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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Bama Brian
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:25
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Sam Bam wrote:
> Bama Brian wrote:
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>> Sam Bam wrote:
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>>> Bama Brian wrote:
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>>>> Sam Bam wrote:
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>>>>> Daniel Packman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <6LTPd.2079075$f47.364499@news.easynews.com>,
>>>>>> Sam Bam  <sam@bam.slam> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bama Brian wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What holes are those, Harold?
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Incomplete fossil record.
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>>>>>> Not incomplete at all.
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>>>>> Lucy ain't boning us all.
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> If you're going to duck the issue, then there's no reason to post 
>>>> anything, SB.
>>>>
>>>> But if you'd like to learn something:
>>>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/low_bandwidth.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> 9 missing records there.
>>>
>>> http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0714_Lucy_fails_test.html
>>>
>>> But hold on, the story gets better. Dr. Johanson gave a lecture at 
>>> the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Nov. 20, 1986, on Lucy and 
>>> why he thinks she is our ancestor. It included the ideas already 
>>> mentioned and that Lucy's femur and pelvis were more robust than most 
>>> chimps and therefore, "could have" walked upright. After the lecture 
>>> he opened the meeting for questions. The audience of approximately 
>>> 800 was quiet so some creationists asked questions. Roy Holt asked; 
>>> "How far away from Lucy did you find the knee?" (The knee bones were 
>>> actually discovered about a year earlier than the rest of Lucy). Dr. 
>>> Johanson answered (reluctantly) about 200 feet lower (!) and two to 
>>> three kilometers away (about 1.5 miles!). Continuing, Holt asked
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>> Yeah, I've heard this one before.  Holt asked Johanson questions and 
>> took his replies out of context and deliberately misquoted 
> 
> 
> Yawn...
> 
> 
> typical unfounded reply

Yeah, you didn't bother to read Johanson's rebuttal, did you?

Typical bible thumper.  Got your eyes squeezed shut and your ears 
plugged so nothing new can get in.

-- 
Cheers,
Bama Brian
Libertarian
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