Re: we're not going to see much sensible.

On Apr 20, 5:47 am, "Makouli" <m...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Day Brown" <daybr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Apr 19, 8:50 pm, Lee Olsen <paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 19, 6:24 pm, Day Brown <daybr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 19, 6:27 pm, Lee Olsen <paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> >That's
not stupidity, just asinine.

And your adding to the flame war is not?

Thats a statement of fact Lee.

What would you know about facts?
For one, facts are most often challenged in a disrespectful way.
There's no real attempt at discourse, only the effort to prove
superiority in order to feed an ego. Epictetus:"When I man showed me I
was wrong, I was grateful to no longer be thinking wrongly. But when I
performed the same service for another, he always went away angry."

I've worked with the retarded, and when you show them they are wrong,
they are not angry at me, but dismayed. Anger is often expressed as
asininity, and is a symptom of neurosis, not stupidity.

The facts in this thread are few; all the remains of the early
hominids at issue would fit in a foot locker. We have no way of
knowing whether they are really representative of most hominids alive
at the time, and the fact is, we really dont know how many there were
in ecosystems that did not favor the preservation of fossils.

The recent skull found in Chad was in what had been a seasonal delta
like the Okavango. We have no way of knowing if the bone found was
deposited there by floodwaters or whether the individual died in situ.
We know that animals, including hominids, when sick, even if normally
living on savannah, will seek water, and more often die near it. The
proximity of the waterway proves very little.

We really dont have many facts, and what we do have does not warrant
the passion I've seen expressed.

Would you please stop with the hand-wringing already?

You first.

Read Marco's posts.  

Done.

Then come back and say that there's
just too much passion in this debate.  

There is too much pasion in this debate. You have no viable
alternative.

The recent Carbon/
Oxygen isotope exchange should be enough of an example.

Why?

Marco will spend days calling "Savanna Fantasts" STUPID,
STUPID, STUPID --even when shown to have missed the
point by a country mile.  Then he'll shut up for 3 or 4 months
only to come back with the same flawed assertions.  

Assertion for which you admit you have no alternative. Right? Put up
or shut up jackass.

How
long has he been going on about sedges and C4?  

How long has Lee been going on and on about his endurant running
nonsense. Years?


Years?
How do you make sense of the assertion that hominid
microwear shows similarilties with Capybara and thus
clearly indicates a semi-aquatic lifestyle?  

Why not just present your alternative and let the chips fall where
they may.

Oh, that's right. You don't have an alternative. Mikey, it appears
you are down the river without a paddle.

How long do you
suppose you'll have to pour that in my ear before I want
to shoot you?  

Maybe you should find a hobby that doesn't involve thought.

Marco and Pauly and Dimmy et al richly
deserve every ass-kickin' they get--and so do you.

It's unfortunate that you don't have confidence in your own thinking
to let it stand on its own merits. Of course that would assume that
you had any thinking in the first place, which obviously is not the
case.

Is it not obvious that even a bad hypothesis, like Marc's, is better
than no hypothesis at all?

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