When the smallest living thing on the planet is complex in it's design (INTELLIGENT DESIGN)....oh it just happened this way MAGICALLY....
How do you think it happened?
Why does it have to be intelligent design? Your parents created you. They're just animals. Who created them? Something physical that can be explained by nature.
Sounds like god of the gaps. Everything you don't know must be god. Or as you call him intelligent designer
If life is ever found on another planet the foundations of Christianity will be rocked. But some Christian experts have anticipated that by declaring UFOs vehicles of the Devil. Others point to Ezekiel's "Wheel in the middle of a wheel
Among the numerous Miocene primate species were the ancestors of all modern apes and humans. By 14 million years ago, the group of apes that included our ancestors was apparently in the process of adapting to life on the edges of the expanding savannas in Southern Europe. They were very likely members of the genus Dryopithecus, which were generally similar in appearance to modern African apes. These apes evolved mostly during a relatively short global heat wave that began around 15 million years ago. This caused enough polar ice to melt so that sea levels once again rose 80-130 feet.
Toward the end of the Miocene, less hospitable cooler conditions in the northern hemisphere once again caused many primate species to become extinct while some survived by migrating south into Africa and South Asia where it remained relatively warm. About 8-9 million years ago, the descendants of the dryopithecines
. The australopithecines (or australopiths) were intermediate between apes and people. Both australopithecines and humans are biologically similar enough to be classified as members of the same biological tribe--the Hominini . All people, past and present, along with the australopithecines are hominins . We share in common not only the fact that we evolved from the same ape ancestors in Africa but that both genera are habitually bipedal , or two-footed, upright walkers. By comparison, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas are primarily quadrupedal , or four-footed. 
, Orrorin , and Ardipithecus . Sahelanthropus was the earliest, dating 7-6 million years ago. Orrorin lived about 6 million years ago, while Ardipithecus remains have been dated to 5.8-4.4 million years ago. At present, the vote is still out as to whether any of these three primates were in fact true hominins and if they were our ancestors. The classification of Sahelanthropus has been the most in question.. The australopithecines took advantage of these new conditions. In the more open environments, bipedalism would very likely have been an advantage.
in Europe and some presumably earlier human-like forms from Java, in Southeast Asia. Few researchers were willing to estimate the time period of the earliest hominins at much more than 100,000 years, and there was no inkling of anything older from Africa. In addition, there was a bias among the predominantly European paleoanthropologists against accepting early Africans as the ancestors of all humanity.
. It took him 73 days to chisel the skull free from its surrounding stone matrix and 4 years of spare time to free the jaw and the fossilized brain. However, long before then, Dart recognized the importance of this find. In 1925 he named it Australopithecus africanus (literally "southern ape from Africa"). Because of its small size, he called it the "Taung baby." In fact, its teeth indicate that it was a 3-4 year old child. Despite its relatively small brain, he concluded that this species was intermediate between apes and humans. He based this mainly on the shape and position of the base of the brain cast. It indicated that the foramen magnum , or hole in the skull through which the spinal cord passes, pointed downward and was nearly at the central balance point of the skull. This meant that the Taung child must have been bipedal. In addition, the canine teeth were relatively short. In both of these traits, the Taung child was much more like a human than an ape. Most paleoanthropologists in the 1920's rejected Dart's claims that Australopithecus africanus was intermediate between apes and humans in favor of the view that it was just an ape. Dart's claims were not widely accepted until the late 1940's.
cave. In 1938, he discovered more fossil remains of africanus and other early hominins in Kromdraai cave. Some of these fossils were larger boned and more muscular with powerful jaws. Broom named them Paranthropus robustus (Paranthropus means "parallel to man"). Significantly, these robust hominins also differed in having a sagittal crest , or ridge of bone extending from front to back, along the midline of the top of the skull. A sagittal crest serves as an anchor attachment for exceptionally large, strong jaw muscles. This skeletal feature is also present in large apes but not in africanus or humans.
cave in South Africa. Following that excavation, he dedicated the rest of his life to writing everything known about all of the early hominins. He completed this compendium work in 1951. He was 85 years old and ill. As he finally finished his writing, he reportedly said "now it is done and so am I." He died a few minutes later.
. It is an approximately 30 mile (48 km.) long, eroded canyon complex cutting into the Serengeti Plain in Northern Tanzania. It is only about 295 feet (90 m.) deep, but its neatly stratified layers of dirt and rock interspersed with easily datable volcanic ash and lava layers cover the last 2.1 million years of geological and evolutionary history. The remains of many australopithecines, paranthropoids, and early humans have been found at Olduvai. When these ancient hominins lived there, it was a lake margin grassland area that had abundant plant food and meat sources that could be exploited by scavenging. 
