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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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"Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul..."
Mark Twain
"Ideology is a poor substitute for rational thought..."
Afarensis
"It isn't faith that makes good science...it's curiosity"
Prof. Jacob Barnhardt, The Day the Earth Stood Still
"This man wishes to be accorded the same privilege as a sponge. He wishes to think!"
Clarence Darrow, Inherit the Wind
"...I become fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason..."
Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still
"I want you to grab life by its little bunny ears and get in its face..."
The Simpsons
"This is between me and the vegetable..."
Seymour Krelborn, The Little Shop of Horrors
"There are bad laws and cruel laws and the people who enforce them are both bad and cruel..."
Thea, Isle of the Dead
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Jean- Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
"But the limit of tolerance for these human foibles is obtained when the proponent of a questionable scientific doctrine endeavors to maintain it against all possible odds by misrepresentation, misinformation and suppression of contradictory data, and by insinuating unfairness in opponents of his views."
Franz Weidenreich, Morphology of Solo Man
"Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconcious, impersonal material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny."
George Gaylord Simpson, Life of the Past
Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the phd,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the phd,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
Unknown
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Frederich Nietzsche
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The Declaration of Independence
Category: Creationism
Over at UD Denyse O'Leary is all twitterpated over this news story. The news item concerns a paper accepted for publication in the journal Advances in the Study of Behavior. The paper hasn't been published yet, so we are dependent...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 1:53 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Creationism
This one comes to us courtesy of Casey Luskin at Evolution News and Views. In a post discussing the NCSE's views on the supernatural Casey says: Eugenie Scott better reign in her staff members or the NCSE will not only...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 1:58 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
It's the Apocalypse! Dogs and cats are living in sin and everything! Run for your lives! After post after post smearing Darwin DaveScot cried foul: Since we now seem to be focused on racism instead of design detection and my...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 5:04 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I have received the following email to forward to Casey Luskin....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 11:16 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our australopithecine dead. - from the Australopithecine version of Henry V Over at UD Denyse mentions a friend who visited Lucy. The friend was not...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:00 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I always get a great deal of amusement when Luskin writes about paleoanthropology.His latest effort is no exception. Casey, you see, has been studying about Lucy and of fossils pertaining to human evolution for years, and even links to the...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 2:48 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Creationism
As John Lynch points out Explore Evolution has received another bad review. Like the previous review the new review, by Brian Metscher, is less than positive. The review is published in Evolution and Development and does not pull any punches....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Blogs of Note
Glenn Branch of the NCSE comes up with an excellent comparison for creationism in this excellent post on the threat to science education in Texas. Creationism, and its cheaper cousin Intelligent Design, have been repeatedly proven false, yet like the...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 7:50 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Insanity
ERV alerted me to Luskins latest attempt to, well, um, I'm not sure what because all he succeeds in doing is undermining several ID talking points. ERV tackles Luskin's post in her own inimitable style (linked to above) but I...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 9:23 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Blogs of Note
Kambiz has an excellent post on the recent news about the recent research comparing Middle and Upper Paleolithic tool sets....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 1:54 PM • 4 Comments •
