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Richard Dawkins on 'The Magic of Reality'

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13 September 2011

Welcome to the Creationism vs Science page! To your right, you will see an image of a 3.5 million year old skull excavated from Kenya in 1999. This one is named Kenyanthropus platyops, and it is being proposed as another possible distant ancestor of mankind. Its features are somewhat different than those of "Lucy", also known as Australopithecus afarensis (discovered in Ethiopia in 1974), with smaller teeth and a flatter face. It is also possible that it is related to the australopithecus family, and that its initial classification as a separate genus may have been premature.

Researchers are hopeful that more such remains may be found as excavations continue. This specimen is being added to the growing list of species which existed 2 to 3.5 million years ago and are clearly neither modern primate or modern human, one of which may have been our ancestors.

However, creationists reject all of this. According to creationism, humans sprouted fully-formed in our current state, as did all animal "kinds" (a term which creationists use instead of "species", but which is curiously undefined). In an attempt to co-opt the language of science (if not its methods), they even call it "Creation Theory", even though a scientific theory should allow one to derive specific predictions from a defined mechanism: something which is impossible for "Creation Theory".

Of course, none of this is a problem for creationism because it is not (despite its claims to the contrary) a scientific movement. It is a religiously motivated political movement, which is why they publish all of their "research" directly to the general public rather than letting other scientists subject it to peer review. Unfortunately, there are many kinds of arguments which are far more convincing to someone who struggled with grade 11 chemistry than someone who actually studied science at the university level, which is why creationism enjoys more than 50% support from the American public while languishing at less than 1% among scientists.

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[bozidarac]

"I think myths are great, I just think science is better" BAHAHAHA

[matthewwilloughby83]

@surangasa Or education.

[ianjrivers]

If only more people listened to this guy, he's more important than St. Paul , perhaps in the future he'll be regarded as an apostle of the post-religion new enlightenment ....

[hxnncht]

nice tie

[surangasa]

I feel sorry for the people who disliked this video. Stupidity is only curable by death.

[Fashion4life]

I love this guy :)! Some people are really ignorant to reality. They wish on things that have no evidence and dismiss the truth that we do have... And most scientist are atheists or agnostic...

[eulercircles]

@webhutspain Ah, I get it... no rational response for anything I put out there... just name calling. Good job.

[Sapphire848]

@spareaxe Lmao! I do XD But in a very different sense that you've probably not come across.

You're very quick to dismiss my beliefs without knowing about them, I wonder why that is ;-)

[RedStarBelgradefan]

@dp19032k9 i like you people that have all the information and even know what happens after death :)