change the anatomy of Lucy.
That says it all.
Bye then.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 717 of 1075 (623104)
07-08-2011 6:00 AM
Reply to: Message 712 by Mazzy
07-08-2011 3:53 AM


Re: Dating and evolution
Birds are warm blooded like mammals, and not like reptiles. It is easier for you to not acknowledge warm bloodedness as a clade because it throws the whole thing out of whack.
Are you claiming that warm-blooded animals constitute a clade?
Rather you would rather invent a story about warm bloodedness evolving twice that admit yoiur cladistics is whacky science.
Translated from Creationist into English, we would rather follow the evidence where it leads than talk fatuous nonsense.
"This incompatibility with the Linnaean taxonomy model led to an initial rift, not entirely healed, between the cladistic and Linnean schools of thought. Extreme cladists challenged the validity of Linnean taxa such as the Reptilia. Because birds, although descended from reptiles, are not themselves considered to be reptiles, cladists demanded that the taxon Reptilia be dismantled: a request that taxonomists were unwilling to heed.[7] This stand-off was eventually resolved to a degree by the construction of the term 'paraphyletic' to describe closely related groups which included most but not all of the descendants of a common ancestor.[4]"
Monophyly - Wikipedia
Another entirely random C&P. Did this serve any function except to guarantee that one paragraph in your post would be written in proper English?
All I know is that you have zilch, squat, zero evidence that any creature poofed into a lungfish or anything else in the Cambrian.
Indeed, we have no evidence of anything contrary to the theory of evolution. But that is your problem and not ours.
Again these are the facts..the sudden appearance of vertabrae.
Please demonstrrate this imaginary "fact" with reference to actual evidence.
The cover stories that are meant to turn the obvious evidence for a creative day into an evolutionary mystery are your theories and basically that's all you've got, because the facts support creation as demonstrated.
We're familiar with your dogma. If only you could justify it instead of merely reciting it.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 734 of 1075 (623256)
07-08-2011 10:35 PM
Reply to: Message 727 by Mazzy
07-08-2011 3:35 PM


No I'd say the FACT that your researchers have put up comparisons from 2% to 6% chimp human comparisons whilst indeed the chimp and human genome is 30% compariatively different suggests yur researchers have produced research that is biased and basically says nothing about our ancestry to chimps.
Looking to one small part of the genome, MTDNA, the cells powerhouse, would have to be the most simplistic, misrepresentative method of comparison available and the only part of the entire genome that yeilds such close similarities.
Here is my research evidence to demonstrate that in actual fact there is a 30% comparative difference between the chimpanzee and a human being. This 30% does not include the 10% larger chimp genome, not the different surface composition, so in actual fact it should be even more.
"Figures published in Nature on September 1, 2005, in an article produced by the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, show that 24% of the chimpanzee genome does not align with the human genome. There are 3% further alignment gaps, 1.23% SNP differences, and 2.7% copy number variations totaling at least 30% differences between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens genomes."
Chimpanzee genome project - Wikipedia
So we are made out to be chimp relatives whether our difference is 2%, 6% or 30%. These FACTS not only demonstrate 'some lack of veracity' on the part of evolutionists claims but actually demonstrates that there is NO veracity in these comparisons.
As you would know if you were literate, the two groups of researchers were measuring different things. This is why they got different numbers as answers. The two results are not in conflict. Indeed, they cannot be in conflict any more than a measurement of your shoe size could be in conflict with a measurement of your IQ. (I shall refrain from speculating which would be the larger.)
The FACT that you have stuff all ancestors for chimps further supports my claim. Can you refute that with any thing more than beligerance and empty words?
Yeah, we can point out that this is something you made up.
My assertion that all your ancestors outside of homo sapiens are varieties of apes, some flat faced apes such as Lluc, 12myo, changes in dentition that reflect diet rather than ancestry is just as good an argument as the mess you can present.
No it isn't, because you haven't even tried to justify it in the light of the evidence.
Please present your evidence that most H. erectus specimens are gorillas, as you have claimed.
I have presented evidence from within your own biased research and can still defend a creationist claim
You have not yet tried to defend your claim. You have merely stated it.
Hopefully you are aware of your excuses as to why no half breeds exist today. There are a few of these EXCUSES so you get to pick which one you support. HAPPY GUESSING...!!!!
Well, what's your explanation?
It's a simple enough question. Why are there no living examples of the forms such as H. neanderthalis, H. erectus and H. habilis which are found in the fossil record?
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Message 738 of 1075 (623274)
07-09-2011 2:28 AM
Reply to: Message 735 by LucyTheApe
07-09-2011 1:38 AM


