Proper Understanding of Evolution

I give credit to Dr. Watson for his integrity. He allows his faith in evolution to guide his thoughts. Now these other people are at least dishonest with themselves for if evolution is true than there can be not be anything that is driving a moral compass.

So when he is holding true to evolution when he says a women should have a right to Abbott a baby who will be homosexual, as that would naturally decrease the Gene pool. Like wise he is honest to evolution when he says that Africans are a lower inteligence, because they are earlier on the evolutionary scale, than northern Europeans.

Of course he is also wrong because evolution is wrong, but he at least has more integrity than those who criticise him for his stance on evolution.

The real question is why do they care, as there is no meaning to life if there is nothing beyond this life.

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Museum drops race row scientist

Dr Watson was due to arrive in Britain to promote his new bookThe Science Museum has cancelled a talk by American DNA pioneer Dr James Watson after he claimed black people were less intelligent than white people.

Dr Watson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, was due to speak at the venue on Friday. But the museum has cancelled the event, saying his views went "beyond the point of acceptable debate".

Skills Minister David Lammy said Dr Watson's views "were deeply offensive". He added: "They will succeed only in providing oxygen for the BNP. "It is a shame that a man with a record of scientific distinction should see his work overshadowed by his own irrational prejudices." We feel Dr Watson has gone beyond the point of acceptable debate.

Dr Watson, currently director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York, has arrived in Britain to promote his latest book.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, the 79-year-old said he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really".

He went on to say he hoped everyone was equal but that "people
who have to deal with black employees find this is not true".
A spokesman for the Science Museum said: "We know that eminent scientists can sometimes say things that cause controversy and the Science Museum does not shy away from debating controversial topics.
"However, we feel Dr Watson has gone beyond the point of acceptable debate and we are, as a result, cancelling his talk."
'Robust questioning'

The scientist has courted controversy in the past,
saying that a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual.
Dr Watson is also due to speak in Bristol at the annual Festival of Ideas which will be hosted by Eric Thomas, Bristol University's vice-chancellor.
A spokesman for the university said it respected "freedom of speech and the right of people to express their views".
But it expected "some robust questioning of Dr Watson on his ideas".

US scientists reject interference

Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process.
The Union said is was hopeful that the new Congress taking office in January would show a greater commitment to protecting the integrity of the scientific process.

Good science is always good, the problem is that the scientist talk and act as thought they have no agenda, but that is deceptive to the maximum. The scientist have protested in the past about fetal stem cell research funding. Telling the government that they are the arbiters of morality. The problem with these statements that these scientist make is that they are biased and someone should have oversight over the choices that they make and some of them have an agenda to push.
The other unique aspect is that science at its most basic level over the last one hundred years has not kept any integrity about the facts for modern science pushes evolution down our throats as scientific fact while saying that believing in a creator is religion and can not be science. Ignoring that evolution can not be substantiated from its very basis. Evolution cries contradictory to the second law of thermodynamics. The second law says that energy decays to an unstable form not to a more organized form, or that complexity does not come without an outside force creating it.
They have a bigger lie in that they argue from statistics while misusing statistics. Frequently they will say if the chances are 1 in 100 than the one hundredth time it is bound to happen. Statistics says if its 1 in 100 than the 100th time its still 1 in 100. The odds that they use is 1 in 100,000,000 so its never going to happen and that optimistic thinking.

Lucy's baby' found in Ethiopia BBC

The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region.

The female Australopithecus afarensis bones are from the same species as an adult skeleton found in 1974 which was nicknamed "Lucy".

Scientists are thrilled with the find, reported in the journal Nature.

They believe the near-complete remains offer a remarkable opportunity to study growth and development in an important extinct human ancestor.

The juvenile Australopithecus afarensis remains vanishingly rare.

The skeleton was first identified in 2000, locked inside a block of sandstone. It has taken five years of painstaking work to free the bones.

"The Dikika fossil is now revealing many secrets about Australopithecus afarensis and other early hominins, because the fossil evidence was not there," said dig leader Zeresenay Alemseged, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Delicate bones

The find consists of the whole skull, the entire torso and important parts of the upper and lower limbs. CT scans reveal unerupted teeth still in the jaw, a detail that makes scientists think the individual may have been about three years old when she died.

Remarkably, some quite delicate bones not normally preserved in the fossilisation process are also present, such as the hyoid, or tongue, bone. The hyoid bone reflects how the voice box is built and perhaps what sounds a species can produce.

Judging by how well it was preserved, the skeleton may have come from a body that was quickly buried by sediment in a flood, the researchers said.

"In my opinion, afarensis is a very good transitional species for what was before four million years ago and what came after three million years," Dr Alemseged told BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh.

"[The species had] a mixture of ape-like and human-like features. This puts afarensis in a special position to play a pivotal role in the story of what we are and where we come from."

Climbing ability

This early ancestor possessed primitive teeth and a small brain but it stood upright and walked on two feet.

There is considerable argument about whether the Dikika girl could also climb trees like an ape.

This climbing ability would require anatomical equipment like long arms, and the "Lucy" species had arms that dangled down to just above the knees. It also had gorilla-like shoulder blades which suggest it could have been skilled at swinging through trees.

But the question is whether such features indicate climbing ability or are just "evolutionary baggage".

The Dikika girl had an estimated brain size of 330 cubic centimetres when she died, which is not very different from that of a similarly aged chimpanzee. However, when compared to the adult afarensis values, it forms 63 - 88% of the adult brain size.

This is lower than that of an adult chimp, where by the age of three, over 90% of the brain is formed. This relatively slow brain growth in the Dikika girl appears to be slightly closer to that of humans.

Slow, gradual development in an extended childhood is regarded as a very human trait - probably to enable our higher functions to develop.

Professor Fred Spoor of University College London said the find would give scientists a "detailed insight into how our distant relatives grew up and behaved... at a time of human evolution when they looked a good deal more like bipedal chimpanzees than like us."

Dr Jonathan Wynn of the University of St Andrews, UK, and colleagues at the University of South Florida dated the sediments surrounding the remains and came up with an age of 3.3 million years.

The "Lucy" skeleton, discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974 belongs to the same species as the Dikika girl. For more than 20 years it was the oldest human ancestor known to science.

I have a few questions about this whole thing!

• How is it they now the age, though the surrounding soil is a good start it is no guarantee!
• How do they know that she is a relative, much less that we are in the same family line.
• This here reveals a difficulty in the science. There is no genetic material so any statement or assumption is a swag/guess. They will never admit this in public but...
• How do they know she is related to "Lucy"? Lucy if I remember right has far less than this.
• The most important question not asked is as there is no scientific foolproof method to prove that this is a relative, than how do we not know it is just another type of monkey/ape that is not related to mankind other than common creator?
• lastly why do the scientist make such blanket statements to the public with little scientific proof? I believe that there are two reasons
  
• Funding steam - There is a fight for funds to live and research on and so one has to be extravagant in claims to get the money(Give me the money and we will put your name in lights)
• There is an above ground agenda to prove evolution, even with bad science. Bad science is making statements that are unproven or not-testable.
  
• These "scientist" have created a whole culture out of nothing, arguing that it indicates how they lived. That is unscientific with no artifacts what so ever.
  
• It is conjecture to prove a point
• It is the foundation of Secular Humanism a blind faith or religion.