tonymailman2 Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12059564 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Interesting - and seems to support my theory that the Neaderthal gene is still in circulation, and can be viewed at footy matches or in the Town Centre on a Friday night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 It just goes to show that one theory is as good as another. I do not doubt that we are of mixed breeds - but where it all began is really anyones guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 They're not really guessing Mary; these are educated theories based on the evidence of the fossil record - that early humans came out of Africa and spread into Europe (Neaderthals) and Asia (Denisovians). They were then followed by a second wave of "modern" humans, who probably (one way or another), wiped out these predessors. Now IF we wanted to "guess"; we'd claim, it all started with a bloke named Adam, made from clay, and a woman named Eve, made out of one of his ribs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 I know Observer - guess I wrote it different than I thought it. This is a theory - but really a theory is a guess based on a little knowledge and needs to be backed up - A LOT in order for it to be fact. What I fins so interesting is how modern man assumes that our ancestors were less human than we are, sometimes i think its the other way round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 According to the "experts"; Neanderthals were extremely strong and robust, and physically well adapted to their cold enviroment, but they wern't necessarily as capable as modern human at adapting to changes in there enviroment. It's supposed that their brains hadn't developed an ability for abstract thought, so no art or religion, or burials etc. I'm guessing, but I suspect that clever and devious modern man basically conned them out of existence! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugtifino Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 It's supposed that their brains hadn't developed an ability for abstract thought... Ah, Daily Mail readers then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 This is a theory - but really a theory is a guess based on a little knowledge and needs to be backed up - A LOT in order for it to be fact. Unfortunately, there ain't no such thing as a pure, undeniable, indisputable fact. Our whole understanding of how absolutely everything in the universe came to be, is and works right now, and is predicted to be in the future, is based on theories. A theory can never be proven to be true, it can only be demonstrated not to be in contradiction to observed reality. It only takes one little piece of contrary evidence to show up in some obscure corner of a particle or quantum physics, one piece which doesn't fit the current theoretical model, and we have to throw the whole lot out and start again with a blank sheet of paper. This has happened more times in the past few centuries than most people realise. Gallileo provided a huge step forward from the idea that the universe revolved around the Earth - but, while his theories explained much of what could be observed at the time, later and more accurate observations proved that he didn't get it all right. Newton's theories of motion were close - but ultimately also proven to be wrong. Einstein got us even closer - but even he wasn't happy that his theories covered all the bases. In recent years we have had dozens, if not hundreds, of basic theories on how everything works proposed, tested and rejected as our ability to test into the most extreme conditions found in the universe (using things like the Large Hadron Collider) has enabled us to find those pesky little bits of contrary data which upset the whole apple cart again. That's Science for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Good Lord! that's not an explanation Inky, it's a thesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 It's supposed that their brains hadn't developed an ability for abstract thought... Ah, Daily Mail readers then. I thought that was the Sun, Star and the Mirror. That's why they have pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Beat me to it Peter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Durnim Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 If you listen to the prophetic lyrics of the song ?In the year 2525 by Zagar and Evans? If God's a-coming, He oughta make it by then Maybe He'll look around Himself and say "Guess it's time for the Judgement Day" In the year 8510 God is gonna shake His mighty head He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down, and start again Makes sense to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymailman2 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Absolute classic ! way ahead of their time with these lyrics .... and so very much going to ring true at some point !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Well he's got 5 billion years before the Sun explodes into a super nova! However, I'm not sure humanity will survive the next 500 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Durnim Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Absolute classic ! way ahead of their time with these lyrics .... and so very much going to ring true at some point !! ...and here is another song predicting the future. Hazel O?Conner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymailman2 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Yep another classic ! great film also ........... 30 years on and almost all of those things are true in the lyrics of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Durnim Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Yep another classic ! great film also ........... 30 years on and almost all of those things are true in the lyrics of that. tonymailman2....I can't think of any more songs that relate to predicting the future, unless you know of some? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymailman2 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Yes, plenty ......... but the only future predictions I want at the moment are the winning numbers on Saturdays lottery ....... by the way, clever username Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 It took you a year to notice SD's clever username Tony PS forget the lottery numbers.. I've already got them and they are not for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymailman2 Posted January 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 It took you a year to notice SD's clever username Tony No ...... I just couldn't be a***d to mention it before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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