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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Bones as Facts
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 22:52:06 EDT
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>>>       18.  Stories claiming that primitive, ape-like  men  have  been
>>>            found   are   overstated  [a-c].
>>>            [goes on to list Piltdown, Nebraska man (Hesperopithecus
>>>            early interpretation of Ramapithecus, Java man, Peking man,
>>             skull 1470, "stooped" posture of Neanderthal, etc.]
>
>> Even if all of this is true, it has nothing to do with disproving
>> evolution.  It merely indicates that SOME evidence may have been
>> misinterpreted.  Owing to the immense amount of evidence for evolution,
>> it is no surprise that some of it has been misinterpreted.
>
>The phrase "immense amount of evidence" is a striking example of a
>handwave.  It amounts to, in fact, begging the question, because the
>gist of the passage is that misinterpretation of the "evidence" is not
>an isolated occasional phenomenon confined to insignificant findings,
>but that the evidence is *habitually* misinterpreted, and in relation
>to what are considered by evolutionists to be major pieces of the
>puzzle.  The family tree of man is regularly given substantial
>revision.

>Paul DuBois     {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--

My "immense amount of evidence" is as much a 'handwave' as you're
"*habitually* misinterpreted" claim, as in this article, NEITHER is 
supported by much.

Keith Doyle
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