Re: Homo erectus: racial variants of Homo sapiens?
Mitchell Coffey (mcoffey@grci.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:19:19 -0500
Jim Foley wrote:
>
> [this article is being posted on behalf of Alex Duncan]
>
> In article <32D4491D.23D8@fast.net>, A Pagano <apagano@fast.net> wrote:
> >The following is posted on behalf of David Buckna <dabuckna@awinc.com>:
> snip
> >>From Maclean's magazine (Canada's weekly newsmagazine):
> >***
> >That would place him [Java Man] in the era of modern humans---and argue
> >against an ancestral relationship."If these dates are right," said Philip
> >Rightmire, an anthropologist at the State University of New York at
> >Binghamton, "the multiregionalists will have to do some fast
> >thinking."...The new findings also challenge the rival Out of Africa
> >theory. That view holds that modern humans emerged in Africa as recently as
> >150,000 years ago and spread around the globe, driving Homo erectus into
> >extinction---well before the era pointed to by the new finding.(Maclean's,
> >science section,"The origins of man", Dec. 23, p. 69)
>
> Yes. So?
The poster evidently is one of those creationist who thinks that, if new
evidence means that a scientific theory must be discarded or changed,
then science is invalid.
> >Marvin Lubenow has an M.S.in anthropology and zoology from Eastern Michigan
> >University, and teaches at the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon,
> >California. He is also the author of "Bones of Contention: A Creationist
> >Assessment of Human Fossils", Baker Book House, 1993. According to Lubenow,
>
> So, Lubenow is a creationist?
Not only that -- he has a MASTER'S DEGREE!
> Well, that would mean that he's already made
> up his mind about the way the world works, and decided that no contrary
> evidence is going to sway his opinion.
And, being with the IRC, has signed an oath to that effect.
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> --
> Alex Duncan (posted by jim.foley@symbios.com)
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Mitchell Coffey
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