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Jack Chick proposes an alternative to the Strong Force
The Peon replied to bascule's topic in Speculations
Without Jesus you would fly into outerspace. He holds us to the earth! Where is your respect? -
I do. And to a great extent the evidence backs up the theory greatly. It most likely is fact, and probobly occured practically identically along the lines as science portrays it.
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Meh, I thought I was reading proof. <------ the stupid?
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http://www.aquaticape.org/ Pretty cool site I have been reading the past 10 minutes.
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Youre wrong on two accounts. A> Neanderthals actually had larger on the average brains then Sapiens B> The larynx tissue is not known, and was actually wider (IIRC) then Sapiens. This could produce complicated sounds like Sapiens, but at a higher pitch. Seeing that Neanderthals had weapons and culture, its hard to imagine they didnt have a complicated vocal system. (good joke though )
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Wow that rocks. I can fully understand the heat difference between a bipedal homonid in the african sun, compared to a quadripedal anything. So in effect, standing up caused alot of #($% to go haywire.
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Are Caucasoids slight hybrids of Homo Sapien and Homo Neanderthalis? Do the genes of Neanderthals still flourish in certain gene pools? These are shocking and taboo questions that most dont wish to face up to. In this thread, I will present one side of the scientific debate which tries to answer that question. I will start simple. Lets take a look at Homo Sapien today, at war and in love. Written History, a good blueprint for our psychological makeup shows us that rarely would conquerers completely destroy the conquered. Instead, the individuals deemed able to assist the conquered in some way are spared and enslaved or assimilated into the dominating culture. This applies to almost all major cultures and to most minor ones. At the very least, females are spared to be used for sexual and other purposes by the conquerers. Now use your imagination.. Homo Sapien encounters Neaderthals, and clearly dominates the enviroment. More and more evidence shows why this occured, and a good part of it was enviroment and technology. Sapiens simply outcompeted them. But would Sapiens really remain totally xenophobic, or vice versa for over 10,000 yeas of living "side by side?" Surely, some love in addition to the war must have occured. By love I mean sex, and it could have occured from conquering, exchange, mutual attraction, or rape. "But the genes are pretty different after 200,000 years of being seperated" some might say. But the lack of evidence is not evidence. Just because we assume the genes to not be compatible does not mean a Hybrid couldnt have been produced. In fact, I will quote on a skeleton found in Portugal fairly recently: "Known as the Child of Lapedo, the skeleton shows traits of modern man, including the jaw, teeth and spleen, and Neanderthal features like the size of the femur and tibia, according to Zilhao. Carbon dating shows the skeleton is about 25,000 years old, Zilhao said. Other evidence has shown that the Neanderthals and modern man coexisted in the area about 28,000 to 30,000 years ago. Because the skeleton dates from 3,000 years later and displays strong anatomical features of both origins, Zilhao concludes that hybridization was very deep." The Iberian peninsula is the last bastion the Neanderthals would have had against the approaching onslaught of Homo Sapien. Any sort of co-interaction would have had its last breath here, as the Neanderthals found they had there back against the "wall" so to speak, and that is why the location of the Hybrid is so important. Now lets look at some genetic traits of the Caucasoids. Through Mitochondrial DNA we know the oldest Sapiens on Earth are in Africa, and by tracing genes and knowing climates of the past, its clear Mongoloids lived in colder enviroments long before Caucasoids came on the scene. They developed lighter skin, but retained many of the Negroid features they inherited from the past they shared with the Negroids. Flatter noses, brown eyes, and dark hair. None of the Caucasoid cold adaptations such as light colored eyes, a larger pointier nose, or light colored hair, even larger calf muscles appeared in the Mongoloid gene pool, yet the Caucasoids have them. Now using alittle logic, in the fact that Caucasoids lived in colder climates for a shorter period of time then the mongoloids, and given the fact that Neanderthals had 200,000 years to adapt to the cold, and suddenly caucasoids developed these traits, you can see what I am getting to. Its clear most of the Sapien genetic traits are still dominant and in the forefront, especially given that the climate was warming rapidly and few of the more pronounced Neanderthal features would have been needed or were likely to persist over the more tropical adapted negroid descendants. And the evidence continues to mount: "Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford were quoted by The Times as saying the so-called "ginger gene" which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100 000 years old. They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200 000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40 000 years ago. Rosalind Harding, the research team leader, told The Times: "The gene is certainly older than 50 000 years and it could be as old as 100 000 years. " To think Neanderthals left NONE of the legacy they forged in Europe in our genes in quite inane in my opinion. We must open up to the fact that in evolution, crazier things have happened and nothing is insulting or degrading about Caucasoids having Neaderthalic genes.
