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

Rick Wagler wrote:
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> "Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "Rick Wagler" <taxidea3@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> Yes. So what _really_ is the AAH?
> >
> > IOW, you're talking for years about something you don't know anything
> > about?? Remarkable.
> >
> Not nearly as remarkable as Elaine Morgan's admission that
> she never bothered to define the thing.
>
> > In short, AAT is the theory that the Plio-Pleistocene diaspora of genus
> > Homo went along the coasts http://www.onelist.com/community/AAT . Simple,
> > no?
> >
> It's not all about you, Marc. And with regards to your particular
> take it is a more spectacular failure than all the others in as much
> as your blithely ignoring the archaeological record of erectus grade
> Homo means it violates rule no 1 of hypothesis building ie an hypothesis
> **must** [note the word must!!] account for all relevant evidence
> or it fails. That's why hypotheses are modified continuously as
> data accumulates. Hypotheses that don't do this are automatically
> discarded as they are susperseded. Sorry, Marc, but this is how
> things work. Why do you think no worker in the field plays you
> the slightest bit of attention. I doubt even Tobias would vaguely
> contemplate such a grievously malformed farrago as your "coastal
> phase" hypothesis. So until and unless you deal with the Acheulian
> you have no hypothesis. It simply doesn't exist. Hypotheses are
> valuable things that drive research programs and trigger re-assessments
> of 'established facts'. You have produced nothing that accomplishes
> this since it is immediately falsified by data that has been in existence
> for decades before it was ever promulgated.
>
> > (And if for some reason you happen to think that our ancestors did never
> > live along coasts, I'd like to see your arguments. :-))
>
> For some reason I don't happen to think this. You and
> Algis share one peculiar character - you both have to be
> continually reminded by your opponents of what your
> hypothesis is.
>
> >> PS And while you're at it.....What *really* is the Savannah Theory?
> >
> > It's no theory, but a bunch of just-so ideas (originally based on a
> > geological misinterpretation of Dart), very popular in popular ideas of
> > human evolution & even still in PA, that human ancestors started running
> > on 2 legs to cover long distances on the savanna, that they lost their fur
> > to sweat when running over hot & open African plains etc., then developed
> > fat layers to compensate for this fur loss etc.etc. Incredible, no?
> >
> Can you spell s-t-r-a-w m-a-n a-r-g-u-m-e-n-t. In short
> how can you be so sure that conventional PA is bunk if you
> don't understand what it argues and why it argues it. You,
> McGinn and Crowley makin' beautiful music together....

At least he's dropped one item from his checklist - sun reflecting fur.

It's a start. (Of course, if he drops too much, there'll be nothing left.)

> Let's cut to the chase, Marc. You want to become
> Art Bell material you have to put together a grand
> melange of everything and anything that explains
> it all. Just the other night Bell had an "expert" on
> secret societies who explained how the British Royal
> family working through a front group called the
> British Israel Foundation used MI5 to channel funds
> to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Great fun!
>
> Top that!
>
> Get in the game!!
>
> Be a player!!!
>
> Rick Wagler
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