[meteorite-list] Meteorite Sale - Rare Types - CambridgeEncyclopedia & More - AD

From: Mark's Meteorites <mark_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:55:43 +0100
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I'll ignore the debat about the origins of man, but this one:

>What came first. The chicken or the egg?

Has a very clear and obvious answer. The egg came first. It just wasn't a chicken's egg - dinosaurs and other egg-laying reptiles were around long before hens :)

Mark Crawford



On 27 Oct 2011, at 00:55, <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:

> Sterling,
> Okay.
> I have some real questions for you.
> What came first. The chicken or the egg?
> Seriously!
> Also, Even if your statements are true.
> Isn't there a missing link between not alive and alive?
> And couldn't man have arrived here as a man and not an ape?
> Why did it take man soooo long to develop if it derived from the soup already here?
> Thanks,
> Carl
>
>
>
>
>
> ---- "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> One. There is NO "missing link between Ape and
>> Man" since human ancestry is a "brush or shrub,"
>> not a "tree."
>>
>> Two: Lucy is either ONE of many links "between
>> Ape and Man" or One Cousin to one "link between
>> Ape and Man," of which there are probably dozens
>> of so-called "species."
>>
>> If this is confusing, just tell me WHICH of your great-
>> great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
>> (numbering 1024) you are descended from? Or is
>> it from ALL of them?
>>
>> For example, if you are a non-African, non-Asian
>> H. sap, you have up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. Is
>> H. sap. "descended from" H. neanderthalensis?
>> Well, no. On the other hand... Well, yes.
>>
>> Human thinking about "blood lines" and "ancestry"
>> is hopelessly corrupted by meaningless notions
>> derived from antiquated tripe, of which the idea of
>> the "Missing Link" is one.
>>
>> Three: There is no way (absent remarkable recovery
>> of DNA beyond present technology) to "prove" any
>> potential intermediary form actually IS intermediary
>> except for good judgment.
>>
>>
>> Sterling K. Webb
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Becky and Kirk" <bandk at chorus.net>
>> To: <geohiggins at yahoo.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
>> "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sale - Rare Types -
>> CambridgeEncyclopedia & More - AD
>>
>>
>>> I don't believe that "Lucy" has ever been proven to be the "missing
>>> link." Science knows it will have to do better than that.
>>>
>>> Australopithecine has often been debated---but never proven as such
>>> beyond any doubt. Lucy and her kind still spent most of their time in
>>> trees as I recall.
>>>
>>> Kirk.....
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com>
>>> To: <geohiggins at yahoo.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sale - Rare Types - Cambridge
>>> Encyclopedia & More - AD
>>>
>>>
>>>> On NWA 6077 / NWA 5400:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/320779119158
>>>>
>>>> "It may be the only surviving ancestor of Earth itself. The last time
>>>> such a important discovery was made is when anthropologist found Lucy
>>>> the missing link between Ape and Man."
>>>>
>>>> Hey John, or maybe the much more petrologically important link
>>>> between Luc? and L'Aigle ;-) ?
>>>>
>>>> Kindest wishes
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: John higgins <geohiggins at yahoo.com>
>>>> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>>> Sent: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 2:14 pm
>>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sale - Rare Types - Cambridge
>>>> Encyclopedia & More - AD
>>>>
>>>>
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