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Can we go to Mars and get some microbes from the ice caps to show that life happens everywhere? What will ID believers state when life is proven to be a naturally occuring part of terraforming in certain conditions?
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I have been looking for weeks for a good answer to this question, and have yet to find one that makes total sense. Why are humans the only primate to lose its hair? One of the best explanations that I read to date said that when humans were almost extinct we resorted to being fishermen, and as aquatic apes it was more beneficial to lose the hair in favor of sweat glands. Another good explanation was sexual selection.. less hair meant more skin contact which heightened sexual pleasure, and as emerging intelligent thinkers and sex machines, it was sexually selected into us. Would love to know what others think.
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"Penis Friction Burn" LMAO Im sure with some medical conditions sex might cause complications... But only severe medical conditions. Most of the physiological effects of sex are beneficial to the average human organism.
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Have you ever seen the old fighter planes flown in WWII ? --Yes. Have you ever seen the fighter planes of today? --Yes. Are they similar? --Yes, they are. Does this prove F-15's came from the old WWII planes. --No. ________________________________________________________ And now the factual response. Have you ever seen the old fighter planes flown in WWII ? --Yes. Have you ever seen the fighter planes of today? --Yes. Are they similar? --Yes, they are. Does this prove F-15's came from the old WWII planes. --*YES!* The same concepts which allowed a WWII plane to fly was carried over and evolved into a more advanced fighter type. Why this is even relevent in this conversation is pointless *imagines 2 korean war planes humping to produce the F15 *, given a fighter plane is a machine and only the concept evolves.
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*jumps back into the discussion flailing a spear and torch around wildly while hooting, springing the ambush he preplanned at camp with his tribesman, and slays a massive kodiac bear with the aid of his partners and some nifty spearmanship* One of Humanitys greatest strengths in my opinion: We dislike death more then any other creature. Our will to survive.
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Lucid Dreams as good as regular REM?
The Peon replied to Nevermore's topic in Psychiatry and Psychology
I have not recalled any dreams for about over a year now. Is that a good thing? Does that mean I am sleeping deeper? I mean, I am sure I am having dreams but I never can recall them anymore.. and I have not had a nightmare in many many years. -
The biggest moron in the Universe (I thought kkk were bad)
The Peon replied to The Peon's topic in The Lounge
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Grow up. You are not so humble yourself. Im done with this discussion.
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Actually, IIRC the retina has 3 color shaders in the human eye, red green and blue. These are the same for any "normal" human and thus its clear we see color the same way. Other animals have various other eye gizmos, like mirrored retinas etc, which give them added features to the eyes they have. Its not a mystery how we see colors, and can be explained scientifically.
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While this is true, some would always break through and figure these things out. I find it hard to believe that out of even a pool of 10,000 humans enough would not survive to continue the species. We are also forgetting a good point here, and that being that humans are the only species with enough courage if you will, to wield fire and not run from it. That is a huge evolutionary step, one which probobly propelled us into stardome, above all other techonological advancements. And it took courage, not technology, to reach out and harness fire (most likely from a lightning strike at first).
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The biggest moron in the Universe (I thought kkk were bad)
The Peon replied to The Peon's topic in The Lounge
You admire Crook for his one ability (which isnt even well executed) and throw away all the other garbage he stated? -
*shrugs* You win.
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Ok this semantic gymnastics is wearing me out.