Ah, welcome to a blog about human evolution and find out about your ancestors.
The evolutionists’ faith in non-evidence that any court would fling out is as solid as their heads.
They have no inevitable, non-suppositional evidence and yet they keep quoting ambiguous and inconclusive ‘finds’ as if they were, well, proof. It is astonishing that people who claim to be intelligent, logical and honest have got themselves so wrapped up in their blind pure faith. Their witnesses have proved them wrong again and again, yet they still have faith!
The Rise and Fall of Lucy
A young lady called Lucy had held the center stage as the missing link. Her full name is Australopithecus afarensis. Discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, she shocked the world by exhibiting, beyond doubt, bipedalism combined with otherwise primate features. And this was but 3.2 million years ago.
The press immediately dubbed her as the missing link. She was but 3 foot 7 inches tall. But those of the faith are broad-mined in such matters. After all we had found 40% of her skeletal remains.
You or I may have said that she was merely a small monkey-like ape or ape-like monkey. Thank Darwin we have experts to guard us against such heresy.
The Truth About Lucy’s Evidence
In truth, there is not a shred of evidence that Lucy walked upright. Yes, they found some ape foot prints slightly older than Lucy. So, obviously, must be hers.
We have no idea how long her arms or legs were. Her half skull was completely smashed. So her bones when reconstructed could make a perfectly ape-like ape who hangs around in trees, or a chimp-like ape or even a monkey-like ape or an ape-like monkey.
It really all depends on which end result you want. The assumed reconstruction is not impossible. But it is not possible on a balance of probabilities because she is a million times more likely to be a small dead ape than an undiscovered human prototype.
Why Lucy Became the Missing Link?
However, palaeontology needed a break. It needed a find. Therefore obviously she was branded as the missing link and – at last – a human prototype.
She held centre-stage and millions of words of speculation and supposition were written and believed. Forget that she would have failed to convince any judicial system, she was under-age. Not only could the judge not hear her testimony, she should not have been called.
One may imagine how miffed she was when she was toppled by a new even older Miss World – ‘over 4 million years old’. Suddenly all the glamour fled to the new girl on the block.
But no one breathed a word about the slighted film star Lucy.
Enter Ardi – The New Prima Donna
Now I really do hold the elderly in the highest esteem. For obvious reasons, I have emphasised this quality to my children and grandchildren.
However, with the greatest of respect to the usurper of Lucy, Ardipithecus ramidus, who celebrated her claimed 4,400,000th birthday recently, she seems rather a prima donna. You know what I mean, a lot of sound but overblown and lacking real conviction on the high notes.
This ‘incredible missing link find’, known to her chums as ‘Ardi’ (what poetic imagination) had actually been sitting around for fifteen years or more in a drawer.
Only now have her promoting agents put together a plastic skeleton comprising computer-reconstructed pulverised and ‘squished’ bone fragments.
The Fragile Evidence Behind Ardi
In Science some seven years ago it was explained that the bone fragments were so degenerated that they needed removing millimetre by millimetre. That which emerged after many years was – no-surprises – a pile of bone fragments. These suggested a small chimp-like primate.
Time Magazine quoted one expert as describing a pelvis in situ in the ground as resembling ‘Irish stew’. We can presume he meant in appearance not taste.
Also, a further 100 odd fragments of various other Ardipitheci ramidi – her friends, relations and others – were found in the locality during the following season in a similar state.
And you know what? Now it emerges that in all ‘she’ – Ardi ispa – comprises 36 individuals stuck together and the presumptions drawn from moulds of all their mashed bones were used.
The full skeleton has been augmented by the mortal remains of others, having been crushed by hippos (stet?), fragmented and then “practically liquidised for 4.4 million years”. I do love close families – but 36 individuals sharing the same skeleton is rather claustrophobic even for me.
Ardi herself left us half a skull, partial hands and feet, one upper arm and one leg bone. In fact she is a very rare specimen in having been so generous.
Ardi’s Dubious Claims
Thus this upstart Ardi, who so rudely bumped Lucy as the oldest proto-human, is a plastic, multi-schizoid composite.
But how do we know that “there was little male to male aggression”? How do we know there was “good parenting amongst her family”? They found her dummy/pacifier?
Yes, brilliant and intelligent assumptions – but there might be room for caution before giving her the Noble Prize.
The number of learned papers that raved about her being, at last, the proto-human saviour was remarkable even for a small primate.
