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    Bigger Brains in Human Ancestors

    By Jaya Jiwatram Posted on 11.17.2008 4 Comments

    Researchers reveal that a 1.2 million-year-old female pelvis they found in Ethiopia in 2001 suggests our predecessors were larger-brained than previously thought The story of evolution got bigger last week when researchers revealed in the journal Science that they had discovered a wide-hipped pelvis, suggesting our ancestors were larger-brained than formerly thought. The first of its kind, the 1.2 million-year-old, near-complete female pelvis is from the now-extinct Homo erectus species, believed to be our first human-like relative to leave Africa.

    1.7.2009 at 03:08pm - Comment by DVineDZine

    I enjoy reading the articles of scientists but: I personally find the idea of evolution to be comical and ludicrous. The fact that human beings and all life forms, for that matter, procreate simply by an exchange of fluids is the most remarkable miracle of all. The fact that humans create baby humans, dogs create puppies and the list goes on and on and on and on! The life cycle is so perfect. It is by divine design and nothing else even remotely explains our existance on this planet along with so many hundreds of millions of other life forms that reproduce so perfectly. That's just the human beings not including the reptiles, fowls, insects, micro organisms which number in the hundreds of millions. In other words, you can't count the life forms that have been, are or will be on this planet. It takes greater faith to believe in evolution then it will ever take to believe in a designer. The very idea that evolution is responsible for the beauty of life. Evolution suggests time, chance and chaos are responsible for our existance but if that were true, nothing that is here today would be the same tomorrow because it would have evolved and the only thing I see is life begats life. We live a while and we die with most of us choosing to leave an extension of our existance behind in our children. It amazes me how people can believe in evolution and not God. I know people that can't read or write, can't talk, can't walk, can't see yet they can have a sexual experience with a member of the opposite sex and ultimately create a body with a brain (Most complex organ in the body), lungs that breathe, two eyes that can see, ears that can hear, mouths that speak, two arms two legs but yet they are considered less intelligent than our surgeons and doctors that attempt to repair these organs and limbs. Kudos to our doctors and surgeons but they are still just men & women! We are all different yet we're all typically the same and this doesn't happen by chance. It's not where we came from that matters, it's where we're going that should be our focus. If a person enters a cemetary or burial ground and digs into a grave it is a crime and the person can go to jail or prison but because modern grave yards contain known human remains that do not fill evolutionary gaps for evolutionists, these sites are protected by law. If an evolutionist, in an attempt to disprove divine design, wants to dig an ancient grave it's called science. Grave robbers are grave robbers regardless of when the person was born or when they died. True science will put facts together. Assuming something to be true is ignorance. To teach unproven assumptions as truth is a lie and it's ignorance gone to seed.. Considering the complexity and beauty of life and procreation, If you're going to assume something, assume that we're created in the image and likeness of God and rightfully the children of God. Not the children of apes or monkey's. The wonder and glory of nature alone testifies of God and a designer. Problem is, if you reject God, it's an unwillingness to be accountable to a higher power and man in his fallen pride wants to be accountable to noone other than themselves. Also, true science should always be open to the views and beliefs of others because simply put, If you don't know where we came from then you're not qualified to teach where we didn't come from. The spirit in a human yearns and calls out to know God! Every human has an unction in the spirit that knows there is a designer (God). It's the soul (mind) of man that argues God's existance. From the heart, Search your heart! We're not mindless monkey's and your own heart will speak to you.



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