Ape Man: the Missing Link is Still Missing | Dr. Jeff Tomkins

Dr. Tomkins discusses the lack of evidence of 'missing links' in this presentation.

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[bethyngalw]

22:13 I studied evolutionary anthropology at university. It was actually studying it there that finally destroyed evolutionary theory for me. I'll never forget my archaeology tutor, who was grading our papers on evolutionary anthropology saying that she thought the whole thing was ridiculous from an archaeological point of view. She said "they find tiny scraps of bone and a few stones and they construct a civilization. If I found that little in a trench (she was an expert in anglo-saxon archaeology) I would have to mark the trench as "empty"" Ever since then, I have looked at all these 'discoveries' with incredulity. Every scientific paper that they write about these fossils should contain just the line "we found insufficient evidence to form a meaningful conclusion."

(Incidentally, my focus was on establishing whether or not homo habilis was actually a tool user. The theory goes that stones cannot be broken more than 3 times by inanimate nature alone, and they cannot develop a bulb of percussion unless they were struck deliberately by human(like) hands to make a tool. Therefore as the stones found with homo habilis contained bulbs of percussion (BoPs look a bit like the inside of an onion, hence the name), and up to 5 faces from being broken, then they must have been purposefully struck. I used a hydraulic press to demonstrate that bulbs of percussion could form just thanks to angular pressure during things like rock-falls, pebbles being crushed by falling boulders, or even from the pressure of a large animal stomping on them. Alas, my research was unfinished, and therefore unpublished, as I had to put my studies on pause due to ill health. Occasionally I feel this urge to go back to work on it.

I'm not saying that homo habilis didn't make tools, plenty of animals make tools, including apes, and many more make use of objects they find, and use them as tools. I just wanted to test the hypothesis that they were proposing, that these features could not have come about by random chance, because they were using this as 'proof' that homo habilis was an ancestor of modern humans. Of course, unlike when homo habilis was found, nowadays they would not consider tool use as a reason to assign a fossil ancestral status, because it's now widely known that many animals make and use tools. It was learning that my professors freely acknowledged that fact, and yet didn't bother to question whether or not that might undermine homo habilis's claim at human ancestry, that was yet another reason to begin to view evolutionary studies with contempt. Whenever they discovered something that undermined their previous assumptions/conclusions, they just casually and indifferently acknowledged its existence while blithely continuing as if nothing had happened. No sense of self-examination, or call for adjusting the claims that had been built on the original discovery. Just a cursory nod to it and move on. Very, very, unscientific).

[chrisanderson]

Actually, the Nebraska Man tooth was of a peccary that is not extinct, but is alive and well in Paraguay. Another species that disappeared from the fossil record found alive, like the lobefin.

[anthonyb]

Another good book is "Bones of Contention" by Marvin Lubenow.

[dl]

Nikolai Valuev - the person with the prominent brow ridge has a medical condition called acromegaly. This tumour in his brain - which secretes growth hormone, explains his tall height, long arms and prominent jaw and brow ridge.

[hans.stein.]

Excellent presentation. Serious research.

One remark: The rabbinic (masoretic) chronology is of a later time (2nd cent a.d.) and should not be used for the biblical and early human history any more. (See Flav. Josephus and early Greek translations of Genesis)

[refusebdcvd]

Genesis 1 has a record of 100% accuracy. Darwinism has a 100% fail rate.

[atmanbrahman]

50% percent dna common with bananas... we're 50% banana