Paleoanthropologists bungle again…

_{Salvador Cordova

August 9, 2007

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It understandable that scientists make mistakes, but one would hope an entire scientific discipline could get at least one fact right once in a while. My friend Casey Luskin, an attorney and scientist at the Discovery Institute, reports: Paleoanthropologists Disown Homo habilis from Our Direct Family Tree.

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Homo habilis is as an evolutionist delusion and always has been. This "trash can" taxon is the archtype of how Darwinists, like a psychotic looking at a Rorschach inkblot test, impose their materialist fanatasies on the evidence. If you recalll, Skull KNM-ER 1470 was homo habilis, which we learned in March of this year was manipulated by Leakey to look human. It was blogged about on UD here. Meanwhile, TalkOrigins still flogs Leakey's flawed view of KNM-ER 1470. Because TalkOrigins is all about the science. Right? Now homo habilis has been moved out of the human lineage? Let's see how long it take that development to register over at TO.Jehu_{August 9, 2007
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Someone said once, and I agree, that if one skull can overturn everything you thought you knew, you didn't know much to begin with.geoffrobinson_{August 9, 2007
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Indeed, this was one of Jonathan Wells' points in chapter 11 in Icons of Evolution, "From Ape to Human: The Ultimate Icon."
Another ID proponent vindicated.scordova_{August 9, 2007
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Does ID say that we do not have apelike ancestors? No. It says we have ape-like anthropologists.DaveScot_{August 9, 2007
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I remember on some site - I forget where - there was a challenge to people doubting darwinism. There were a couple row of skulls shown off, and doubters were told 'If you think you're so smart, how about you pick out which skulls are human, and which aren't?? Then check your results!' I can't help but smile, thinking the person who made that cute little quiz likely has to go redo at least one of the answers.nullasalus_{August 9, 2007
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Thanks Angry, for the link and covering my behind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaKryi3605g You are right, he completely evades the question that he should have countless examples of to prove evolution is true.bornagain77_{August 9, 2007
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Hi bornagain77, Before one of the Darwinists come in here to bust on you for posting a "hoax" video, here is another link to the raw footage of that Dawkins interview, in which we see that Dawkins was indeed asked that question and did indeed "choke" and decided to completely evade the question. The reason why they will say it is a hoax is because they either do not know or conveniently ignore the way interviews for most TV segments are done. The big-name reporter rarely sits down face-to-face with the interviewee. He/she usually sends low-level producers to ask the prepared questions and film the answers, which are then edited to fit the time (and possibly the agenda) of the TV segment. Of course, this interview method has been going on for decades. It's on the decline now because of the ubiquity of video equipment that can be used to refute a TV new show's occasionally skewed portrayal of interview subjects. This and many other questionable practices over the past thirty years have made me very skeptical of things I see on TV.angryoldfatman_{August 9, 2007
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What an excellent summer for ID. First Lucy was disproven, Then the stunning complexity of the Human genome was further clarified by ENCODE, now Homo Habilis is disgorged from its iconic status. Tis truly a fine time to be a IDist.
Does ID say that we do not have apelike ancestors?guppy_{August 9, 2007
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0IMof-8Hro This 20 second youtube video of Dawkins is very revealingbornagain77_{August 9, 2007
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Could textbooks be wrong? Say it isnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t so! Editor's Summary: Nature 448, 9 August 2007 Head to head Ã¢â‚¬Å“. . .new fossil discoveries tell a different story. A particularly small Homo erectus skull, and jaw material from a late-surviving specimen of Homo habilis, were found in contexts that suggest that the two species coexisted in the Lake Turkana basin in Kenya for almost half a million years. As well as overlapping in time, H. habilis and H. erectus overlapped in size as well. A high degree of sexual dimorphism in H. erectus may be a factor in this. The cover shows the new Homo erectus fossil, a partial skull known as KNM-ER 42700, together with the largest African H. erectus, OH 9 from Tanzania.Ã¢â‚¬Â Letter: Nature 448, 688-691 (9 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature05986 Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya F. Spoor1, M. G. Leakey et al. Ã¢â‚¬Å“. . .The new fossils confirm the distinctiveness of H. habilis and H. erectus, independently of overall cranial size, and suggest that these two early taxa were living broadly sympatrically in the same lake basin for almost half a million years.Ã¢â‚¬Â How can they now demonstrate evolution without transitional fossils? Have we returned to Darwin's predicament? "The number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, (must) be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory." Charles Darwin The Origin of Species (1859) VI. Difficulties of the TheoryDLH_{August 9, 2007
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What an excellent summer for ID. First Lucy was disproven, Then the stunning complexity of the Human genome was further clarified by ENCODE, now Homo Habilis is disgorged from its iconic status. Tis truly a fine time to be a IDist.bornagain77_{August 9, 2007
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