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Title: Newly Found Ancient Skull Could Rewrite Human History
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URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_1 ... l-could-rewrite-human-history/
Published: Oct 17, 2013
Author: By Jim Axelrod
Post Date: 2013-10-17 23:57:21 by Brian S
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Views: 16229
Comments: 27
(CBS News) Humanity's family tree may need some pruning. The discovery of an ancient skull has revealed clues that could shake up the accepted theories of human evolution.
From the moment they discovered the skull buried under a village in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, scientists knew they had something applause-worthy.
At 1.8 million years old, the skull may do nothing less than rewrite the history of humanity.
"It's an almost perfectly complete skull," said Jamie Shreeve, executive science editor for National Geographic, "and because of that, it has a lot of information."
"Skull 5," as it's known, belonged to an adult male with a large jutting jaw and brain case less than half the size of a human today. Four other partial skulls were found with it, dating from the same time but with great variations from each other -- the same kind of variations seen in modern humans.
"We don't call modern human pygmies and Eskimos different species obviously," said Shreeve, "and so they think we should not call these things a different species, too."
Meaning that instead of many branches in our evolutionary family tree thought to lead to us, like homo habilis and homo ergaster, they may all have just been one: homo erectus.
"You have to be really careful with this," said Shreeve, "because in paleoanthropology you are measuring individuals in order to make conclusions about whole populations or whole species."
Like evolution itself, the understanding of it is a work in progress.
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the skull may do nothing less than rewrite the history of humanity.
Interesting find. But history doesn't change. What happened happened.
#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
But history doesn't change. What happened happened.
History does change with new discoveries. Why is your mind so closed?
What's your opinion on the Shroud of Turin?
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
History does change with new discoveries. Why is your mind so closed?What's your opinion on the Shroud of Turin?
We learn more things about history. But it doesn't change. Some things are thrown out because they are crap.
But the Bible is the true early history and it doesn't change.
The Shroud could be real or fake. I don't know. I would like it to be authentic. But if it isn't it doesn't make any difference as to what God said about how we should behave and what is going to happen.
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3)
But the Bible is the true early history and it doesn't change.
Your bible was written by a king in order to keep you thinking like a serf.
#5. To: mininggold (#4)
Your bible was written by a king in order to keep you thinking like a serf.
What in the Bible makes you think like a serf?
What was translated incorrectly.
You're as stupid as the ferret witch.
All these years and you have never been able to provide one citation of something in the Bible that is incorrect.
You are the serf on your knees taking it from the Kenyan.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#3) (Edited)
The Shroud could be real or fake. I don't know. I would like it to be authentic.
This program ran on the History Channel latest year. It's well worth watching.
Basically computer scientists have shown that the image on the shroud encodes 3D information, as if the shroud was draped over a person's face while the image was being made.
They also demonstrated that the image could have only been made using a process similar to modern photo copying machines (using a thin beam of light that scans across the thing being copied), which have only existing for 50 years or so.
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#7. To: mininggold, A K A Stone (#4)
"Your bible was written by a king in order to keep you thinking like a serf."
murron: "The bible was written by men of faith, not kings.
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Moses wrote bible books from Genesis through Deuteronomy;
Joshua wrote the book of Joshua;
Samuel wrote Judges, Ruth; Samuel,
Gad and Nathan wrote 1Samuel; 2Samuel;
Jeremiah wrote 1 and 2 Kings;
Ezra wrote 1 and 2Chronicles and Ezra;
Nehemiah wrote Nehemiah;
Mordecai wrote Esther;
Moses wrote Job;
David wrote Psalms; Solomon, Agur,
Lemuel wrote Proverbs;
Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon;
Isaiah wrote Isaiah;
Jeremiah wrote Jeremiah and Lamentations;
Ezekiel wrote Ezekiel;
Daniel wrote Daniel; Hosea wrote Hosea;
Joel wrote Joel;
Amos wrote Amos;
Obadiah wrote Obadiah;
Jonah wrote Jonah;
Micah wrote Micah;
Nahum wrote Nahum;
Habakkuk wrote Habakkuk;
Zephaniah wrote Zephaniah;
Haggai wrote Haggai;
Zechariah wroe Zechariah;
Malachi wrote Malachi;
Matthew wrote Matthew;
Mark wrote Mark;
Luke wrote Luke;
John wrote John;
Luke wrote Acts;
Paul wrote Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians , 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews;
James (Jesus brother) wrote James;
Peter wrote 1 and 2 Peter; Apostle
John wrote 1,2 and 3rd John;
Jude (Jesus brother) wrote Jude;
Apostle John wrote Revelation
(Thomas Jefferson: "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.")
