CathyG's Comments
"there was once a creature on this earth (early version of man to say) that is not the same as us."
Ardi's not the same as us because 4.4 million years is a lot of time for evolution to bring about significant change.
"This proves that there was a race of man on this earth before adam and was later wiped out along with the dinosaurs."
First of all, Ardi doesn't appear to have had the intelligence to make tools, tame fire, hold a conversation or conceive of God. So it's a way big stretch to call her human. Secondly, do you really believe that dinosaurs and Ardi co-existed?
Sheeeeeeesh.
Ardi's not the same as us because 4.4 million years is a lot of time for evolution to bring about significant change.
"This proves that there was a race of man on this earth before adam and was later wiped out along with the dinosaurs."
First of all, Ardi doesn't appear to have had the intelligence to make tools, tame fire, hold a conversation or conceive of God. So it's a way big stretch to call her human. Secondly, do you really believe that dinosaurs and Ardi co-existed?
Sheeeeeeesh.
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The part of the story that struck me as both interesting and confusing is that Ardi has the grasping foot of a chimpanzee but walked upright on two feet. Why would she need both? If you're walking on two feet, how can you also be spending so much time in trees that you have to have great tree climbing feet?
For the creationists - since you don't believe in evolution then you don't have to worry about flu viruses evolving. If you've had the flu once, you'll never get it again because the virus will never change, never evolve.
Soooo, please quit getting flu vaccines for yourselves and your children. It seems that there are shortages nearly every year, so if you believers in bible science want to live your creed, you can opt out of the vaccines, leaving more for the rest of us.
Thank you, we'll put them to good use.
For the creationists - since you don't believe in evolution then you don't have to worry about flu viruses evolving. If you've had the flu once, you'll never get it again because the virus will never change, never evolve.
Soooo, please quit getting flu vaccines for yourselves and your children. It seems that there are shortages nearly every year, so if you believers in bible science want to live your creed, you can opt out of the vaccines, leaving more for the rest of us.
Thank you, we'll put them to good use.
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Yes, I think it must have been an intermediate stage, too. It's just hard to imagine what set of competitive pressures would bring a woodland inhabiting creature, with physical characteristics that enabled her to be a very efficient tree climber/dweller to also stand up and walk around on two feet. As the documentary points out, bipedalism is inefficient and slow. What advantage did it offer to Ardi? I guess I wasn't convinced by the argument that it allowed males to bring breakfast in bed to their mates.
As my husband and I and our friends have aged and begun to experience increasing stiffness in our backs and hips, I've come to believe that this bipedal design of ours must be a work in progress. Hopefully, all the kinks will be ironed out before another 4 million years pass.
I think an interpretation of the Judeo-Christian creation story that allows for days that last hundreds of millions of years is much more sensible than strict, literal interpretations.