Re: Man-eaters


claudiusd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Lee Olsen wrote:

The garden guarding
hypothesis was dead the second I pointed out how ridiculous it was for
apiths to guard anything at night, let alone a planted garden.

Night? Why would night be a problem?

Surely even you are not that stupid. First you claim apiths needed
trees to escape, presumably during the day (McGinn:"And the only safe
place against an
injured, pissed-off lion or hyena is high in a tree."),

Uh huh.

Wrong again dipstick, that is just exactly the opposite of the physical
evidence.



now you are
claiming they didn't need these same trees just as desperately at night

I never stated any such thing. You're off your rocker, as usual.

So, if that is the case, they didn't need trees for protection day or
night. Right?

(not to mention the obvious night vision handicap)?

What, "obvious night vision handicap?" Why is it that God has not

Leopards see better at night, on the ground or in trees than you (or
apiths) do.


gifted me with the same ability to see the emperor's new clothes.

I don't know why you see so well at night, maybe God gave you such
exceptional eyesight because he didn't give you any brains.

Any 5-year old
could see the contradiction here.

I guess that pretty much counts you out.

Says the loon who loves to make retractions:
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Jim McGinn: "Both tigers and lions evolved from Sabertoothed cats."

"The analysis shows that the sabertooth cats were a sister group to
the modern cats--that is, they diverged early on from the ancestors of

modern cats and are not closely related to any living felid species."
Barnett et al.: "Evolution of the extinct Sabretooths and the American

cheetah-like cat" Current Biology, Vol. 15, August 9, 2005.

Jim McGinn: "Well then I guess I stand corrected on this point."

You have been corrected on many points, but your someting less than
5-year old mentality doesn't seem to allow you to comprehend them.



What did they do, sit up in their
trees and piss on cape buffalo and lions to scare them away to keep
them from wrecking their garden?

I think it's comical that you would indicate that buffalo would so
carelessly enter treed habitat, at night given the ambush hunting
tactics of the miocene predators.

No, the idiot idea that "they never ventured more than 50 or maybe a
100 yards from the safety of trees." was a falicy of your own making
that you have totally failed to demonstrate.


Truth is, it would be impossible to
defend their planted gardens day or night.

It's night for their opponents also.

You might try going to the library for the first time in your life and
check out a book called BONES by Lew Binford.



Let's face it, your silly
hypothesis is the funniest comedy to hit sap since Ed's MAOAC.

Humans currently are effective at defending territory from hebivores.
Why would it have been different for the earliest hominids?

How early? The South African caves prove apiths could not defend any
better than antelope. Homo e could. Any thing else you would like to
know?





They didn't travel? Your imaginary evidence for that is?????

All of the evidence is consistentd with this supposition.

You evasive twit, what evidence?

All of it.

All of your delusions is what you really mean.





living in
close proximity to predators, which are the only groups that count,

You mean that you and the rest of the anthro-dimwit establishment
*choose* to assume that only extant hunter/gatherer groups can be used
as a model of prehistoric man. The truth is that this

You are such a brainless idiot you have forgotten what the issue was
already. Go back (if you are capable) and read again what Paul's claim
was. If you haven't got the brains to do that, take your wooden-man
argument somewhere else.

It's relevant because hunter/gatherers would have no reason to bury the
dead. They'd just move on.

That's what I said, what are you, a parrot?

Try to keep up, retard. You stated that extant hunter/gatherers, "are
the only groups that count," when modeling early humans. This is a
dimwitted notion based on absence of evidence (what you call negative
evidence).

No I didn't.

I quoted you directy, idiot.

No moron, what you did is take a statement completely out of context
that had nothing to do with "when modeling early humans" nor did I
imply it did. So quote where I used the term modeling early humans. You
lied again.

Give it up, you evasive twit. Everybody knows what you meant.

"Everybody'? Is that kind of like "we" where you are spokesperson for
everybody on the entire planet?





Did you forget something dipstick? Maybe it's your lack of
intellegence that acts as some sort of mental block preventing you from
using attribution marks.



assumption/conclusion is based on absence of evidence (what you
erroneously refer to as "negative evidence").

So, you still lack the intelligence to use a dictionary?

Take a class in philosophy of science. You've a lot to learn--trust
me.

Everyone has a lot to learn, what we get from you here is comedy.

Gee, that's funny. I kinda got the feeling you weren't enjoying this.

Got some real bad news for you Jim, not only do I enjoy this, I get
paid for being here. And in a distant way, you contribute to that pay.

You're overpaid, no matter how little you make.

Says the nutcase that thinks apiths guarded gardens.

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