#8. To: mininggold (#4)
"Your bible was written by a king in order to keep you thinking like a serf."
murron: The bible was written for you too, mininggold, whether you choose to believe, or not. Mocking His word is the choice you have made, and I feel sorry for your children if they have not been taught that you all will someday be brought together again as a family, in heaven.
mininggold, If you were lost, and had never heard the Gospel, then I believe God would forgive your ignoranace and your mocking His word but...once you've heard His word and know what He asks of you, then you cannot go back and feign ignorance as an excuse. No one in your life, nor on any website can help you now, your belief, or disbelief of His word, is a private matter between you and Him now! jmho!
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Ephesians 4:18
"They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart."
"God once overlooked the ignorance of the Gentiles, but now demands repentance - Acts 17:30-31
(Thomas Jefferson: "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.")
#9. To: Murron (#7)
Someone should put a pillow over her face.
#10. To: A K A Stone (#5)
What in the Bible makes you think like a serf?What was translated incorrectly.
You're as stupid as the ferret witch.
All these years and you have never been able to provide one citation of something in the Bible that is incorrect.
You are the serf on your knees taking it from the Kenyan.
Yet you can't dispute the Bible was created from by a king and later revised by another king. To keep serfs like you quiet, obedient and happy with the crumbs they throw at you.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Someone should put a pillow over her face.
Poor baby serfboy. The truth must hurt.
#12. To: Murron (#7)
Moses wrote bible books from Genesis through Deuteronomy; .......
You can't even prove those people ever existed. Other than counterparts in related and much older myths and fables spread by oral traditions. Which means they were never originally written down by the reputed authors.
#13. To: mininggold (#12)
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
#14. To: Brian S (#0)
"You have to be really careful with this," said Shreeve, "because in paleoanthropology you are measuring individuals in order to make conclusions about whole populations or whole species."
Brian thanks for the article. Saw a similar one about a week ago. The quote above is encouraging. They have one skull and the other skulls around it seem to be within "norms." Glad to see some honest scientists wanting to be careful because of all the previous enthusiastic failures we have seen before like "Lucy".
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
#15. To: mininggold (#10)
Yet you can't dispute the Bible was created from by a king and later revised by another king. To keep serfs like you quiet, obedient and happy with the crumbs they throw at you.
Which king would that be? James? I ask because we have several autographs and a multitude of manuscripts of both the OT and NT. Is it you claim some European king made up the Bible?
This should be interesting.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
#16. To: Murron, mininggold, A K A Stone (#7)
Thanks Murron. This should be a help for those that REALLY want to dig into this:
errantskeptics.org/NT_Authors.ht m
The entire site is chock full of data for the serious and casual skeptic:
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
#17. To: mininggold (#12)
You can't even prove those people ever existed.
Did Nebuchadnezzar ever exist? How about Genghis Khan; or even Julius Caesar, how about him, how do we know about him?
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
#18. To: redleghunter (#17)
Which king would that be? James? I ask because we have several autographs and a multitude of manuscripts of both the OT and NT. Is it you claim some European king made up the Bible?Did Nebuchadnezzar ever exist? How about Genghis Khan; or even Julius Caesar, how about him, how do we know about him?
You just went in over her head.
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
#19. To: mininggold (#11)
"Poor baby serfboy. The truth must hurt."
You need nerve tissue existing on the brain level to feel pain. Stone feels no pain. he is a walking dog turd on ones path of travel. All he knows how to do is stink.
~ Helen Keller
#20. To: mininggold (#12)
You can't even prove those people ever existed.
You can't prove they didn't. There's more evidence the did exist than didn't.
#21. To: Ferret Mike (#19)
Stone feels no pain. he is a walking dog turd on ones path of travel. All he knows how to do is stink.
#22. To: A K A Stone (#21)
~ Helen Keller
#23. To: A K A Stone (#21)
~ Helen Keller
#24. To: A K A Stone (#21)
~ Helen Keller
#25. To: A K A Stone (#21)
#26. To: redleghunter (#16)
You're welcome...
(Thomas Jefferson: "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.")
#27. To: Ferret Mike (#24)
Stone believes in censorship and a 6,000 year old earth. Go figure.
What did you say?
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