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Yes, this is why evolution has been the dominant theory in biology for over 200 years. apparently you creationist are so incompetent that you are unable to convince the majority of the scientific community and the rest of the world. Why is that again? Have fun with your demands of refutation when you are the one with the burden of proof.
 
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Evolutionists really like to hand wave some important impossibilities away.



Erectus were not smart enough to raise a totally dependent baby. Your story is now even less plausible than previously with small brained babies that may have been intermediately dependent on an intelligent mother that knows to go get her baby and feed her baby regularly because it can no longer seek its mother, protect it from the cold, which you have yet to describe at what ever time flavour of the month ascribes the intermediacy.

Let's also not forget that the supposed 900cc attributed to erectus, Turk, is based on a bias. Indeed there is no reason to think Turkana Boy is any more advanced than an orang is today, other than it may have been a biped like many apes, chimp, gorillas & orangs before.

Perhaps the reason why your chimp ancestry is sadly lacking in comparison of the plethora of supposed human bones you have, is because they adapted from something like Turk. Orangs are more similar to mankind and you do have a few ancestors for orang and no recent fossils for chimps except a few teeth dated to 500,000ya. Something is clearly amiss.

I assert Erectus were not even smart enough to light fires, a complex task by any means available, that a moron cannot understand, nor could they raise totally dependent infants.

I am afraid I see your scenarios as a handwave away of the obvious. Modern Mankind were here with this ape erectus but was scant, obviously, with a human metatarsel(if it is at all) and footprints, hearths for fire lighting requiring intelligence, as lucky finds in support of this assertion.
 
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I need look no farther than your sig, to know that you have absolutely no understanding of ToE. If you did, you would be able to explain why your sig is so false. One could make a case for a Poe.

As for your tortured explanations of ToE, it's a bit like being told that bananas make the best pacemakers in humans, but only on odd months in leap years when Jello pudding replaces blood in the circulatory system. Quite honestly, the only reason I read your posts is for some lulz. So keep em comin'.
 
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What makes you think that?

Homo Erectus had a cranial capacity of roughly 850-1,100cc, which would make them much more intelligent than gorillas. Why would an animal with such a larger brain somehow be less able to rear their young than an animal with a smaller brain.

Nobody is suggesting Homo Erectus gave birth to a Homo Sapiens baby - they gave birth to Homo Erectus babies. All other great apes are able to rear their young, why would Homo Erectus be any different?

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All mammals babies have to be weaned eventually. Why would Homo Erectus be any different?
That doesn't answer my question. All mammal babies - from mice to elephants - have to be weaned eventually. Why would Homo Erectus somehow be unable to do this?
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I don't understand your criticisms: either you're saying H. Erectus was so unintelligent they could not have raised their own offspring, in which they would have become extinct in a single generation. This seems phenomenally unlikely, considering less intelligent creature like a chimp or lemur can raise their own offspring successfully.

Or you're saying that H. Erecus was too stupid to raise a modern human baby. But - and I really should emphasize this - no Homo Erectus ever gave birth to a baby Homo Sapiens. The timelines don't even overlap: African H. Erectus, which we are thought to be descended from, became extinct roughly 500,000 years ago while anatomically modern humans first appeared 200,000 years ago.
 
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TOE has been nothing more than an unstable ever changing continually falsified theory for 200 years, where the only thing you lot agree on is 'it all evolved'. The how, when, where and why are still up for grabs.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proconsul_(primate)

Is Proconsul any less bipedal than todays apes with its short arms and more of a human skull than any thing inbetween?

Hapwood suggests its a chimp.

It is no wonder your researchers never present Proconsul standing upright it would make a mochery of your fossils.

What your fossils show is a short armed Proconsul adapting into the longer armed Ardi, Lucy, Erectus on their way to becoming some of the apes we see today....an ape to ape adaptation with no sign of mankind morphing from an ape.
 
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Proconsul wasn't a modern biped. It wasn't even a modern ape - it's considered a transitional form between apes and monkeys. I'm also assuming you mean "mockery", as there's nothing about Proconsul that makes evolution anything like ancient Peru.
 
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Proconsul wasn't a modern biped. It wasn't even a modern ape - it's considered a transitional form between apes and monkeys. I'm also assuming you mean "mockery", as there's nothing about Proconsul that makes evolution anything like ancient Peru.


Oh no you don't!!!! Proconsul is tailess as flavour of the month, meaning it is an ape........

Your link is pointless.

I have given up a picture of Proconsul that demonstrates proportionately shorter arms, regardless of whether or not it was a biped. My suggesting it is a biped is besides the point that short armed apes preceded long armed apes in the chimp and gorilla lines including Ardi and Lucy. That is the point.




Progmonk you titter on the brink by not being able to assimilate information into that inculcated evolutionary mind of yours. Now look at the pretty pictures...

Proconsul

Turk

Turk

Erectus
Erectus

Orangutan juvenile
Bornean orang female adult

Human skull.

1. Turkana Boy and other erectus look less human than either Proconsul or a female orang, and you would have to be blind or in denial not to see it.

