Early Human Ancestor, Australopithecus Sediba, Fossils Discovered in Rock

[The Black Jester]

"We have discovered parts of a jaw and critical aspects of the body including what appear to be a complete femur (thigh bone), ribs, vertebrae and other important limb elements, some never before seen in such completeness in the human fossil record," says Berger. "This discovery will almost certainly make Karabo the most complete early human ancestor skeleton ever discovered. We are obviously quite excited as it appears that we now have some of the most critical and complete remains of the skeleton, albeit encased in solid rock. It's a big day for us as a team and for our field as a whole."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120712162744.htm

[markmcdaniel]

The puzzle thit is human evolution is getting closer to completion.

[Tank]

Another bit in the jigsaw comes to light 

[OldGit]

Forget it.  God hid these fossils in the rocks to test our faith, when he created the world 6,000 years ago.

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It is indeed an exciting and interesting find, but it won't change the religious picture - most rational people didn't need more proof of evolution, and the creationists will react as above.

[Icarus]

Naaah Git, it was really way more than 6000 years ago. Don't tell the fundies about this but......................The June 2012 issue of National Geographic had  something to say about the timeline.  The Mag article is titled; The Birth Of Religion. It revolves around the archeological digs of a place in Turkey that they are calling Gobeki Tepe. It seems that the digs have revealed rather elaborate temple like structures that date to 13,000 BC ( BCE if you prefer).  Amazingly, the temple has collossal sandstone pillars that weigh ten tons or more. This is remarkable in that the pillars had to have been moved from a quarry nearby without benefit of wheels or animals of burden.

The archeologists are divided about whether this is evidence of the emergence of agriculture that would have lead to a settlement but in the absence of any evidence of a settlement. These structures are seen by other acheological types as the first clearcut evidence of a society with religious tendencies. They posit that this was a religious site that attracted people from afar. But there is little or no evidence of the large number of workers who would have been needed to build such a structure. The timeline coincides with the the recession of the ice age and the geography and meterological conditions at the time.

Musta' been those damned extraterrestials who did this.  Oddly, the OT or the NT does not mention ET interference in the creation scenario. Hey, maybe the ET types could not swim and the great deluge did them all in. I think it was those ETs who left the watch on the beach just to mess up our heads.

[markmcdaniel]

What kind of wimpy extra terrestrials are these. Wiped out by a measly planetary flood.