Posted by
Sue on Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:20:49 PM
10/10/2009 7:28pm PST
They've found ARDI!! At this rate I am just a hop, skip and a jump from that 7 million year man! Ardi is the name they have given to the latest, that has been announced, archaelogy discovery in Ethiopia, Africa. The oldest, hominin creature that may be the missing link. I personally don't think so, and I just hope to live long enough to find out.
When I first picked up the Time-Life book on "Ancient" Man over fifty years ago, I was fired up! Imagine, not Creation but evolution!! I could get with that for sure. Fast forward to today, 2009, and we pretty much have full assurances that we, homo sapiens, do not descend from monkeys, apes or chimpanzees. As a matter of fact, monkeys and apes arch out from our hominin line and the chimpanzees may well come from our line also, but, more directly.
10/11/2009 10:50am PST
If you haven't given up yet, let me say first that I believe in Evolution Creation. In other words, I cannot, nor can anyone say now or in the future, that there is or is not a God. I went from being religious to losing it, regaining it and then throwing it out. But I have never lost faith. The faith to know that if you do not believe in basic human values, you are doomed. Doomed to what? I do not know and don't want to find out. My Catholic indoctrination still works, even today, more than half a century later. Indoctrination is a dangerous thing and a good thing, because. I firmly believe that a goodly portion of humans are fence sitters....there are those who have faith on the right, those who do not on the left and the majority jump from one side to the other depending on just how faithful they need to be or what they are trying to get
away with. The majority do not wish to find out about the "beyond", but, they'll take chances on cheating, lying, stealing, etc. They are wrong. Dawkins and Hitchens, both foreign, are self professed atheists. I have watched interviews with both of this men and I wonder then and now, why are they so angry that those of us who do, still exist. Talk about elitist! But, here is the funny thing, they condemn anyone who has any belief at all...that's very close to half the earth's population. I don't count the Chinese because it's been seventy years and although they have not succeeded in getting rid of religion or faith, they have cut the numbers. Most probably don't even know what I'm talking about.
Along comes Ardipithecus, Ardi for short, discovered in 1992-1993 and don't ask me why they waited fifteen years
to let us know what was happening. I know this because it a passion of mine and I have done all I can as a lay person to stay current!! His scientific name is actually "ardipithecus ramidus"...the ramidus is like the oldest connection. It was a word I memorized and it only took 5 decades to have it verified. But, the reason I don't think this is the actual missing link is because anything as big as Ardi is, would have probably not survived, in my humble opinion. More likely the real Ardi was a very small mammal, a night creature that survived because the dinosaurs were wiped out. As I said, perhaps I'll know the truth if I live long enough.