tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post8121139105595372278..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : Science Teachers and CreationismAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-38475107637417950042011-01-29T14:36:20.067-08:002011-01-29T14:36:20.067-08:00Thanks for the clarification, Alice. Now that I s...Thanks for the clarification, Alice. Now that I see we're definitely on the same page, I will continue with my series on Genesis as Icon. Next section will be the Genesis accounts as an icon of the origins of Man.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-36280444656461536292011-01-29T07:35:18.815-08:002011-01-29T07:35:18.815-08:00I read the report, Karl. Da Silva's point is e...I read the report, Karl. Da Silva's point is exactly as you state: early humans couldn't have been good climbers since their anatomy was NOT like apes.<br /><br />After 86 years of frantic searching for a missing link or a common ancestor to humans and apes, none has been found.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-48006081909011925262011-01-29T06:14:19.714-08:002011-01-29T06:14:19.714-08:00See, this is why you cannot trust what people tell...See, this is why you cannot trust what people tell you.<br /><br />You quote Jeremy DeSilva (a partial quote) to make it appear that he was saying humans did not evolve from apes, but that is NOT what he was discussing, nor what he was implying. Here is the actual quote, in context.<br /><br />To try to get a leg up on the issue, Jeremy DeSilva, an anthropologist at Worcester State College in Massachusetts, filmed wild chimpanzees as they scaled trees in Uganda's Kibale National Park. He found that when pushing off from a tree branch, chimps flex their ankles (raise their foot) about 45 degrees from the normal resting position. Modern humans, on the other hand, flex their ankles a maximum of 15 to 20 degrees when walking and suffer serious injury if their ankles are bent much further.<br /><br />DeSilva then compared two primary bones of the ankle joint--the tibia in the lower leg and the talus in the foot--in great apes and fossil hominins ranging from 4.12 million to 1.53 million years old. DeSilva found that all of the hominin ankle joints resembled those of modern humans rather than those of apes, suggesting that this joint took on its current configuration early in human evolution. In a report published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DeSilva concludes that if early hominins were engaging in any substantial amount of tree-climbing, they certainly were not doing the kind of ankle-flexing that chimpanzees do today.<br /><br />DeSilva doubts that early hominins could have been good at walking and climbing trees at the same time. That means full bipedalism would have evolved relatively rapidly as tree-climbing ability declined. But he concedes that his study will not end the debate. It is possible that the common ancestor of chimps and humans climbed trees without flexing its ankle as much as chimps do today, and thus early hominins might have been tree climbers, too.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06603794068803432957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-41263198681196505672011-01-29T06:14:06.423-08:002011-01-29T06:14:06.423-08:00Thanks, Anastasia. I appreciate that.
Genesis por...Thanks, Anastasia. I appreciate that.<br /><br />Genesis portrays the creation of the world from chaotic dark waters and the hierarchy in the created order with humans just under the heavenlies, made in the image of the Creator. That alone is to be pondered long and deep.<br /><br />Then we find the Creator making a promise to the people who lived long before Abraham about a woman (not Eve) in their bloodline who would bring forth the Seed who will crush the serpent's head and restore Paradise (Gen. 3:15). That is the beginning of Messianic expectation among Abraham's ancestors, and the theme of the entire Bible.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-58127713062033816962011-01-28T22:25:57.776-08:002011-01-28T22:25:57.776-08:00P.S. Your whole blog is just fascinating! I real...P.S. Your whole blog is just fascinating! I really enjoy it.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-90913651529561618652011-01-28T22:22:38.718-08:002011-01-28T22:22:38.718-08:00"But that's another subject for another d..."But that's another subject for another day."<br /><br />I, for one, wish that day would be tomorrow! I'd love to see this topic expounded some.<br /><br />If you think Genesis is about the origins of Messianic expectation (which I won't dispute), don't you think human origins is a part of that picture? I ask because it seems to me the first three chapters, at least, are about human origin.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.com