(08-31-2023, 07:02 PM)BIAD Wrote: Oooh, this is gonna smart!
Quote:Human and ape ancestors arose in Europe, not in Africa, controversial study claimsLive Science:
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Evolutionary questions
One question these findings raise is why, if hominines arose in Europe, they are no longer there, except for
recently arrived humans, and why ancient hominines did not also disperse into Asia, Begun said. "Evolution
is not very predictable," Begun said. "It happens as a series of unrelated and random events interact. We can
assume that the conditions were not right for apes to move into Asia from the eastern Mediterranean in the
late Miocene, but they were right for a dispersal into Africa."
As for why "we do not find African apes in Europe today, species go extinct all the time," Begun said.
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First off, I do not believe in the Church of Evolution. It's basis is scientifically unsound. When I see a horse hatch out of a chicken egg, then maybe I will consider it a possibility for one species to give birth to another species, but until that day comes, no. Observation does not support the theory. The argument that it was gradual mutations does not hold water, either. Most mutations are harmful, and kill of their mutants without offspring, and therefore could not possibly be passed on. It would take about 20,000 mutations, ALL of them of the minority beneficial sort, for an eye to evolve from nothing, and several of those mutations would have to be concurrent, in the same individual, because they are interdependent, and that is vanishingly improbable.
Consider this: horses, camels, and dogs all originated in North America. By the time Europeans arrived on these shores, there were no more camels or horses in North America, and all of the dogs present here were imports from Asia. This means that all of those critters, while originating here, had sent progeny to the rest of the world, and then went extinct in their homelands, leaving the world to think that they originated in the Middle East, Afica, and the Asian steppes.
So it's not really hard to explain why there are no modern early hominins in their homeland, either. That crap happens all the time in the archaeological record. The people bringing that objection up are entirely ignorant of science, no matter what the letters before their names stand for. What they are doing is just defending their politically correct pet theories, which these European discoveries disprove.
If humanity survives long enough, they will eventually find that humans originated in the southeastern Turkey-Georgia-northern Levant area. That is where all the actual evidence points to as an origin point, and is fairly close to the homelands of these fossils as well as the earlier and concurrent similar fossils found in Greece and Bulgaria.
I never mention this to "scientists" or the high priests of "science", because it would cause them to wail, gnash their teeth, tear their robes, heap ashes upon their own heads, and probably turn me over to The Inquisition.
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