. Louis began searching there in 1931, and his second wife Mary joined him in 1935. However, it was not until 1959 that they found their first early hominin fossil. Louis gave it a new genus and species designation, Zinjanthropus boisei (literally "East African man"). Subsequently, it was recognized to be only a super robust paranthropoid. It is now generally referred to as Paranthropus boisei . Using the then new potassium-argon dating method, the fossil was determined to be 1.75 ± .25 million years old. This was a startlingly early date when it was made public in 1959. Louis Leakey and Zinjanthropus instantly became international media stars, and both of their pictures were on the front page of newspapers around the world. Louis was also the focus of several television documentary programs. In the years after his death in 1972, Mary became well known as a paleoanthropologist in her own right. site in the Afar Desert region of Northern Ethiopia. It was a 40% complete skeleton of an adult female whom they named Lucy. She had been only 3 feet 3 inches (1 m.) tall with a slender body weighing only about 60 pounds (27 kg.). She lived 3.2-3.18 million years ago. Johanson concluded that Lucy was from a different species than had been previously discovered. He classified her as an Australopithecus afarensis (named for the Afar region). Many other specimens of this species and later ones were found in Ethiopia since 1974, but none is as complete as Lucy. 
Finding Lucy--how she was discovered Becoming a Fossil--how Lucy was preserved
site. It was investigated in the late 1930's by Louis and Mary Leakey, but no fossil hominins were found at that time. Mary Leakey returned to Laetoli with Tim White, an American paleoanthropologist in 1978. They found bones of what were likely Australopithecus afarensis dating 3.7-3.5 million years ago (several hundred thousand years older than Lucy). They also found 59 footprints of bipedal hominins (presumably afarensis) in a now hardened volcanic ash layer. These individuals walked in two close parallel tracks across volcanic dust at least 3.5 million years ago. The footprints look almost like those of modern humans. They are narrow with a low arch, and they clearly show that the big toe was in line with the others. These are all traits of humans but not of apes. Based on the characteristics of the footprints, Mary Leakey concluded that their makers were adults who were 4 feet 9 inches and 4 feet 1 inch tall and that they walked parallel to each other in a strolling fashion with relatively short strides. In addition, there are a child's footprints within those of the larger adult. Laetoli Footprints--how they were formed and preserved
in the Great Rift Valley that has exposed geological deposits dating to at least 4.3 million years ago. Richard Leakey, the son of Mary and Louis Leakey, began looking for hominin fossils there in the late 1960's. During the 1970's, his team of field researchers from the National Museum of Kenya made a number of important finds, including fossils of early humans who will be described in the next tutorial of this series. ("anam" is "lake" in the Turkana language). The dentition of this hominin seems to be transitional between apes and later australopithecines. This fits with the 4.2-3.9 million year dates for the volcanic ash associated with the anamensis fossils. The shapes of the arm and leg bones of this species indicate that it was bipedal. Anamensis is currently the earliest known australopithecine species. Bones from at least 8 more anamensis skeletons have been found in Ethiopia. ("garhi" is "surprise" in one of the languages of the Afar Desert region). Whether or not garhi was a late afarensis, a variant of africanus, or a distinct species is not clear. Associated with the remains of garhi were animal bones with what appear to be cut marks made by simple stone tools. If they were using such tools, this is remarkable because only early humans have heretofore been associated with stone tool making.
But just where are the bones of that common ancestor? Without them, the divergent ancestor of man and ape remains a mythical creature.Early Primate Evolution: The First Primates
Among the numerous Miocene primate species were the ancestors of all modern apes and humans. By 14 million years ago, the group of apes that included our ancestors was apparently in the process of adapting to life on the edges of the expanding savannas in Southern Europe. They were very likely members of the genus Dryopithecus
Toward the end of the Miocene, less hospitable cooler conditions in the northern hemisphere once again caused many primate species to become extinct while some survived by migrating south into Africa and South Asia where it remained relatively warm. About 8-9 million years ago, the descendants of the dryopithecines
Actually I know lots of Christians who don't think we are alone. So I think Christianity will just easily overcome that by moving the goalpost.
Here is the evidence! Pretty ******* solid...
Early Hominin Evolution: Discovery of Early Hominids
Discovery of Early Hominins
The immediate ancestors of humans were members of the genus Australopithecus
Over the last decade, there have been a number of important fossil discoveries in Africa of what may be very early transitional ape/hominins, or proto-hominins. These creatures lived just after the divergence from our common hominid ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, during the late Miocene and early Pliocene Epochs. The fossils have been tentatively classified as members of three distinct genera--Sahelanthropus
The earliest australopithecines very likely did not evolve until 5 million years ago or shortly thereafter (during the beginning of the Pliocene Epoch) in East Africa. The primate fossil record for this crucial transitional period leading to australopithecines is still scanty and somewhat confusing. However, by about 4.2 million years ago, unquestionable australopithecines were present. By 3 million years ago, they were common in both East and South Africa. Some have been found dating to this period in North Central Africa also. As the australopithecines evolved, they exploited more types of environments. Their early proto-hominin ancestors had been predominantly tropical forest animals. However, African forests were progressively giving way to sparse woodlands and dry grasslands, or savannas
By 2.5 million years ago, there were at least 2 evolutionary lines of hominins descended from the early australopithecines. One line apparently was adapted primarily to the food resources in lake margin grassland environments and had an omnivorous diet that increasingly included meat. Among them were our early human ancestors who started to make stone tools by this time. The other line seems to have lived more in mixed grassland and woodland environments, like the earlier australopithecines, and was primarily vegetarian. This second, more conservative line of early hominins died out by 1 million years ago or shortly before then. It is likely that all of the early hominins, including humans, supplemented their diets with protein and fat rich termites and ants just as some chimpanzees do today.
