Ardi Resurrected - [Mirror]

Original video by musekiteer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-RQqzcYY0
The original of this video was votebotted by creatard cheats. Thank you for the compliment ;D

Your cheating demonstrates the weakness of the creationist position. That is not news, of course, but it does encourage me to increase my efforts.

Feel free to thwart creatard cheats by mirroring this video, if you approve of its message.

Ardipithecus is a very early hominin genus (subfamily Homininae). Two species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4.4 million years ago during the early Pliocene, and A. kadabba, dated to approximately 5.6 million years ago (late Miocene).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardipith...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

The Hominidae (anglicized Hominids, also known as great apes) form a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: chimpanzees, gorillas, humans and orangutans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape

Humans share ~98 % of DNA sequences with our nearest relatives, the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee

Creationism, in all its many guises, is a religious belief. Genesis comprises an internally inconsistent, allegorical creation-myth. Biblical literalists seem incapable of reconciling their emotional needs for priveleged status with the realities of inconsistent scriptures packed with errors. Because several areas of science falsify biblical metaphysics, creationists rely upon ignorance, misinformation (aka lies), and a variety of fallacies of logic to protect their precious delusions.

This video includes yet another lie from the comedy duo of Bananaman Ray Comfort and Failed Actor Kirk Cameron. Attacks on science substitute for the evidence that is glaringly missing from creationist claims. To assume that ridiculing scientific evidence renders creationism correct is to rely upon a fallacious argument from ignorance. This pathetic tactic highlights the intellectual poverty of the creationist position. Note, intellectual poverty does not prevent charlatans from making lots of money by peddling lies to the deluded.

This video segment is from the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQQ6UC...

The complete documentary on the discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus is here:
1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ek0pn...
2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTY7-I...
3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-MTM4...
4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF30Yf...
5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQQ6UC...
6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkm2m...
7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrgKA...
8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5AFFN...
9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXhez...
10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9skrX...

Comparison images are here:
http://musekiteer.blogspot.com/2009/1...
http://musekiteer.blogspot.com/2009/1...

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• Australopithecus
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[musekiteer]

Thanks for the mirror, Phyllis.

[PhyllisSophical]

Any time, muse, any time. :)

[musekiteer]

Careful! You might regret saying that ;-|

Mind you, with two uploads in as many days, you are on a roll ;)

[PhyllisSophical]

That's a possibility, but I doubt I'll regret it.

Yeah, 2 uploads. I need a rest! ;)

[musekiteer]

// I need a rest! //

While you are resting, think about the brilliant insights that you want to put into a series of videos!

How's that for encouragement?

[PhyllisSophical]

Haha, and you're a comedian as well as a scientist? ;)

[PhyllisSophical]

Thanks. I haven't received grief so far, but it's early days yet. I agree with you about YouTube. It's really not run very well, but until something better comes along, here we are.

[musekiteer]

Ha! I don't claim to be either, though I would have been happy doing research.