Excellent point.
NASA scientists are like any other scientists: they work hard and they occassionally make mistakes and/or exaggerate or misinterpret a finding. It's all hashed out and disputed and ultimately filtered through the sieve of replication and hopefully a clearer understanding of...
Yep, Rosie has presented the most detailed and critical analysis of NASA's study in her blog here. It's really good imo. NASA has been dismissive of the criticisms though despite what I see as valid questions. As usual Zimmer gives the best review of what's going on over the whole controversy...
I suppose the Earth is pretty young at a sprightly 4.5 billion years old. I mean in comparison to the universe's nearly 14 billion years this planet is still a fetus in comparison. ;)
I have to stop giving newhope101's posts the benefit of the doubt... I glossed over stuff like the above assuming she meant CHLCA and not a direct chimp-to-human ancestry.
What a waste of time.
From abiogenesis to the perineum in 43 posts! That has to be a record. :eek:
I was just being trollish and coy yet really obtuse at the same time... :sarcastic
Teleportation.
All animals used to be able to teleport before the Deluge but lost the ability to do so after the effects of the water canopy altered the planet's atmospheric pressure and mutated every creatures DNA so they lost the ability to teleport.
It's there in Gen. 43:86.
I think Painted wolf and Auto' explained this far better than I but I'll add my tuppence.
I do think Ardi’ has been hyped and the inevitable consequence of said hype is misrepresentation and confusion over what the fossils actually suggest. I posted a response (over here on 12/1/10) to...
Cool!
I assume the pic is connected to Tesla's paper The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires which is about, well, the transmission of electrical energy without wires. :D
It's written in his usual hyperbolic style where everything he does is the "first decisive experimental...