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Deborah-Leigh:
http://io9.com/5893253/scientists-may-have-just-discovered-a-brand-new-species-of-human
indianabob:
More interesting fairy tales to disprove creation.
Reconstructed Neander-valley man (1856) looks a lot like my neighbor.
Indiana Bob
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http://io9.com/5893253/scientists-may-have-just-discovered-a-brand-new-species-of-human
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Revilonivek:
Here's an wiki article on the Red Deer People-
They think they're a separate humanoid species. Interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people
indianabob:
Folks,
Please note in the following description of the technique that the scientist have to assume steady state disintegrations over millennia and that conditions today are as they always have been. (?) Therefore Carbon Dating is only feasible since the earliest available sample from some time after the "mythical" worldwide flood. The technique has been tracked for accuracy for only 60 years with peer review.
Also keep in mind that people who do science for a living are no better than our politicians or the priests of Christendom. You have to hold their feet to the fire in order to be assured that their facts are not fuzzy math.
Sincerely, Indiana bob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
Radiocarbon dating (sometimes simply known as carbon dating) is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 (14C) to estimate the age of carbon-bearing materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years.[1] Raw, i.e., uncalibrated, radiocarbon ages are usually reported in radiocarbon years "Before Present" (BP), "Present" being defined as 1950. Such raw ages can be calibrated to give calendar dates. One of the most frequent uses of radiocarbon dating is to estimate the age of organic remains from archaeological sites. When plants fix atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into organic material during photosynthesis they incorporate a quantity of 14C that approximately matches the level of this isotope in the atmosphere (a small difference occurs because of isotope fractionation, but this is corrected after laboratory analysis[citation needed]). After plants die or they are consumed by other organisms (for example, by humans or other animals) the 14C fraction of this organic material declines at a fixed exponential rate due to the radioactive decay of 14C. Comparing the remaining 14C fraction of a sample to that expected from atmospheric 14C allows the age of the sample to be estimated.
The technique of radiocarbon dating was developed by Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University of Chicago in 1949. Emilio Segrč asserted in his autobiography that Enrico Fermi suggested the concept to Libby at a seminar in Chicago that year. Libby estimated that the steady state radioactivity concentration of exchangeable carbon-14 would be about 14 disintegrations per minute (dpm) per gram. In 1960, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for this work. He demonstrated the accuracy of radiocarbon dating by accurately estimating the age of wood from a series of samples for which the age was known, including an ancient Egyptian royal barge of 1850 BC.[2][3]
Stacey:
--- Quote ---First, there were the Neanderthals, which were first discovered in Germany 150 years ago and have had a firm place in the public imagination ever since. Next, there were the Denisovans, whose remains were found in Siberian caves back in late 2010. Now, we can add the Red Deer People — so named because they hunted and cooked red deer, naturally enough — to this list of our evolutionary cousins.
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All we really need to do is use our imagination and all these fun facts will fit nicely into place and we will see clearly how that we all came to be what we are today through millions and millions of millions of years of small incremental changes to the evolutionary state we are in now.
leme borrow a line from Ray used by Fester sometimes,
WHAT A CROCK!
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