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Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by NathanKP on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @09:46PM (#4288993)
It's funny but I see a parallel between your line of reasoning about global warming and the reasoning of those who believe in creation, and deny evolution.

There are scientists who advocate creation, not evolution and there is no easy way to "prove evolution" as an absolute fact.

People have their reasons for ignoring proofs of evolution and others have their reasons for ignoring proofs of global warming.

Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by jebblue on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:30AM (#4289363)
What degree of evolution? That things change? That this change is observable? Or that man evolved from apes. If the latter, a) why are there still apes, b) where is the missing link?
Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by nl on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @01:40AM (#4289553)
where is the missing link?

Are people seriously still asking this?

There is a whole list of "human missing links" on Wikipedia[1]. The best preserved are the Australopithecus afarensis set of skeletons[2].

It is thought that A. afarensis was more closely related to the genus Homo (which includes the modern human species Homo sapiens), whether as a direct ancestor or a close relative of an unknown ancestor, than any other known primate from the same time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossils

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis

Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by rblackwater on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @04:30AM (#4289959)
If Christians came from Jews, why are there still Jews?
Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by leot on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:04AM (#4289767)
There is tons (literally) of evidence that evolution is real, from a wide range of independent, disparate sources.

Here's one: the fact that volcanic islands, which have land that has been historically only accessible to birds, have a number of bird species that have filled ecological niches normally filled by rodents.

Here's another: you can see in the fossil record progressive changes. Sure, there are missing links, but try coming up with an explanation that fits the islands fact (above) as well as this one. In addition, have it explain, in a way that permits further predictions, 10 other otherwise independent sources of evidence.

Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by jsmcgd on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:07AM (#4290065)
I cannot believe I'm reading this on HN.
Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by ktizo on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:53AM (#4289419)
a) We are apes, as are chimpanzees and gorillas and bonobos, etc.

b) I think we may have just found you.

Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by julianz on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @01:33AM (#4289535)
<giggle> It's not ad hominem when the target is an ape ;-)
Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by jebblue on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:27PM (#4293156)
Your comment was also a personal insult.
Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by ktizo on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:28PM (#4293950)
Not true, the great apes are all classified as hominidae.
Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by jebblue on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:27PM (#4293155)
Your comment was a personal insult.
Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by ktizo on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @07:49PM (#4293641)
Only in an exceptionally mild way, and no worse than you should reasonably expect from posting absurdly uninformed critiques of basic science to a technology oriented online community. Besides, I meant it more for humour than offense, as I find it hard to resist such a good feed line.