Major early
hominin sites
History of Discovery
In his 1871 book entitled The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Charles Darwin speculated that fossils of the earliest humans and their immediate progenitors ultimately would be found somewhere in Africa. He based this on the fact that the natural range of our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, is limited to Africa. He concluded that we ultimately must have shared a now extinct common ancestor with those apes in Africa. This view was mostly rejected by the scientific world of the time. Before the 1920's, knowledge of our fossil ancestors only went back to the Neandertals
Raymond Dart
(1893-1989)
Agreed! What Christian knows the true nature of Heaven? Jesus was, after all, an extraterrestrial. But it seems the only way they can get here is through a woman's vagina. Leaving is far easier... all you have to do is die!
I just heard on jeopardy tonight a new bacteria was found at the bottom of the Dead Sea. I wonder if we released it and gave it several million years what would happen. Or a couple billion years.We are straying rather far from the OP.
Simply put, we have DNA studies that now show our relationships with the rest of life on earth. We also have a very extensive fossil record, clear back to almost 4 billion years ago.
3.77-billion-year-old fossils stake new claim to oldest evidence of life
By Carolyn GramlingMar. 1, 2017 , 1:00 PM
Life on Earth may have originated in the sunless depths of the ocean rather than shallow seas. In a new study, scientists studying 3.77-billion-year-old rocks have found tubelike fossils similar to structures found at hydrothermal vents, which host thriving biological communities. That would make them more than 300 million years older than the most ancient signs of life on Earth—fossilized microbial mats called stromatolites that grew in shallow seas. Other scientists are skeptical about the new claims.
“The authors offer a convincing set of observations that could signify life,” says Kurt Konhauser, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, who was not involved in the study. But “at present, I do not see a way in which we will definitively prove ancient life at 3.8 billion years ago.”
When life first emerged on Earth has been an enduring and frustrating mystery. The planet is 4.55 billion years old, but thanks to plate tectonics and the constant recycling of Earth’s crust, only a handful of rock outcrops remain that are older than 3 billion years, including 3.7-billion-year-old formations in Greenland’s Isua Greenstone Belt. And these rocks tend to be twisted up and chemically altered by heat and pressure, making it devilishly difficult to detect unequivocal signs of life.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017...-fossils-stake-new-claim-oldest-evidence-life
I'm still waiting for your alternate theory without using god
I just heard on jeopardy tonight a new bacteria was found at the bottom of the Dead Sea. I wonder if we released it and gave it several million years what would happen. Or a couple billion years.We are straying rather far from the OP.
Simply put, we have DNA studies that now show our relationships with the rest of life on earth. We also have a very extensive fossil record, clear back to almost 4 billion years ago.
3.77-billion-year-old fossils stake new claim to oldest evidence of life
By Carolyn GramlingMar. 1, 2017 , 1:00 PM
Life on Earth may have originated in the sunless depths of the ocean rather than shallow seas. In a new study, scientists studying 3.77-billion-year-old rocks have found tubelike fossils similar to structures found at hydrothermal vents, which host thriving biological communities. That would make them more than 300 million years older than the most ancient signs of life on Earth—fossilized microbial mats called stromatolites that grew in shallow seas. Other scientists are skeptical about the new claims.
“The authors offer a convincing set of observations that could signify life,” says Kurt Konhauser, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, who was not involved in the study. But “at present, I do not see a way in which we will definitively prove ancient life at 3.8 billion years ago.”
When life first emerged on Earth has been an enduring and frustrating mystery. The planet is 4.55 billion years old, but thanks to plate tectonics and the constant recycling of Earth’s crust, only a handful of rock outcrops remain that are older than 3 billion years, including 3.7-billion-year-old formations in Greenland’s Isua Greenstone Belt. And these rocks tend to be twisted up and chemically altered by heat and pressure, making it devilishly difficult to detect unequivocal signs of life.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017...-fossils-stake-new-claim-oldest-evidence-life
Evolution deniers don't seem to realize how long the process takes.
I ask religious people and they can never answer logically
1. Why trilobites and then dinosaurs before humans? Weren't we his original intent? Did he just add us to the fish bowl later?
2. How did all the full grown land animals get here if not for evolution
Before evolution everyone thought god poofed us here. It's ridiculous. But really that's what evolution deniers are suggesting. Even I admit science is mind blowing and unfortunately science reduces god to a hypothesis. Not even a theory. Not a scientific one.
Humans need to throw out all the superstitious crap if we're going to evolve. We should already be on Mars.
One has to be able to think logically, so I am guessing that is not possible for you.
