Reflectorites
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:54:39 -0600 (CST), Wesley R. Elsberry wrote:
>SJ>As Elaine Morgan asks, "If we
>>are so closely related to them-and everything we have learned
>>since suggests that the relationship is even closer than
>>Darwin supposed - then why are we not more like them?" (Morgan
>>E., "The Scars of Evolution", 1990, p1)]
[...]
WE>Would that be the same Elaine Morgan who is an Aquatic Ape
>Hypothesis enthusiast?
Wesley *knows* very well that it is the same "Elaine Morgan"!
But what exactly is Wesley's point? Is he implying that someone (even a
fellow evolutionist) who may be wrong in one thing, must therefore be
wrong in *all* things, and so should not be paid any attention to?
Personally I believe that truth can be found anywhere and everywhere,
including in evolutionists' writings.
Those evolutionists who are prepared to risk the ostracism of their
fellows by honestly criticising aspects of evolutionary theory (even though
they remain evolutionists themselves), I find particularly helpful.
After all, one does not have to accept an evolutionist's solution in order to
accept their diagnosis of the problem.
BTW I note that Wesley ignore's Morgan's question. If we are so closely
related to the apes genetically, then why *are* we so different from them?
Steve
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"When we consider the remote past, before the origin of the actual species
Homo sapiens, we are faced with a fragmentary and disconnected fossil
record. Despite the excited and optimistic claims that have been made by
some paleontologists, no fossil hominid species can be established as our
direct ancestor...The earliest forms that are recognized as being hominid
are the famous fossils, associated with primitive stone tools, that were
found by Mary and Louis Leakey in the Olduvai gorge and elsewhere in
Africa. These fossil hominids lived more than 1.5 million years ago and had
brains half the size of ours. They were certainly not members of our own
species, and we have no idea whether they were even in our direct ancestral
line or only in a parallel line of descent resembling our direct ancestor."
(Lewontin R.C., "Human Diversity", Scientific American Library: New
York NY, 1995, p163).
Stephen E. Jones | sejones@iinet.net.au | http://www.iinet.net.au/~sejones
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