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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/2/25 9:21 AM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   > On 9/1/2025 11:32 PM, JTEM wrote:   
      
   >> Paleo anthropology isn't a science. Science is a method,   
   >> and approach. Paleo anthropology is politics, a social   
   >> program at best.   
      
   > No, it is science, because, it makes predictions.   
      
   No. That would be a hypothesis. The "Science" comes into play when   
   it comes time to test this hypothesis.   
      
   Two two massive problems here is that all evidence is interpreted   
   strictly within the terms of the pre existing conclusion -- the   
   a-priori assumption -- AND that conclusion remains intact no matter   
   how badly it is falsified.   
      
   And this isn't new. It's been the case for generation, your whole   
   life. I got into a knock down, dragged out flame war over in   
   talk.origins on the topic of Neanderthal interbreeding (nobody   
   agreeing with me that they did) and yet the physical evidence in   
   the fossil remains was already generations old. AND THEN the DNA   
   evidence came along and everyone flip flopped, agreed with the   
   folks like me, still hated us for saying stupid things like "They   
   interbred," and still clung to every last belief they had held   
   before they were handed the proof of interbreeding...   
      
   I spelled it out for you already:   
      
   Paleo anthropology is a fake science. It refuses to adhere to   
   scientific methods. Instead, it is one giant selection and/or   
   preservation and/or sample bias.   
      
   We don't even get into the circular idiocy of beginning with their   
   conclusion. No, it fails as a science before we even reach that   
   far.   
      
      
      
      
      
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