Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"
Ed Conrad (edconrad@prolog.net)
Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:56:03 GMT
edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad) wrote:
>Newsgroup question:
>> Is Lucy a Monkey?
>Damn right it is!
>``Lucy" is nothing more than a member of the ``monkey" family,
>with no connection -- none whatsoever -- to early man . . .
>To put it rather bluntly, ``Lucy" is a mockery of scientific
>integrity (if some still exits in the field of physical anthropology,
>which I sort of doubt)).
Okay, smartass, when it comes to rating various professions for
respectibility, where do you place physical anthropologists on a
scale of 1 to 10.
Uh, well, let's see, uh, okayl . . . How's a minus-2?
Bank robbers, art thieves and pickpockets are a minus-1.
To my mind, the ONLY physical anthropologist who possessed scientific
integrity in a search for honest answers to legitimate questions about
man's origin and ancestry was the late Dr. Earnest A. Hooton, longtime
professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
It says a lot about the man's integrity and intestinal fortitude when
he could write a book, appropriately titled ``Apes, Men and Morons."
Two quotes in his book stand out like beacons:
> ``I can point to many anatomical features of man
> in which the known courses of evolution can be
> explained plausibly by the theory of natural
> selection, but I do not know of one in which
> it can be proved."
> +++++++
> ``I am also convinced that science pursues
> a foolish and fatal policy when it tries to keep up
> its bluff of omniscience in matters of which it is sitill
> woefully ignorant. Sooner or later the intelligent
> public is going to call that bluff."
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