Re: Apes have ventured into space and animals that have built automatons.
They still haven't shown how an ape developed the ability to do mathematics; they can't. They also wont be able to show how apes developed to ability to percieve reality and determine their destiny.
Evolution, of course.
They'll create them out of their imagination, something that they have no answer for in their evolutionary paradigm.
Actually, we dig them out of the ground.
It's difficult to understand that intelligent humans can hold such a ridiculous belief.
That depends who you are. It is easy for intelligent humans to understand why intelligent humans hold such a belief. From the outside, I concede that you must find it puzzling; like a dog trying to understand the thoughts of even the dullest of human beings. Perhaps you had better resign yourself to the idea that the reasoning of intelligent humans will be forever beyond your grasp.
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Message 749 of 1075 (623290)
07-09-2011 5:47 AM
Reply to: Message 747 by Mazzy
07-09-2011 5:08 AM


Turkana Boy
So this time you chose to nit pick on my pointing out my assertion that Turkana Boy is an ape is not generally accepted by many creationists.
These other creationists include you, a fortnight ago, when you wrote:
Turkana Boy is human, the others, especially the one on display at the museum in Michagan, are apes. I am remiss in my ability to understand how such intelligent scientists cannot see the difference. The skulls are clearly ape and human.
And again:
However if they would have pictured Turkana Boy he is fully human.
And again:
I am saying Turkana Boy is fully human. [...] Yet the bottom line is Turkana Boy is human.
And again:
Turkana boy, however is human
And again:
Really most of your Homo Erectus fossils are nothing more than a variety of gorilla, with a human thrown in here and there eg Turkana boy and possibly the little skull cap from Java man. These are just like those of an Australian Aboriginal and well within the variation of human skulls today that vary greatly.
But today you write:
Now I am telling you that my hypothesis and interpretation of the data at hand is that all these so called Homo erectus such as Turkana Boy were a variation of ape. These did not look human at all
So, what happened? Up 'til about a week ago, Turkana Boy was, according to you, "fully human" and "well within the range of human skulls today" and so "clearly" human that you couldn't understand how scientists could deny it. And yet today you write that Turkana Boy "did not look human at all".
What changed? Clearly the fossil stayed the same ... it seems that we have found the perfect intermediate form, in that the same creationist, within the space of a few days, cannot agree with himself on whether it is within the range of modern human skulls or not human at all.
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Message 751 of 1075 (623294)
07-09-2011 6:41 AM
Reply to: Message 747 by Mazzy
07-09-2011 5:08 AM


Lluc
Erectus has heavy brows, pronaganathism, long arms, large bones, large rounded rib cage. Why I'd say he probably looks just like Lluc.
Since Mazzy keeps going on about "Lluc" (Anoiapithecus brevirostris), here's a picture.
There's his "FLAT FACED APE", which, you will note, is not flat-faced.
And here's Turkana Boy again ...
... the same Turkana Boy who was "well within the variation of human skulls today" a week last Thursday.
And today Mazzy "would say that he looks just like Lluc".
Well well.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 752 of 1075 (623295)
07-09-2011 7:08 AM
Reply to: Message 750 by Mazzy
07-09-2011 6:26 AM


