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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
     Andrew wrote:   
      
   > "Vincent Maycock" wrote in message   
   > news:ejf1ckh88mafp1st8jmjmdhfpeq39l32nl@4ax.com...   
   >>  "Andrew" wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >>> Now before you run off. Tell us about some specific   
   >>> paleo-anthropological discovery that shows that they   
   >>> have enlightened us about our ancestry, or anything.   
   >>> Please try to answer in your own words.   
   >>   
   >> The discovery of fossil ape-men like _Australopithecus_ and the   
   >> various ancient species of the genus_Homo_.   
      
   > Was this ""discovery"" a scenario that agreed with an   
   > a-priori philosophical script, and based on a structure of fantasy,   
   > rather than on actual science? Yes, or no?   
   >   
   > I suspect you are a "believer".You believe what they   
   > told you. Meaning that whatever they said, you fell   
   > for it. Right?   
   > But why?   
      
   Lol!  Nobody ever found various ancient species of the genus_Homo_.   
      
   People found fossils, yes, and they declared them THIS species and   
   THAT genus.   
      
   To give you an idea of just how idiotic it is, here's two examples   
   and by two I mean three:   
      
   #1.  Chimps. Yes it's not popular but there is a genuine, educated,   
   credentialed school of thought that says Chimps are too close to   
   us genetically, that they're a separate species from us but that   
   they actually belong to our genus.   
      
   Homo, not Pan.   
      
   The real difficulty here is that it's incredibly easy to say that   
   Chimps are not like we are. But, when we're speaking of the genus   
   Homo, it's not very easy to declare Chimps THAT far away from   
   so called "Ancestors" that lived millions of years ago. Plus they're   
   just very, VERY similar genetically.   
      
   #2. Dogs and wolves are classified as the same species. They weren't   
   when I was a kid!  And if they had that much difficulty with   
   animals they can inspect alive, view their anatomy, behavior and   
   even cross breed then you can guess how much less convincing all   
   the invisible lines they draw between populations that lived tens   
   of thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions of years   
   ago.   
      
   #3.  Naledi.   
      
   Naledi was a two million plus year old human ancestor that rewrote   
   the book on human evolution:  Homo naledi. And this was true even   
   after they shaved off about, oh, 2 million years off of it's age...   
      
   So you actually take Australopithecus sediba, add maybe 2 million   
   years of evolution, get some tiny cave ape that doesn't resemble   
   any of it's contemporary humans and you call it a human...   
      
   It's a social program. Truth is that local officials were up in   
   arms after the discovery of Naledi. They said that it was going to   
   fuel racism, that they were going to shut down the digs, no longer   
   allow the academics to perform their work and, next thing you know,   
   Naledi was hyper advanced! It performed the only prepared burials in   
   Africa for hundreds of thousands of years! Before it was all over   
   they were claiming carvings, WRITING, controlled fire...   
      
   Yeah, fraking social program!   
      
   I'm guessing that we never heard half the story! That, they got   
   DNA and discovered that there had been a little cross pollinating,   
   if you know what I mean, and this got everyone upset.   
      
   For Christ's sake, people do the naughty with farm animals! Wtf?   
   Why is this suddenly an issue?   
      
   And "Molecular Clocks" are nonsense anyway. Maybe this cross   
   pollinating, if it happened, was 500,000 years ago, maybe it was   
   2 million years ago. But, I guarantee it wasn't when whatever the   
   "Molecular Dating" claimed.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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