Hah, this topic is also in the General Discussion area, and they're talking more about hobbits than humanoids.
That's a wacky article seemingly attempting to bait creationists on a number of levels, but it's right in line with questions like 'what did H. sapiens do to H. neaderthalensis?'. I just wanted to point out that creationism is a cultural belief structure, and evolutionary biology is a science. The primary difference is how each comes to know what it knows. One is a skeptical research-oriented methodology based on empiricism. The other relies on authority. The very fact that empirical knowledge is subject to falsification is a good indication that evolutionary biology is the appropriate venue for finds like this.
I've heard creationists say that science is a religion, or alter the definition of 'science', but the above is the key difference between creation-theory and evolutionary biology. I'm happy to PM with anyone who either doesn't want to discuss publicly, would do so in a way that violates the religious discussion ban, or just wants to call me names lol.
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Which brings up an even more intriguing question: does Mini-Man perform special burial rituals and does he therefore believe in an afterlife?
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Neanderthals did, and they were on the out-and-out 30,000 years ago.
[ 10-29-2004, 04:52 PM: Message edited by: Lucern ]