A newly published report on another partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis today:

New hominid moves back date of walking upright

which informs us that Lucy’s species was walking upright at least 400,000 years before her.

Anyway, the Fox News version of this story:

3.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Expands Human Family Tree has as 6 of its first 7 comments:

skatawandi
Virginia

And WHY are intelligent people still discussing evolution? EVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE! And here is the cold, hard, non-partial, unbiased math to prove it. Did you know the probability for one protein to have evolved is 10 to the 75th power. Cool huh? Did you know that you need 60,000 proteins in 100 different configurations just for ONE simple cell? That means that the probability for ONE SIMPLE CELL to evolve is 10 to the ready? 4,478,296 power. That is a BIT of a problem. Did you know the number when something stops being statistically possible and becomes statistically IMPOSSIBLE? The number is 10 to the 150th power. So, for a simple cell to have happened by chance is statistically impossible by a POWER of 4,478,146. Face the fact: evolution is IMPOSSIBLE.

Monday, June 21, 2010 at 2:22 PM

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Emily Shelley

I’m sure the age is closer to 3.6 thousand years; not millions. Radiometric dating is so flawed because of the premises that it is based on, i.e. gradualism, and assuming the absence of catostrophic interruptions in the normal rate of elemental degeneration.

Monday, June 21, 2010 at 2:06 PM

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Jason Casey

What a load of crock. Every week they come out with ‘the oldest known fossils of man’ and the writer attributes this as the grandfather of Lucy. Far as I can remember, Lucy was already dis-proven to be nothing more than pig bones. Next thing they are going to tell us is that the moon really has green cheese on it.

Monday, June 21, 2010 at 2:06 PM

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cubefarmer
Utah

Wonder if it’s yet another hoax…

Monday, June 21, 2010 at 1:59 PM

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paradiselost79

more lies spread by the media. to believe that we came from chimps is pure idiocy, as well as spitting in God’s face

Monday, June 21, 2010 at 1:58 PM

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rhedhed
Mississippi

Ha ha ha ha, ho ho. All those kids taught that evolution was one thing, have to be retaught… ha ha ha.

Monday, June 21, 2010 at 1:58 PM

What can I say…

The strong correlation between creationism and wingnuttia is not without cause.