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• http://www.revealingthelink.com/more-about-ida/resources/press_release.pdf
Scientific Publication:
• http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005723

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Scientists Discover ‘Missing Link’ In Human Evolution (Sky News, May 19, 2009)

Scientists say they have found a primate fossil that shows our connection with other mammals and our earliest human ancestor. These pictures are from the programme “The Link” by Atlantic Productions.

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47 MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOSSIL TOUTED AS ‘MISSING LINK’

Scientists believe they have found the “missing link,” an ancient primate fossil some 47 million years old which is thought to the common ancestor to all later monkeys, apes and humans.

The nearly perfect skeleton, classified as Darwinius masillae, was found in Germany. It’s a she, about the size of a small cat, with four legs and a long tail and lived for about 9 or 10 months.

The creature, which scientists nicknamed Ida after lead researcher Jorn Hurum’s 6-year-old daughter, is not a direct ancestor of monkeys and humans, but it provides a good indication of what such an ancestor may have looked like, researchers said.

• http://www.nypost.com/seven/05192009/…

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Is fossil Ida a missing link in evolution?

This 47m-year-old skeleton is one of the most significant primate fossil discoveries, hailed by some as ‘the missing link’ and by others, such as David Attenborough, as proof of evolution.

Fossil Ida – The missing link in Evolution:
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/200…
Sir David Attenborough David Attenborough on Ida:
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/vid…
The world of Ida:
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/200…

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Primate Fossil Could Be Key Link in Evolution

Scientists say a 47-million-year-old fossil found in Germany may be a key link to explain the evolution of early primates, and, ultimately, modern human beings. The fossil, of a young female that probably resembled a modern-day lemur, is described as “the most complete primate fossil ever found.” It is small — with a body about the size of a raccoon — but it has characteristics found in later primates and in humans.

It has, among other things, opposable thumbs, similar to humans’ and unlike those found on other modern mammals. It has fingernails instead of claws. And by examining the structure of its hind legs (one of which is partly missing), scientists say they can see evidence of evolutionary changes that would eventually lead to primates standing upright.

• http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/stor…

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Who is Ida?

Ida is a 47 million year old, perfectly preserved primate recovered from the Messel Pit in Germany.

Ida is the most complete early primate fossil ever found, and scientists believe that she could be one of our earliest ancestors. She is a remarkable link between the first primates and modern humans and despite having lived 47 million years ago, her features show striking similarities to our own.

For 150 years, scientists have debated the course of our evolutionary journey from tree-dwelling primate to modern Homo sapiens.

When Darwin put forward the theory of evolution in his book “On The Origin of Species”, he suggested that there were transitional species linking humans with the rest of animal life.

Since Darwin’s time, palaeontologists have made important discoveries of fossils that have begun to uncover our prehistoric ancestry. Best known of these fossils is Lucy, a hominid who lived around 3.2 million years ago at the time when our ancestors started walking upright. But before Lucy there are massive gaps in the fossil record, and scientists have only had fragments of fossils to study.

Scientists have long hoped that the Earth might eventually yield an even more ancient fossil that links apes, man and all other primates to the earliest mammals on the planet. Now Ida is rewriting the history of our earliest origins. She is the most complete primate fossil ever found and has proto-anthropoid features, placing her at the base of the anthropoid branch which leads to monkeys, apes, and humans. Here at last, 150 years after the publication of “On The Origin of Species”, we have the link that connects us directly with the rest of the animal kingdom.

• http://www.revealingthelink.com/who-is-ida/
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Islam and Christianity – by Sheikh Ahmed Deedat and Dr. Gary Miller

An open air symposium takes place at Westridge Park Stadium Islam and Christianity – by Sheikh Ahmed Deedat and Dr. Gary Miller

An open air symposium takes place at Westridge Park Stadium, Durban between Mr. Ahmed Deedat and an ex-Christian Gary Miller. The discussion centres around the viewpoints of Islam and Christianity on various topics such as the divinity of Christ (pbuh), Is the Bible God’s word? etc. A lively question and answer session ensues.

Sheikh Ahmed Hussein Deedat (July 1, 1918 – August 8, 2005): He was a Muslim scholar of Comparative religion, an author, lecturer, and an orator. He was best known for witty inter-religious public debates.

What differentiated Deedat’s approach from his contemporaries, apart from eloquence in English language, was that he would not only use references from the Qur’an and the Hadith, but also use his intensive knowledge of the Bible.

