Re: Savannah lives


Paul Crowley wrote:

> Steve Leonard looks back to explain how landscape
> changes drew us down from the trees and out on to the newly
> formed African savannah. "

<snip>

> It explained how our ancestors
> shared this territory with the wildebeest,
> lions and hyenas.
>
> The whole thing was total and utter crap.
> Every sentence and phrase oscillated
> rapidly between the mindlessly banal
> and the completely wrong.

I agree. It also reveals what a bunch of phoneys the
anti-AAT pretenders are. Where is Clark, Eshleman,
MacFarland, Moore, et al. when this B.S. is put forth.
They all claim to have no hypothesis at all (or, at
least, no hypothesis that they are actually willing to
discuss). But their actions indicate otherwise in that
they never dispute these traditional evidence-free
notions and instead do nothing but draw attention away
from these real issues by constantly debating idiotic
notions like AAT with idiots like Marc and Algis.

If Clark, Eshleman, MacFarland, Moore, et al. want us
to believe that they truly have no hypothesis at all
then it only makes sense that they would scrutinize the
thinking of Steve Leonard (above) with the same fervor
as they do AAT. But they don't. And I predict they
never will.

This has much to do with the fact that these pretenders
have anthropologists-level training in natural selection,
meaning that in all their college education they had
about 2 or 3 hours of discussion about evolutionary
biology and then they were promptly indoctrinated with
the believe that humans are cultural beings and, therefore,
human evolution lies outside the realm of biological
evolution and instead takes place in the vaguely defined
realm of "cultural evolution".

Jim

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