ANOTHER Missing Link Found!!

[Mcupobob]

Maybe, just pick up the story myself. I'll let you the escapist decide!

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/found-mankinds-missing-link/story-e6frgcjx-1226133167039

NEW testing on prehistoric skeletons found in South Africa has found they are 2 million years old -- providing compelling evidence the discovery could be mankind's earliest known ancestor.

An international research team determined the age of the primitive human remains using uranium-lead dating and analysis of the flowstone surrounding them at the excavation site.

The age of the skeletons, named Australopithecus sediba -- meaning "natural spring" in the South African language of Sotho -- puts forward a strong case for the hominids being the missing link between man and ape.

The fossils were found in 2008 at the Malapa Cave site -- in an area known as the Cradle of Humankind, west of Johannesburg -- and were brought to the world's attention last year by Professor Paul Dirks from Australia's James Cook University in Townsville and Professor Lee Berger, from the University of Witwatersrand.

Second link and second news outlet to pick it up!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-video/8751396/The-missing-link-scientists-discover-our-earliest-ancestors.html

A nice video to go along with it.

 

[martin's a madman]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

 

[Mcupobob]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Yeah I know, but dammit if I didn't report on then someone else would!!

 

[Kopikatsu]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Uh...why is this needed to prove evolution? Evolution already has shitloads of evidence to support itself.

The 'hidden link' just seems like something you would shove in the face of Creationists, who would just say 'NUH-UH, GOD MADE THAT TO TEST OUR RESOLVE.' anyway. It all seems rather pointless.

 

[martin's a madman]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Uh...why is this needed to prove evolution? Evolution already has shitloads of evidence to support itself.

The 'hidden link' just seems like something you would shove in the face of Creationists, who would just say 'NUH-UH, GOD MADE THAT TO TEST OUR RESOLVE.' anyway. It all seems rather pointless.

What the hell are you going on about? Are you agreeing with me and just being very enthusiastic about it or what?

 

[Kapol]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Uh...why is this needed to prove evolution? Evolution already has shitloads of evidence to support itself.

The 'hidden link' just seems like something you would shove in the face of Creationists, who would just say 'NUH-UH, GOD MADE THAT TO TEST OUR RESOLVE.' anyway. It all seems rather pointless.

Exactly. It's like that episode of futurama. They'll just say that it's not proof because there's not another link. It's pretty sad, I think.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Uh...why is this needed to prove evolution? Evolution already has shitloads of evidence to support itself.

The 'hidden link' just seems like something you would shove in the face of Creationists, who would just say 'NUH-UH, GOD MADE THAT TO TEST OUR RESOLVE.' anyway. It all seems rather pointless.

What the hell are you going on about? Are you agreeing with me and just being very enthusiastic about it or what?

It's called Knight's Move Thinking. (Yes, that's actually a thing.)

You went in one direction, and I took part of what you said and went in a completely different direction! Well, Knight's Move Thinking refers to a single person's line of thought and not two, but...

I'm getting off topic again. You said that you hoped that people wouldn't start saying that this proves evolution...but why would they need this to prove evolution? Evolution has more than enough evidence to support itself. The only thing that finding the 'missing link' would do is go 'HUMANS WEREN'T ALWAYS HUMANS, CREATIONISTS. YOUR BELIEFS ARE STUPID.', to which they would respond with 'GOD IS JUST TESTING OUR FAITH.'

tl;dr, I don't know why THIS is what would prove evolution.

 

[martin's a madman]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Uh...why is this needed to prove evolution? Evolution already has shitloads of evidence to support itself.

The 'hidden link' just seems like something you would shove in the face of Creationists, who would just say 'NUH-UH, GOD MADE THAT TO TEST OUR RESOLVE.' anyway. It all seems rather pointless.

What the hell are you going on about? Are you agreeing with me and just being very enthusiastic about it or what?

It's called Knight's Move Thinking. (Yes, that's actually a thing.)

You went in one direction, and I took part of what you said and went in a completely different direction! Well, Knight's Move Thinking refers to a single person's line of thought and not two, but...

I'm getting off topic again. You said that you hoped that people would start saying that this proves evolution...but why would they need this to prove evolution? Evolution has more than enough evidence to support itself. The only thing that finding the 'missing link' would do is go 'HUMANS WEREN'T ALWAYS HUMANS, CREATIONISTS. YOUR BELIEFS ARE STUPID.', to which they would respond with 'GOD IS JUST TESTING OUR FAITH.'

tl;dr, I don't know why THIS is what would prove evolution.

