{"id":49926,"date":"2015-09-13T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=49926"},"modified":"2015-09-13T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T21:00:58","slug":"is-evolution-racist-i-was-not-a-baboon-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/13\/is-evolution-racist-i-was-not-a-baboon-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Evolution Racist “I Was Not A Baboon” South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"HomoNaledi\"Prove that I was a Monkey Before don’t bring Old Baboon Bones<\/strong><\/h2>\n

“No one will dig old monkey bones to back up a Theory that I was Once a Baboon”<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Is this a Racist Natural Geograpic Picture ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cape Town – “No one will dig old monkey bones to back up a theory that I was once a baboon,” former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi tweeted on Saturday.\u00a0This led to a heated debate on Homo naledi, a new human ancestor discovered in the Cradle of Humankind.\u00a0When a follower countered that evolution is a proven science, Vavi responded: “Then prove that I was a monkey before – please don’t bring old baboon bones.”\u00a0The extraordinary new non-human species that buried its dead and lived in South Africa about two and a half million years ago was introduced to the world on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Zwelinzima Vavi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The discovery was found in a remote, deep underground chamber of the Rising Star cave in October 2013, 1.5km from Sterkfontein, a warren of caves that have been providing many of the clues on how humans evolved.\u00a0Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom said on Friday he believed the discovery would prove to be a boost to tourism to the Cradle, which also happened after it was declared a World Heritage Site.\u00a0But Vavi tweeted he wanted more proof.<\/p>\n

“I am no grandchild of any ape, monkey or baboon – finish en klaar. Now prove to me scientifically that I am,” Vavi\u00a0challenged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Premier Helen Zille also entered the fray. “We all derive from pre-historic hominids. Stop using Homo Naledi as an excuse to play victim. Marvel at evolution!” \u00a0When a follower responded that he agreed with Vavi, the former DA leader replied: “I’m sorry you feel victimised by science.”<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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Prove that I was a Monkey Before don’t bring Old Baboon Bones “No one will dig old monkey bones to back up a Theory that I was Once a Baboon” Cape Town – “No one will dig old monkey bones to back up a theory that I was once a baboon,” former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi tweeted on Saturday.\u00a0This led to a heated debate on Homo naledi, a new human ancestor discovered in the Cradle of Humankind.\u00a0When a follower countered that evolution is a proven science, Vavi responded: “Then<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}