The Pelvis That Breaks the Claims
Now it is not polite to talk about young or old ladies in detail. Especially their appearance. So, here, I shall merely mention that her reconstructed, ‘Irish stew’ pelvis is a serious challenge to all the claims made.
Note and consider carefully that it is upon that part of her scattered anatomies that rest all the assertions of her walking on two feet.
Many experts, very sympathetic with the discovery team and being of their faith, nonetheless, are still very sceptical about Ardi’s chances in sneakers – never mind high-heels.
Further, Ardi had problems with her knees. They seem not to be in the right position for bipedalism. She could not have been bipedal. Definitely, she did not walk on her two hind feet. She was just identical with the primates we see today in this!
Having ousted Lucy, Ardi has been proved so far to be nothing more than a composite fossil of 36 small ground and tree primates.
From Saint to Non-Event
And, with grim justice, she in turn became the archaeological complete non-event of October 2009.
After sober thought, the experts concluded, quietly, that Ardi and Lucy have features no more different from other similar creatures than those of the gorilla are different from the features of the orangutan.
Lucy’s fewer bones provided so little evidence that she could be definitely not be dubbed as ‘certainly’ bipedal. Ardi and her family’s remains had proved this an insane presumption.
Little monkeys have made big monkeys of the experts – yet again.
Why Lucy and Ardi Are Still Celebrated?
What is amazing is that both young lasses are still toasted and feasted throughout the scientific community. They both have multi-million dollar shrines – huge mega-museums – built to them.
Yet they actually lived quiet uneventful lives and proved nothin’ to no-one. However, because of the arrogant mistakes made about them and the media’s howling and barking at the moon, they were canonised as saints of Darwinism.
Try dis-abusing any faith about one of its saints. This reminds one of the whale tale’s genesis – a presumption is so widely publicised that it then sticks – come what may.
The truth is that faith rules Darwinians. They need faith to keep them going. They still sadly are treating Lucy and Ardi as if they were Joans of Arc and have proven something.
The Bipedalism and Long Grass Theory
Another twist to this sorry tale illustrates the same point. This would be impossible to believe if it were not true.
Ardi has done a very monkey-like somersault. Although she is no longer bipedal, she is meant to have made great strides in our knowledge because she alone has proved a profound and astounding idea to be wrong.
And what is this idea that so needed disproving?
That bipedalism developed because of long grass.
No, don’t laugh. This was a serious suggestion. Long grass forced our ancestors to walk on two feet to see better. The Talmudist in me asks, ‘They couldn’t borrow a lawn-mower?’
The idea was that upright walkers obviously saw further and then were more successful and passed their college degrees and became humans.
The trouble is that scientists have known of numerous, non-humanoid creatures, which were bipedal primates and became extinct. They did not end up as palaeontologists, so bipedalism seems not to have been a deciding survival bonus for them.
Further, most of these bipedal proto-perhaps-humans seem to have used trees as often as the ground as route ways.
We are not talking Snoopy jumping up and down in the long grass – we are talking serious scientific suggestions.
Anyway, in some obscure and ever so clever manner, only understood by palaeontologists, Ardi has destroyed this highly-sensible theory. I must admit I, for one, am relieved. It really was worrying me. I am grateful to Ardi.
The Pattern of Bold Claims and Silent Retreats
So Ardi followed Lucy as yet another recent example of bold and fantastic claims suddenly being silently whisked away.
Even if she walked upright, (without crutches) before the hippos trod on her, Ardi really does not have any claim to be anyone’s great grandmother.
I would go further and unpardonably suggest that Ardi again shows that scientists do regularly accept the claims of their peers because they are in vogue, support the right team and promote the good guys.
We are shortly to meet another little girl brutally misused by more than one palaeontologist.
How the System Works?
The system is clear. The experts invent brilliant and often off-the-wall ways of squeezing their finds into Darwinism. They extrapolate an entire missing link from one tooth.
Then further finds disprove this wild and utterly unfounded theory. Nothing is said and the new finds are used for new baloney.
And the experts always say the same – not, ‘We were wrong.’ That is evolutionarily impossible. Rather, they mumble, ‘We only suggested, hinted at, made an educated guess at a hypothesis.’
It is obviously unnecessary to prove that a man or even a million men can be genuinely wrong; or that they will refuse to acknowledge this; or that they will continue with their folly. Human history proves this.
Faith Among the Faithless
The quintessential point here is that we are talking about objective, honest scientists – to whom the world pays homage.
