WASHINGTON - Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both ape and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution's first major step toward modern humans - findings some are calling a potential game-changer. An analysis of the bones found in South Africa suggests Australopithecus sediba is the most likely candidate to be the ancestor of humans, said lead researcher Lee R. Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
WASHINGTON - Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both apelike and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution's first major step toward modern humans - findings some are calling a potential game-changer. An analysis of the bones found in South Africa suggests Australopithecus sediba is the most likely candidate to be the ancestor of humans, said lead researcher Lee R. Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Reading "Al Gore's global warming-crusade shrinks" (Commentary, Wednesday) brought to mind another, even greater fraud: "molecules- to-man" evolution. This hypothesis is being taught as fact in our nation's public schools and most of our private schools and universities. That is bad enough, but far worse is that the careers of teachers and professors are at risk if they present any information to the contrary. Academic freedom is nonexistent when it comes to evolution. When evolutionists have no better explanation for the origin of life on Earth than directed panspermia - life could not have occurred spontaneously on Earth so it must have come from another planet - it is evident they are grasping at straws.
WASHINGTON - Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both apelike and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution's first major step toward modern humans - findings some are calling a potential game-changer. An analysis of the bones found in South Africa suggests Australopithecus sediba is the most likely candidate to be the ancestor of humans, said lead researcher Lee R. Berger, of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
While not disputing the undeniably important role played by oil rents, Foley suggests that the telecommunications revolution and a series of other reThosealities of the "modern" era have created new forms of politics and governance and spawned in parallel a more enlightened leadership from the familial elites. Foley points to the political evolution in places like Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar as evidence of halting steps towards more representative governments in the region that bear no relationship to the traditional tribal, familial patronage networks of the past.
Writer isn't open to science of evolution In his commentary, "Cartoonist errs in mocking God and creation" (Aug. 10), Ronald Bessette asks: "Where is the massive amount of evidence [for evolution]?" Of course the massive amount of evidence is in the vast scientific literature that not only proves that humans and other animals evolved from simpler forms of life, but also that the Earth is about 4.5 billion (not a few thousand) years old.
ITEM: Only 28 percent of high school science teachers consistently follow National Research Council guidelines encouraging them to present students with evidence of evolution. Thirteen percent "explicitly advocate creationism or intelligent design ... These are among the findings of Penn State political scientists Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer after examining data from a representative survey of 926 high school biology teachers. Writing in the Jan. 28 issue of Science magazine, they report that most science teachers - 60 percent - cheat controversy by such stratagems as telling students it does not matter if they "believe" in evolution, so long as they understand enough to pass a test. Or they teach evolution on a par with creationism and encouraging students to make up their own mi...
It is certainly the right and privilege of anyone to reject evolution. However, those who do are clearly not doing so because of the scientific issues involved. Letters published recently in The Pantagraph reveal a deep ignorance of science, proving the authors not only misguided, but apparently poorly educated as well. They have simply absorbed and regurgitated many of the false creationist objections to evolution.
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