June 30, 2006

EXTINCTION IS NEVER NATURAL:

Early signs of elephant butchers (BBC, 6/30/06)

Bones and tusks dating back 400,000 years are the earliest signs in Britain of ancient humans butchering elephants for meat, say archaeologists.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 30, 2006 9:39 AM
Comments

I am still a bit curious - if there are no species, how can there be extinction?

Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at June 30, 2006 6:25 PM

Because there's no such thing it's easy for us to get rid of them--they're just breeds after all. What matters is when God intervened and got rid of whole genuses.

Posted by: oj at June 30, 2006 6:34 PM

If only God would intervene and get rid of the "geniuses" too.

Posted by: jdkelly at June 30, 2006 8:19 PM

jd:

Which is exactly what the demographic implosion of rationalist Europe is.

Posted by: oj at June 30, 2006 8:26 PM
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