Dr. Gary Miller: Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) shows how we can establish true faith by setting standards of truth. He illustrates a simple but effective method of finding out the right direction in our search for truth.

G.R. Miller is a mathematician and a theologian. He was active in Christian missionary work at a particular point of his life but he soon began to discover many inconsistencies in the Bible. In 1978, he happened to read the Qur’an expecting that it, too, would contain a mixture of truth and falsehood.

He discovered to his amazement that the message of the Qur’an was precisely the same as the essence of truth that he had distilled from the Bible. He became a Muslim and since then has been active in giving public presentations on Islam including radio and television appearances. He is also the author of several articles and publications about Islam.

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Charles Robert Darwin (1809 — 1882) was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection.[1] The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930’s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.
Darwin developed his interest in natural history while studying first medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin investigated the transmutation of species and conceived his theory of natural selection in 1838. Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority. He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay which described a similar theory, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories.
His 1859 book On the Origin of Species established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil.
In recognition of Darwin’s pre-eminence, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton
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I hope you enjoyed this, the pictures are of HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin

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He has written widely on 20th-century authors for a variety of venues and journals. His publications include the book Das Doppelgängermotiv in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts and numerous articles, the most recent of which are: Books:
Ulfers, Friedrich, Gunter Lenz, and Antje Dallmann, eds. Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, Winter 2006.

Articles:
Ulfers, Friedrich. “Times Square as an Exemplar of Postmodern Urban Space.” Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Ed. Friedrich Ulfers, Gunter Lenz, and Antje Dallmann. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, Winter 2006. 251-60.
“Nietzsche’s Amor Fati – The Embracing of an Undecided Fate.” Accepted for publication in Poiesis – A Journal of the Arts and Communication.
“Nietzsche’s Idea of ‘Bildung.’” Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 4 (2002): 30-36.
“Friedrich Nietzsche as a Bridge from 19th Century Atomistic Science to the Process Philosophy of 20th Century Physics, Literature, and Ethics.” Philological Papers (West Virginia University) 49 (2002): 21-29.
“Von der Skepsis zur Utopie: Musils Idee des ‘Essaysismus’”. Skeptizismus und literarische Imagination. Ed. Bernd Hüppauf and Klaus Vieweg. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003.
“Nietzsche’s Ontological Roots in Goethe’s Classicism.” Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition. Ed. Paul Bishop. Boydell & Brewer Ltd (UK), January 2004.
Currently, Friedrich Ulfers is preparing a book on Nietzsche’s ontology and cosmology, and his conception of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, viewed from a scientific perspective. Affiliations: Member of the selection committee for the College of Arts and Science Golden Dozen Awards nominees; Member of the intradepartmental committee preparing the tenure dossier of Paul Fleming; Resident Director (for 2007) of the NYU Spring in Berlin program

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Richard Dawkins is of course a big name in the defenders of science, publishing several best selling books and started a foundation that bears his name.
http://richarddawkins.net/

The foundation also has a youtube account.
http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet

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It’s the calming before the storm
Alcohol sits nicely in your stomach warm
When you wake up hungover
You wish you were sober.

I’ve danced with the devil
And dreamed with the demons
Fell asleep with debt
Then fell short of breath
When you wake up hungover
You wish you were sober

Just be pretty but naïve
Anything you hear is what you believe
Let the rhyme get stuck in your head
Wish you had undressed me in your head

It’s the low before the high
It’s been so long you thought you would die
When you wake up hungover
You wish you were sober

And I’ll be counting the days that the sun goes past
With the clouds beneath my feet

Just be pretty but naïve
Anything you hear is what you believe
Let the rhyme get stuck in your head
Wish you had undressed me in your bed

‘Cuz we’ve been falling apart
Built to crumble from the start
I’m a cold metal machine
And I’ll do things you’ve never seen

Just be pretty but naïve
Anything you hear is what you believe
Let the rhyme get stuck in your head
Wish you had undressed me in your

Just be pretty but naïve
Anything you hear is what you believe
Let the rhyme get stuck in your head
Wish you had undressed me in your bed

‘Cuz we’ve been falling apart
Built to crumble from the start
I’m a cold metal machine
And I’ll do things you’ve never seen

And what they don’t tell you in church is
Saints are sinners too.
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