"Ape to Man" premieres Sunday night on the History

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-08-07 05:08pm

If the Evil Atheist Conspiracy wants to indoctrinate children with immoral, evolutionist teachings, why the hell haven't we quashed these puny fundamentalists with our vast resources able to infiltrate every textbook company and college in the United States? Someone in the top of our organization needs to be fired.

Oddysseus · Post by **Oddysseus** » 2005-08-07 10:01pm

Okay the show has now indicated it was not a fossil brain, but the the space it once took up, the sand that had filled it. SOund good, or off to anyones knowledge?

I am liking the show, representing the struggle to succeed and move or kowledge forward. And I liked the part near the beginning where they tied the moment in time when the Neanderthal discovery touches the ancient past.

On another matter. Watching this show has sparked a memory of a show that was on either early this year or on last year. It followed early human life, including the struggles of a Neanderthal (I think.) group, and specifically a hunting group lost and dying as winter (and the last Ice Age) sets in. Anyone remember the name of this special?

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2005-08-07 10:11pm

I can think off two off hand. Both from the BBC/Discovery. "Neanderthal" and another one I cannot recall offhand that did a "Walking with Dinosaurs" style story. IIRC, it was in that Series.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2005-08-07 11:00pm

I'm kind of disapointed they didn't do anything about the Hobbit-Hominid, to show another offshot of homo-habalis as a contrast, but I understand why it was cut. Still, it would have been nice. I mean, HOBBITS!

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2005-08-07 11:05pm

OH FUCK I missed it!!! Goddamn Family Guy and American Dad! And they were both reruns too.

Well was it any good, did the History channel make the fundies their bitches?

Boyish-Tigerlilly · Post by **Boyish-Tigerlilly** » 2005-08-07 11:08pm

You probably will be able to see it again Wicked; we can keep our fingers crossed! They usually repeat stuff.

Oddysseus · Post by **Oddysseus** » 2005-08-07 11:09pm

It is a relatively recent discovery. Perhaps they were too far along on this show to just drop it in. Or maybe they want to give it time to be studied and considered (Just in case it ends up being a Piltdown...not that it is

.). Also is it clear yet how they fit into the story? Just another of the offshoots?

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-08-07 11:09pm

Alyeska wrote:Correct, you have a nationally used college text book. Its a fat load of liberal BS. 90%+ of every college facility in the USA is Liberal and pushes a liberal mindset on the youth of america as they grow up teaching them trash, pushing a non-moralistic system where no one is ever at fault but the cooperations and the government. Stupid PC BS. Its people like you that allowed a woman in a McDonalds resturant to sue them for spilling her coffee on herself and WINNING the lawsuit cause McDonalds didnt have a warning: Hot on the cup. Pure liberal PC BS.

Some times I wonder why I registered as a Democrat, because quite frankly, a majority of liberals in my experience are whiny little pussies. Repubs aren't so bad, except for the bible thumping, imposing their moral values on you, pea-brained logic....

Then I say to myself, "Oh yeah, THAT'S why I registered democrat."

Boyish-Tigerlilly · Post by **Boyish-Tigerlilly** » 2005-08-07 11:10pm

Edit: Personally wicked, I didn't see how anyone could construe the show as favouring fundies. I thought it smeared them into the ground. Although, some parts, no doubt, will be carried off as evidence of a scientific conspiracy on behalf of the world's scientists, especially in light of the very old, tired case of piltdown man.

I think the show mentioned Zinjanthrapis, and how the "scientific community" simply ignored and discredited it w/out even looking at it. Perhaps this will give them false ammuntion through which to claim that Science "heads" kills opposition from below. I didn't see it as such though.

Oddysseus · Post by **Oddysseus** » 2005-08-07 11:11pm

I checked TVGuide.com. It is on at midnight (Central Time). And again on THU and SAT.

Oddysseus · Post by **Oddysseus** » 2005-08-07 11:21pm

Piltdown was a bad time in science. But a lot of bad ideas were about and misapplied, social darwinism, eugenics, etc. (But dies that ever change?).

That is why science has to stay free of national or religious agendas. It just fit the preferred ideal of the time and brought England prehistoric prominence...so they waited how long to actually study the evidence?

I have to say that I hope any science that rubber stamped Piltdown has a mark by their names in all of the annals.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-08-07 11:26pm

Majin Gojira wrote:I'm kind of disapointed they didn't do anything about the Hobbit-Hominid, to show another offshot of homo-habalis as a contrast, but I understand why it was cut. Still, it would have been nice. I mean, HOBBITS!

I think it was discovered too recently. They've been working on "Ape to Man" for a couple years, and there just isn't the info on the Hobbit-Habilis.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2005-08-08 02:12am

MRDOD wrote:If the Evil Atheist Conspiracy wants to indoctrinate children with immoral, evolutionist teachings, why the hell haven't we quashed these puny fundamentalists with our vast resources able to infiltrate every textbook company and college in the United States? Someone in the top of our organization needs to be fired.

I'm so sigging this!

Though not necessarily in this forum

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2005-08-08 02:25am

Come to think of it, maybe it should be FUQed too.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-08-08 09:56pm

Actualy, it seems like only that Dion guy is the resident fundie flame-bait of the History forums.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-08-08 10:06pm

Woot, I got FUQed and I got a sig afterwards!

I think that mentioning the fact that evolutionary science HAS screwed up, as in the Piltdown Man, or the "Archaeopterix is real. No wait, it's a fake. WAIT! I change my mind!" thing we had going on in the 90s. Fundamentalists are going to disagree whether or not Evolution is presented as being universally correct or nearly always right in deductions, so why bother appearing to be omniscient?