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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world /2009/05/19/2009-05-19_missing_link_foun d_fossil_of_47_millionyearold_primate_sh eds_light_on_.html

A team of researchers Tuesday unveiled an almost perfectly intact fossil of a 47 million-year-old primate they say represents the long-sought missing link between humans and apes.

Bam! Also notice google changed its homepage pic to a pic of the fossil in celebration.

Not that it matters for a religious argument, since christians just believe god created evolution now.


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If apes evolve into humans, that means in about a million years, our apes today will start becoming humans.

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Huh..well that's cool. And all this time I thought it was the yeti...


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Finally creationists can shut the fuck up!

Also, did anybody notice googles homepage today?

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That's no missing link! My buddy just ate some bad berries and that was the result.

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At 5/20/09 07:01 AM, Eggy wrote: Not that it matters for a religious argument, since christians just believe god created evolution now.

Unless you're shaggytheclown17.

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Wow. Maybe we did evolve but I still say God put us here on Earth.

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You have no idea how dumb the arguments of anti-evolutions are on this one... They all boil down to "nut-uh." Some people won't believe something they always thought was different no matter how much evidence you give them.

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At 5/20/09 07:38 AM, HandsomePete wrote: You have no idea how dumb the arguments of anti-evolutions are on this one... They all boil down to "nut-uh." Some people won't believe something they always thought was different no matter how much evidence you give them.

Evolution is what they believe. I know God made us all.

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At 5/20/09 07:40 AM, ScorpionReturn5 wrote:
At 5/20/09 07:38 AM, HandsomePete wrote: You have no idea how dumb the arguments of anti-evolutions are on this one... They all boil down to "nut-uh." Some people won't believe something they always thought was different no matter how much evidence you give them.
Evolution is what they believe. I know God made us all.

Talking to anyone who believes in god is like talking to a brick wall that's over 5 million years old and that has a speech impediment.


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At 5/20/09 07:01 AM, Eggy wrote: Not that it matters for a religious argument, since christians just believe god created evolution now.

This comic reminded me of that.


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At 5/20/09 07:03 AM, flashwarrior wrote: If apes evolve into humans, that means in about a million years, our apes today will start becoming humans.

No, they'll evolve into different apes.

There were pre-historic ape-creatures that evolved into both today's apes and today's humans.

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I've sent a smug message to venomfangx regarding this issue. We were having a little chat about a month ago, and then he suddenly stopped replying, almost as if I had refuted all of his arguments and he was unable to refute mine...

Anyway, I'd like to see what he thinks of this.

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To be honest, a monkey looks more like a human than that piece of shit fossil they found. Why is that thing considered the missing link? The article even says "lemur-like" and "cat-sized". With evolution taking millions of years, shouldn't there be at least one half-man, half-ape fossil out there somewhere??

I heartily believe that evolution is the real deal... but c'mon... this monkey-cat thing is the best we've got? That just pisses me off.

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At 5/20/09 07:31 AM, PrawDuhJee wrote: Also, did anybody notice googles homepage today?

Yea! I love it. Obviously they hate creationists too!

Fuck this shit...Grab ya musket and bust quick word up.
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We already knew evolution works, that's only reasonable. Trying to prove it is an idiot's approach, seeing as nothing can be proven. A profound truth is not a fact, and even Descartes - that philosophy cunt - will have you know that perception is unreliable. That you know and believe in it yourself is more important than trying in futility to prove it.

Frankly I don't even see what one could seek to achieve by proving it. A homogeneous pool of thoughts? A world where everyone accepts evolution as truth? Personally I disagree with that idea, I believe that if people aren't entitled to their own beliefs it will halt our technological progress. If you embrace science then this should sound like a reasonable and agreeable statement. Scientists challenge ideas, they don't agree with ideas, take some self criticism for once. Every time it's opportune I see the BBS agreeing about how true and reasonable their beliefs are. I think this forum is a good example of a homogeneous thought pool.

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We did not come from apes, why are there still apes here then? We came from homosaphians. We didn't come from the same apes you see every day. UGH! Why can't people get that straight?


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At 5/20/09 07:40 AM, ScorpionReturn5 wrote:
At 5/20/09 07:38 AM, HandsomePete wrote: You have no idea how dumb the arguments of anti-evolutions are on this one... They all boil down to "nut-uh." Some people won't believe something they always thought was different no matter how much evidence you give them.
Evolution is what they believe. I know God made us all.

Exactly. There is evidence that evolution is real, none that God is, and yet, Christians will "know" that God did it until they die or their religion is phased out of society.

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At 5/20/09 07:01 AM, Eggy wrote:
Not that it matters for a religious argument, since christians just believe god created evolution now.

True, reading this thread reminded me of This

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I say: Bullshit...

All we are being manipulated... People's been using a mixture of monkey and human bones to fool us...

There's no such thing as evolution from the Neanderthal... We were made in an alien lab...so there is no evolution...Too bad I can't prove it...right now...


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What......so that's it.....a breakthrough has been made it today? It's official? The missing link is found? Books are going to be published of this great discovery? Newspapers will read: "Missing Link Found!!!" ??

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You're all going to gang rape me for this, but whatever :

I'm not convinced by this.
I ain't saying there's no evolution.
Maybe there is and maybe there's not.
But that thing ain't enough to be proof of it.
I'm sorry, but the thing doesn't look even slightly like a human, OR an ape.

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At 5/20/09 11:13 AM, ChristianNGer wrote: Thats because god hates evolution thus making athiests wrong and christans the smart guys!

If you want to troll, at least do it so it isn't obvious.

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Because as we all know everyone who believes in God is a christian.

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I wouldn't exactly call it a missing link, it's resembles a bit more like a lizard than an ape for some reason. I don't know why...


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At 5/20/09 10:55 AM, andhination wrote: You're all going to gang rape me for this, but whatever :

I'm not convinced by this.
I ain't saying there's no evolution.
Maybe there is and maybe there's not.
But that thing ain't enough to be proof of it.
I'm sorry, but the thing doesn't look even slightly like a human, OR an ape.

Same thought exactly

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A great find for science :D


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At 5/20/09 07:01 AM, Eggy wrote: Not that it matters for a religious argument, since christians just believe god created evolution now.

They do?! Yeah!

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At 5/20/09 10:55 AM, andhination wrote: I'm sorry, but the thing doesn't look even slightly like a human, OR an ape.

I think the media (and several people here) have got a slightly skewed idea of what this fossil means. We already have a good fossil recoed showing the transition between apes and humans, and between apes amd monkeys. What we didn't have until now was any real idea (and therefore no way to prove) what happened before that. It's like this:

mammals---early primates---???---monkeys---apes--- hominids---humans.

This fossil fills the gap in that line, meaning we can conclusively attach the part of the evolutionary tree that contains us to the rest of it. This pretty much eliminates any real argument that humans were somehow special or different from any other species or group of species (something archaeologists have been trying to do for decades).


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Bigfoots the missing link no exceptions!


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