Further, these men are in the main – the most outspoken deniers of religions. Yet they themselves accept insupportable ideas with faith and then learn of their errors and do this, repeatedly, unrepentantly and frequently.
They prove themselves men of obdurate and haughty faith – with incredibly short memories.
And no one breathes a word about the slighted film stars.
Real-Life Stories of Rags to Riches to Garbage
Just follow through some more real-life stories of rags to riches to garbage.
The Clovis People Debacle
This example occurred in 2010 when new methods of analysis of the sub-soil at the ancient Clovis People’s sites in USA completely refuted the experts’ opinion.
The experts stated that the sudden disappearance of the ancient men who occupied much of eastern North America, first found near Clovis, New Mexico was absolutely proven to be because of a comet that destroyed them.
Post 2010, however, the experts were equally firmly convinced that there was no comet and these Clovis People did not disappear at all but simply stopped making their typical spearheads.
You will ask, ‘Spear heads? Which spear heads?’ The answer will enlighten you as to archaeological methods and certainty.
The pre-historic Clovis People made spear heads of a particular shape. The post-historic archaeologists found these spear heads thousands of years later.
Archaeologists date matter roughly by the depth and type of soils in which it is found. Above a certain depth, they found no more spear heads.
No spear heads – no spear head makers – no Clovis. Therefore the Clovis People had become extinct.
Now you or I might merely have presumed that the Clovis moved, invented guns or got fed up of making stupid spear heads. Fortunately, we are not in charge of the world. The experts are. They were believed.
Later information proved them wrong and common sense right. The Clovis simply stopped making their typical spearheads. They had changed their methods of hunting and weaponry.
This tiny 180 degree turn-about was almost completely silenced.
The Carthage Child Sacrifice Myth
Another example: the experts had proven that Ancient Carthage carried out large scale child-sacrifice – rather like half of today’s flighty and selfish First World white parents.
However, rather than the 21st century method of abandoning children wholesale, the Carthaginians apparently actually slaughtered them.
That was ‘certain’ because they had found large concentrations of graves of children.
You and I may have said originally that having large collections of children’s remains simply indicates that they simply used to bury their children together. Luckily, we are not experts.
For expertise, you need real imagination, ingenuity, fantastical illogicality and a good eye for thesis funding.
That was until one Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz with his team meticulously examined hundreds of the children’s remains. This macabre endeavour has revealed natural death causes and today, the experts are ‘certain’ that child sacrifice was not carried out.
The Ever-Changing Neanderthal Story
Talking of such experts, one thinks immediately of Neanderthals. Actually that is unfair. I understand Neanderthal Man was both intelligent and realistic.
He was, we are assured, a ‘species’ (whatever that word means) of human which died out from competition with our own strain – Homo sapiens. A stocky sort of guy. He was heavily featured and he was unable to speak, but could distinguish bitter tastes(!).
This and much more has been deduced from the presence or absence of various bits of genome found in his remains.
Now common-sense may have suggested that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens were so close as to be members of the same golf club.
However, in November 2006, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, no less, stated that Neanderthals and humans did not interbreed.
The Laboratory and the Joint Genome Institute scrutinised the genome of the femur of a Neanderthal sweet old lady whose last birthday was purported to be 38,000 years ago. They stated that this liddle ol’ biddy and you were unconnected unless a claimed 350,000 years ago.
They reported perfectly reasonably with the material they had to hand: ‘While unable to definitively conclude that interbreeding between the two species of humans did not occur, analysis of the nuclear DNA from the Neanderthal suggests the low likelihood of it having occurred at any appreciable level.’
So thus spake the experts; and having spaked they move on – until…
Jews of a Bygone Era: The Joke of “Our” Neanderthal Ancestors
In 2010 other researchers in Leipzig found that the old dear actually was your granny and we were indeed family with the Neanderthals. Apparently we all share equal quantities of Neanderthal DNA and this proves that we simply intermarried and lived happily ever after together. Thus, we are all of mixed race – even the residents of Berlin.
Furthermore, the Neanderthal had been held to be ‘thick-skulled cavemen’ almost bereft of tools and raw-meat eaters.
Now – last September – the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory has challenged that entire view. All the past conjecture reported as ‘amazing new discoveries’ has been swept away again – before your very eyes.
The point is not the mistaken suggestion but the silence which announced its rejection. And again, silencia.
And I suppose the Neanderthals must have been the Jews of their era to get such a universally inaccurate and bad press. They certainly had funny noses.
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