Perhaps you should read my first post again and pay closer attention?

 

[artanis_neravar]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Uh...why is this needed to prove evolution? Evolution already has shitloads of evidence to support itself.

The 'hidden link' just seems like something you would shove in the face of Creationists, who would just say 'NUH-UH, GOD MADE THAT TO TEST OUR RESOLVE.' anyway. It all seems rather pointless.

What the hell are you going on about? Are you agreeing with me and just being very enthusiastic about it or what?

It's called Knight's Move Thinking. (Yes, that's actually a thing.)

You went in one direction, and I took part of what you said and went in a completely different direction! Well, Knight's Move Thinking refers to a single person's line of thought and not two, but...

I'm getting off topic again. You said that you hoped that people would start saying that this proves evolution...but why would they need this to prove evolution? Evolution has more than enough evidence to support itself. The only thing that finding the 'missing link' would do is go 'HUMANS WEREN'T ALWAYS HUMANS, CREATIONISTS. YOUR BELIEFS ARE STUPID.', to which they would respond with 'GOD IS JUST TESTING OUR FAITH.'

tl;dr, I don't know why THIS is what would prove evolution.

I believe he said he hopes people don't use it to prove evolution. Just pointing it out

 

[Kopikatsu]

Perhaps you should read my first post again and pay closer attention?

I believe he said he hopes people don't use it to prove evolution. Just pointing it out

Yeah, it was a typo. I meant to say 'wouldn't'.

 

[Twilight_guy]

They fixed that dead link on the... of you mean in evolution... not a missing Hypertext link...

Cool. Biologist usually go nuts over that stuff but I don't much get it. There is still lots of stuff to discover and study in the tree of life.

 

[artanis_neravar]

Perhaps you should read my first post again and pay closer attention?

I believe he said he hopes people don't use it to prove evolution. Just pointing it out

Yeah, it was a typo. I meant to say 'wouldn't'

I thought as much, but it worked both ways, and I know assuming makes an ass out of you.

 

[Worgen]

Its annoying that it needs to be a big deal since no matter how many missing link they find, some asshole is like "well we are still missing a link so obviously creationism is right" doesn't help that we just finished a presidential debate here that had pretty much all the candidates saying that creationism is true.

 

[HT_Black]

Two words: Piltdown Man.

Time will tell.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I cant wait for the farnsworth vs monkey evolution speech to pop up.

Anyway, yeah, that pretty much actually says all I want to say. There will always be a missing link, though I thought we found a little girl in like, sudan or something taht was over 4 million years old and we named her lucy?

 

[lawrie001]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Does sound like your not convinced evolution is fact yet. and the reason its 'missing link' all the time is because scientists say that its the earliest ancestor for mankind which means it gets nearer and nearer to a common ancestor with apes, which means all the papers overhype with the missing link thing....

Btw if you need proof of evolution take any virus or bacteria and youll see evolution happen in real time due to them adapting to drugs and becoming resistant strains.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

And instantly the evolution/creationism debate begins. Still, cool bones bro! XD

[sub]I'll let time and endless reports on these things decide what I'll think of it.[/sub]

 

[NightHawk21]

I actually had an anthropology teacher who studies human and mammoth skeletons and you know why you hear about the missing link once and then there's never an update on the story, becuase most of the time the researchers misintrept the skeleton or say it could possibly be a new ancestor and the media blows it way out of proportion. More often than not, its a species that has already been known and found.

 

[Asita]

Two words: Piltdown Man.

Time will tell.

One sentence: Piltdown Man's true nature was revealed by the very men that creationists try to discredit with it.

 

[martin's a madman]

Not a big deal, every so often there's a new 'missing link' story. It's really blown out of proportion in terms of importance.

It's neat how old it is, but I just hope people don't start getting excited and claim this is the thing that 'proves' evolution.

Does sound like your not convinced evolution is fact yet. and the reason its 'missing link' all the time is because scientists say that its the earliest ancestor for mankind which means it gets nearer and nearer to a common ancestor with apes, which means all the papers overhype with the missing link thing....

Btw if you need proof of evolution take any virus or bacteria and youll see evolution happen in real time due to them adapting to drugs and becoming resistant strains.

I thought italics would be enough.