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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/2/2025 3:00 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   No!  Theories make predictions ALL the time!!   
      
   Once again, kudos for predicting the interbreeding of Neanderthals and   
   Sapiens, although, it appears to have been somewhat infrequent:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans   
      
   I'm sorry that you did not publish, but you were not the first scholar   
   to have held to this idea.   
      
   As for paleo anthropology, once again, it assumes no reversals in the   
   fossil, and that is a testable prediction that is being verified every   
   single minute of every single day!   
      
   Dawn   
      
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