2. Short arms are not a human trait, as Proconsul had them. Pelvises mean nothing because the humanised and now too dervied to be human Lucy has a 'human like' pelvis and is likely a chimp or gorilla ancestor.

3. The most parsinomous interpretation of the fossil evidence is that a short armed, ape like Proconsul adapated into the longer armed apes we see today and Lucy, Ardi and Erectus are or resemble their ancestors.

You are unable to falsify my 3 points or scenario. I have the evidence as demonstrated above. It aligns with the evidence better than evolutionists short, then long, then short arms. My points and scenarios align with the evidence despite the fact that it is biased in favour of evolutions flavour of the month. Erectus with more of a receding forehead than an orang is no more smarter than an orang or chimp today. They did not have suficient intelligence to light fires, a complex task, or nurse and care for totally dependent new borns.

Mankind were there to light the fires and hearths with erectus, if there really was any sign of fire lighting at all. Modern Mankind appears suddenly in the fossil record, amidst many ape ancestors, which is support for a creative event.
 
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Oh no you don't!!!! Proconsul is tailess as flavour of the month, meaning it is an ape........
It's true all apes lack tails, but then again so do some monkeys. Barbary macaques for example, no tails.

1. I'm not sure where you get that idea. H. Erectus had a much, much bigger brain than either Procunsul or an orangutan.

2 and 3. You cannot use one form of antomical evidence (in this case, short arms) to suggest that Proconsul was the direct ancestor of Ardi, Lucy and H. Erectus, then simply ignore anatomical evidence (pelvis shape) which suggests they were related to moern humans. It's cherry-picking.
 
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You don't understand the world of Science at all, do you. You have no idea what motivates Scientists nor how the system works so you recite this tripe. What do you do for a living? Whatever it is, you should stick with it as this is not an area in which you can grasp.
 
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Progmonk you titter on the brink by not being able to assimilate information into that inculcated evolutionary mind of yours. Now look at the pretty pictures...
Hello miss kettle.

1. Turkana Boy and other erectus look less human than either Proconsul or a female orang, and you would have to be blind or in denial not to see it.
One of the problems you're making is that your proconsul picture you're fond of is front on which hardly makes for a good comparison between the others.

from a more balanced perspective we see that proconsul's snout is far more elongated than any of the other of the primates you list, the canines far more pronounced than the orang which are more pronounced than erectus the cranial capacity of both erectus and humans appears to exceed that of the orang I can't tell that well though there isn't a size reference for these pictures.

2. Short arms are not a human trait, as Proconsul had them. Pelvises mean nothing because the humanised and now too dervied to be human Lucy has a 'human like' pelvis and is likely a chimp or gorilla ancestor.
My arms happen to be around 2/3rds the length of my legs, am I not human?
My leg-arm ratio may be different to proconsul but I fail to see your point.

3. The most parsinomous interpretation of the fossil evidence is that a short armed, ape like Proconsul adapated into the longer armed apes we see today and Lucy, Ardi and Erectus are or resemble their ancestors.
Well the cranial capacity of some of the species you list would disagree with that interpretation.

So you have radiometrically tested these fossils and found that procunsul lived far later than we think and are willing and able to show your findings to a peer review board, you'd be praised in the scientific community if you could, look at all the hubbub over the results that CERN just got from finding a particle that travels faster than the speed of light. Science destroying evidence is always welcome, indeed it is sought heavily after.

Mankind were there to light the fires and hearths with erectus, if there really was any sign of fire lighting at all. Modern Mankind appears suddenly in the fossil record, amidst many ape ancestors, which is support for a creative event.
 
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Loudmouth, your classifications lay in shatters.

Proconsul is short armed, whatever you lot want to class it as. So non human primates have gone from short arms to long arms then back to short arms. Rubbish. My explanation is fine and the proconsul pelvis can morph to whatever I want just like you lot can assert about anything and excuse anything contradictory with a hand wave.

Bipedalism is not a human trait. Reduced pelvis are not a human trait. A Female Bornean orang and Proconsul look closer to mankind than erectus. One needs your stupid algorithms and convolutions and non plausible scenarios to turn an ape brain into a intermediate. Gorillas can have up to 650cc, not much smaller that the biased sixe you give erectus.

Erectus are apes. Turkana Boy is an ape that has aquired longer arms than Proconsul on its way to becoming some other kind of ape, like the ones you lot should have found by now...but are missing.

You may not like my story. That does not concern me. However it is irrefuteable, because it is a theory and an interpretation of the data according to Astridhere.
 
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So handle it Loudmouth, I can make up stories just like you evos can. My scenario demonstates your fossils are on their way to modern apes, pelvis, skulls and all. Mine are more plausible and parsinomous with the data.
 
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So handle it Loudmouth, I can make up stories just like you evos can. My scenario demonstates your fossils are on their way to modern apes, pelvis, skulls and all. Mine are more plausible and parsinomous with the data.

No, they are not. Not by a long shot.
 
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No, they are not. Not by a long shot.


Then refute the irrefuteable with all your likely's maybe's and possibly's.

You lot haven't got the readies to challenge anything..

How, when, where and why are still up for grabs by any headline seeker


 
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