What do you mean have in common. Because we were alive. A chimp has a similar skeleton now to humans and looks absolutely nothing like a human.
"Similar" and "nothing like" are antonyms.
I can contemplate the hereafter, and have superior reasoning and perceptual ability, and best of all I do not have long hair growing all over my body.
I believe you about the hereafter and the hair.
Oh no that is not what I said at all. What I have said previously is that the use and control of fire is a complex task. There were no matches. magnifying glass or lighters for erectus. He would have had to have worked out how to use flintstone or stick rubbing, a complex task. I alledge, with its small brain even if I believed it was on its way to humanity, erectus was not smart enough to use and control fire.
What your researchers have found are either fires started naturally, or with hearths, evidence that someone smarter was about at the same time. eg human beings.
You have, of course, no evidence for these assertions.
The arising of a single cell is in the rubbish bin now. Do not forget with the advent of HGT you now have multiple primitive cells arising. These poofed into existence individually and yet were so genetically similar that they were able to horizonatlly transfer genes. Life on this planet will only ever have the same basic genetic blueprint. It does not show we all came from the same cell. In fact your research now shows we didn't. LUCA is dead and so are your genomic comparisons as HGT has confounded your models into a complexity meltdown.
This illiterate nonsense is off-topic.
As for walking upright there is not better term than to say " What Rubbish".
If you can really do no better than to produce a bizarre non sequitur, I think you ought to give up now.
That is flavour of the month. Not too long ago bipedalism was theorised to be connected to brain increase. That has been proven wrong.
What are you talking about?
Neanderthal was also once pictured to be a stooped ape based on its fossils, but now stand perfectly upright.
Actually, the stooped specimen (La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1) is still stooped, since your gibberish has failed to cure his arthritis.
Your reconstructions are biased.
You have not pointed out the imaginary bias.
Besides chimps can walk upright regardless of being knuckle walkers, it has squat to do with becoming human.
And we can hop on one leg. So what? We have anatomical adaptations for being bipedal which chimps lack.
I have given proof that there was flat faced apes around 12mya. Flatter facial features are NOT a sign of becoming human. Erectus has heavy brows, pronaganathism, long arms, large bones, large rounded rib cage. Why I'd say he probably looks just like Lluc.
And you are laughably wrong, as we have seen.
DNA..I have provided evidence from the Chimpanzee genome project that chimps and humans differ by at least 30%.
As you would know if you were literate, that is a measure of alignment, and does not contradict other figures for similarity.
The simply and obvious thing is that some creature on this earth had to be more similar to us than the rest. It happens to be chimps.
But why do chimpanzees have to be closer to us than they are to anything else?
"Chimpanzees seem almost human, and scientists have maintained for decades that chimps are, in fact, 98.5 percent genetically identical to humans.
But the results of a new study call that figure into question, with a finding that there are actually large chunks of the human and chimp genomes that are vastly different. "
You Can't Make a Monkey Out of Us | WIRED#
The article to which you refer (in Wired, for heaven's sake) states: "The study didn't generate a new number expressing how similar or different chimpanzee DNA is from human DNA."
ERV's show nothing more than some species were in the same place and were exposed to some bug.
"Within the published human genome sequence, there are over 98,000 human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs), but all are defective, containing nonsense mutations or major deletions. No replication-competent HERVs have been identified to date (26, 31, 33, 35), with only one (K113) with open reading frames for all genes (35), and thus their activity and infectivity is thought to have decreased substantially from levels occurring during earlier periods of primate evolution (1, 23, 34). "
Just a moment...
Humans can catch Hendra virus but are not closely related to bats or horses. This is just straw grabbing nonsense, made from convoluted mathematical models that mean nothing in the end. You have nonsense mutations and major deletions and it is all guesswork, assumpions and down hill from there.
I suggest that you read up on ERVs until you understand the point; or until you die of old age, whichever comes sooner.
The genetic comparisons your researchers use are very simplistic. They take a handfull of enzymes, stain them with dyes and use this nonsense as the basis to describe and compare an incredibly complex genomic system.
But I have a dream that one day we will be able to sequence entire genomes ...
... oh, wait.
I have refuted morphology, DNA comparison and ERV's as being any more than theoretical assumptions based on further assumptions and convoluted models and in no way appear to detract from my assertion that there were never any chimp/human intermediates.
A more accurate description of what you have done would be "screamed ignorant and illiterate nonsense".
Creationists may not have all the answers either.
Hey, you said something true!
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Dr Adequate
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Message 771 of 1075 (623374)
07-09-2011 8:24 PM
Reply to: Message 760 by Mazzy
07-09-2011 2:25 PM


Re: Lluc
Dr Adequate, that is not the picture of LLuc at all.
Yes it is.
So you are happy to accept a creature that is reconstructed from a few bones when it fits with your paradigm. But you don't when it doesn't suit you. Isn't that the sort of thing you lot say creationists do, pick and choose and then ignore the rest?
Once more your incoherence is impeding your mendacity; it is not clear what falsehood you are attempting to tell about me.
I am always "happy" to accept the type specimen of a species as being a member of that species, 'cos of that being true by definition.
LLuc is a flat faced ape. It is your evolutionary researchers that describe it as such.
It is flatter than other great apes (except humans); it is not flat.
If you do not like what your researchers are saying then you had best go argue with them and make your case. For now we have a flat faced ape dated to 12mya...like it or not.....it could be the ancestor of any other ape with similar features.
Or even of an apeman with dissimilar features, such as H. erectus. But there is no proof that it is ancestral to Homo, so you shouldn't be too quick to claim it as a human ancestor.
And really, if you're going to accept that evolution could have gotten from Anoiapithecus brevirostris to Homo erectus, then it seems fatuous to deny the much smaller morphological step from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens. Who swallows a camel but strains at a gnat?
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