re: First human ancestors came from Europe not Africa 7.2 million-year-old fossils indicate

I thought Republicans believed in creation. Why in the hell do Republicans even bother caring about this when you believe you were made as is by the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and the Israelites.

I thought Republicans was classify this as fake news.

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I thought Republicans believed in creation. Why in the hell do Republicans even bother caring about this when you believe you were made as is by the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and the Israelites.

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I found your problem.

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Republicans believed in creation

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I'm sure a few do.
Many do not.

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Isn't the OOA theory based on what was thought to be the oldest known Hominid Australopithecus which is commonly called "Lucy"?

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I believe that's correct. But the new finding could be the ancestor of an extinct human species -- neaderthals, for example -- rather than homo sapiens.

The term used in the article is "homonin," which refers to "the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus)."

So, what they found is a homonin in Europe way before they previously thought they were there. That raises more questions than it answers, really.

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They would have been cooked and died.

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You'd be surprised at how well our ancestors were able to adapt and thrive in different environments.

And if they find an older one in North Dakota or maybe Bolivia they will say we emerged from there.

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I thought Republicans believed in creation. Why in the hell do Republicans even bother caring about this when you believe you were made as is by the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and the Israelites. I thought Republicans was classify this as fake news.

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That's cute. You realize many/most blacks are Christian creationists right? As are hispanics. Maybe you are a minority, in a party if minorities..

The Sahara was not desert until fairly recently geologically. It was grassland during the last ice age and for a while afterwards. Desertification did not become widespread until the early Egyptian civilizations had begun building mud brick mastabas. In fact, there was still enough water to traverse the Sahara on horseback as recent as the Roman wars with Carthage.

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The idea that humans originated in sub-saharan africa and spread from there never made much sense to me. The sahara desert is nearly the size of the united states. No primitive people were crossing that desert to populate other lands. They would have been cooked and died.

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That's because the Sahara Desert wasn't formed until about 7,000 years ago. Humans had long left Africa before then.

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That's not correct.

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Before the great desert was born, North Africa had a moister, semiarid climate. A few lines of evidence, including ancient dune deposits found in Chad, had hinted that the arid Sahara may have existed at least 7 million years ago. But without a mechanism to explain how it emerged, few scientists thought that the desert we see today could really be that old. Instead, most scientists argue that the Sahara took shape just 2 to 3 million years ago. Terrestrial and marine evidence suggest that North Africa underwent a period of drying at that time, when the Northern Hemisphere started its most recent cycle of glaciation.

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Is there a theory of de-evolution?

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