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Author Topic:   Fossils - Exposing the Evolutionist slight-of-hand
prionesse
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Message 15 of 90 (2105)
01-14-2002 6:27 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Fred Williams
01-11-2002 4:51 PM


I'd just like to reply to the sections of your article concerning paleoanthropology (my specialty):
The alleged ape-man ‘Lucy’ is another example championed by many evolutionists, but disputed by other qualified evolutionist scientists. Renowned anatomist Lord Solly Zuckerman once scornfully denounced A. afarensis as nothing more than a bloody ape!
But then Zuckerman, at the time of his initial analysis, had never worked with the original specimens, just casts. Also, since you cite the Ivory Tower (1970), A. afarensis had not been discovered at that point. The first A. afarensis specimen recognized as such was found at Hadar in 1973 (kneejoint AL 129-1), and the species was not formally coined until 1978 (correct me if I'm wrong). So, I take it Zuckerman was referring to the South African A. africanus, not A. afarensis. Zuckerman was very much a minority in his conclusions regarding A. africanus, especially after the Piltdown fraud was exposed.
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Prionesse
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