Re: Radio: The Scars of Evolution (Aquatic Ape Theory)


"Algis Kuliukas" <algis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Algis Kuliukas" <algis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> But 'this most modest idea' is merely a cover
>> for the usual nonsense. Much of the program
>> was about the greasy covering often found
>> on pre-term human infants. Apparently it's
>> also found on harbour seal infants. So we
>> have 'proof' that humans once lived in much
>> the same way as seals.
>>
>> This was not stated, of course. But that
>> was the clear implication. The bone-headed
>> nonsense is always there, hiding just below
>> the surface, using its cover of a meaningless,
>> banal 'pretend-scientific' theory of 'more
>> contact with water than chimps'.
>
> So what's your explanation of the vernix, Paul?
>
> Algis

What the pediatricians say it is - an anti-microbial
defense for the immunologically naive fetus, perhaps....
or to rephrase, what the hell do the seals have to do
with anything?

Rick Wagler


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