Re: Discovery Channel Comedy
- From: "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 May 2005 00:01:13 -0700
richardparker01@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jim McGinn wrote:
> Yes Jim, you're probably right, but how can anyone ever prove that
> brain size grew with social factors?
Nothing else fits.
> How can anyone ever show just how large (or small) early human groups
> were?
We can make reasonable
> This kind of discussion or theory-proposing just shows how
desperately
> short of real facts the whole of the study of paleaoanthropology
really
> is.
There is no shortage of facts with which we can
piece together the situational factor of hominid
evolution. The problem is paradigm based
ignorance and faulty thinking that has become
institutionalized. It's truly a case of the
blind leading the blind. (Which, no doubt, has
much to do with the fact that Paleoanthropologists
have been indoctrinated with a just-so-story
approach to evolutionary hypothesis building.)
> I am currently reading 'Harmsworths Ancient History' published in
1927.
> Apart from the over-emphasis it puts on 'Piltdown Man' almost every
> other 'fact' it proposes is exactly where the current paradigm still
> stands today.
Yes, little has changed since Darwin.
> When I can get time, I intend to publish a list of 'archaeological
> facts' proposed then, under the title 'Archaeology of
> Palaeoanthropology' and ask everyone on this list if they've learned
> anything new.
For the most part they don't know enough to know
how little they know.
Jim
.
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