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Author Topic:   Ape skulls? Human? Hominid?
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Message 4 of 29 (106591)
05-08-2004 12:03 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Mission for Truth
05-08-2004 12:14 AM


Mission for Truth
I remember Richard Dawkins addressed this arguement in his book Climbing Mount Improbable.It dealt with the insistence of locating the "missing link" in the ape-human transition.Since we must categorize apes to one side and humans to another even though we do find close approximations to one another in terms of features we must eventually place it within a category.Over time the distinction becomes finer however there will always be distinctions and therefore must eventually fall into either ape or human.It is a failure of our classification system that there is no actual "in between" classification.
Creationists say that the transitionary fossils are either ape or human but fail to think that this is precisely what we would expect from a fossil record that evolved.Now I wonder if they have an explanation of their own?

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Message 15 of 29 (106917)
05-09-2004 9:59 PM
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05-09-2004 7:36 PM


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But we would also expect to see humans and apes if we didn't. So I guess it is evidence of creation.
We would not expect to see expect according to Creationists fossil skulls evidencing traits differing from either modern humans or modern apes.Yet we have ample collections of both these.We have transitional fossils which run the gamut between man and other primates. This is the point I was trying to get at. Please check out this website http://www.theistic-evolution.com/transitional.html and see if you can determine where in the creationist model these skulss fitRemember that there is no transitionals between humans and other primatesin creationist views.

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