African Fossils Shake Theory of Evolution

NO! ........ NO, NO, NO! That title hit newspapers this morning and is so misleading I could scream!

I am not an expert on evolution, or for that matter even that well versed in it.

BUT! From the little I do know there is nothing about the fact of evolution that has been put in jeopardy.

Oh, I know the Creationists and Intelligent Designers will jump all over this and proclaim; "See, I told you this stupid THEORY was wrong!" But that's not the case at all my friends. No!

From what I gathered from the news reports this morning it seems there are some points about the process of evolution that need revision.

The way it was described in the paper was that instead of a tall oak tree representing human evolution, (with us being the branch that goes highest) the process can be described as being "bushier." That is, more branches coming of the main trunk that we originally thought.

This all happened because in our family tree Homo Habilis was assumed to have developed into Homo Erectus, which then became Homo Sapien and now Homo Homo Sapiens! (Us!)

Instead, the new idea is that Habilis and Erectus did not follow one and another but actually lived side by side for a while about 1.5 million years ago.

Researchers say this makes it unlikely that Homo Erectus evolved from Homo Habilis but that both came from some other more distant ancestor that we haven't discovered yet.

Or,...... another way to put it is that your grandmother and great grandmother were sisters rather than mother and daughter. But as I said, just wait for the clammer from the Creationists.

It's coming!

(I told you I was no expert on this, I can keep aunts, uncles and cousins straight and that's about it. Ask me who my second cousin is on my mothers side and you get a blank stare!)

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And now for something completely different. If some religions sip wine at the altar, others should be allowed to smoke pot.

That's the opinion of Rev. Edwin Pearson and Rev. Michel Ethier, two ordained ministers behind a class-action lawsuit challenging Canada's marijuana laws.

The ministers, with lay preacher James Hoad, allege the federal government is violating religious freedom of members of the Church of the Universe, which claims marijuana as a "sacrament." The trio accuses the government of harassing church members and "denuding" them of their dignity, as well as their inner tranquility (high).

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This is an actual picture of the first wave of the Karundi invasion force that attacked Northern Canada last week.



Don't remember that?

See what happens when you miss a day of "Perspective!"

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And finally;

I have no idea how this came up, but this site must be gaining in popularity because someone did a Google search where the only two search words entered were "Beethoven" and "farting!"

I have no idea what these two have in common, but with these two reference points to go on, Google pointed them to last week's edition of "Sunday Morning Funnies" where there was absolutely no mention of Beethoven farting, just the Royal Family!

That's pretty funny!

Your humble scribe;
Allan W Janssen

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Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com