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Old 2011-01-04, 02:45   Link #11045
Vexx
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Originally Posted by GundamFan0083 View Post
Researchers: Ancient Human Remains Found In Israel

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=132365459
I really hate it when archeologists hype their discoveries as "game changing", "rewrites evolution" and other nonsense. Its just fuel for creationist dotards. It is an interesting find but the tendency to cling tightly one hypothesis or another and never consider the truth might be some combination of several hypotheses is just exasperating.

Interesting:
1) potentially 400,000 year old Homo Sapiens
2) location: region of Israel
They can't say "this proves" anything other than at least a few H. Sapiens wandered this way 400,000 years ago. Every thing else is arm-waving hyperbole at the moment. Personally, I have reservations with the overly simplistic notions of human migration these nimrods keep asserting.
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