Two million-year-old skull of human cousin found by Australian team in South African cave [theguardian.com] HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE DOES RELIGION NEED?
To the religious mind, prejudice trumps evidence 100% of the time. I no longer waste my time on such deadheads.
The believers don't care about evidence. Their faith of the unseen, in the absence of evidence, is what sustains their subculture.
....been all over the news yesterday
...just sooooo much evidence for our evolvement
No amount of evidence will satisfy them because they already have all the answers LOL
It is not that simple. Religious people think that they are "special" because of their beliefs. They envision themselves as "better" than everybody else. They are not about to give up their beliefs, because that would mean they are just like everybody else. They prefer to live in a fantasy world where they are "special".
Why do you think "religion " needs anymore evidence?
In a survey of 909 people, 77% of its respondents in India agreed that enough scientific evidence exists to support Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, and 85% of God-believing people said they agree with evolution as well.[6][7] According to the survey conducted by Pew Forum in the United States, 80% of Hindus agree that evolution is the best explanation for the origin of human life on earth.[8] [en.m.wikipedia.org].
It will be rationalized away. When I was a kid, I remember a newly minted Sunday school teacher who had attended a Christian college who told us that the skulls presented as evidence of evolution were too few to be acceded as proof of evolution. But then, I remember another Sunday school teacher telling the class that woman were created from Adams rib and that is why women "have one less rib than men." For those who have not studied anatomy, they both have the same number of ribs.
Even if that were the case, I fail to see how such a result would follow. To me it would make more sense if all men were missing one of their ribs.
@dahermit On the subject of ribs, fourty percent of us humans have ribs that are missing, fused, or not fully developed. I am missing two ribs.
@dahermit Surprisingly often, people have extra or missing ribs and vertebrae. Most people have a pair of floating ribs at the bottom of the ribcage (ribs 11 and 12), but a few have a third stubby little floating rib (13), and even fewer[painscience.com]
@PondartIncbendog There you go...proof that a woman was made from your ribs.
Not all religions are young-earth creationists that deny evolution. Of course, this opens an entirely new can of worms for Catholics, for example.
If it was an Australian team it's probably a case of incest.
The find was about a 47km drive from here I stay in Johannesburg about a 50min drive.