Post by Marc VerhaegenWe can't post any more here?
Yes, of course we can. I've been on usenet since long before Google Groups,
and I have been toying with the idea of retiring but, I dunno.
Post by Marc VerhaegenPost by erik simpsonWith only JTEM to hold the line?
:-D He has his own writing style, but what he's saying is often very interesting.
I'm positively captivating!
I just steal from you and others, put it together in ways you don't
or won't, then leave it to smarter/less lazy people to work out
the details.
"Details/Schmetails," I say...
We were all born into the Out of Africa purity model. We were all taught
it. And we were all brought to Aquatic Ape by different paths. I know
my journey started *Way* different from yours!
Honest to God, I was a passive parishioner until here, until you. I
guess I didn't recognize it's importance, though like the Out of Africa
purists I did accept it as true.
THIS IS SIGNIFICANT! Even Out of Africa purity relies on Aquatic Ape.
For them it's all a matter of the WHEN and the SCALE, as they have
humanity spreading out of Africa via COASTAL DISPERSAL.
The only difference between me & them is that I was never in denial.
I accepted Aquatic Ape and I knew I accepted it...
No, what really "Triggered" me in the end was FINALLY noting that
Aquatic Ape was the glue: It's what held all the pieces together.
Wolpoff and his Multiregionalism was right. It was clear; he was
right. But he required interbreeding which the mainstream rejected.
They claimed it was IMPOSSIBLE! Well, Erik Trinkaus settled that!
...17 years ago I was arguing Neanderthal/so-called "Modern"
interbreeding over in talk.origins without a single person on my
side. Someone had to agree with me, but not one person would
join me in contradicting the status quo. And yet it was already
proven by the work of Trinkaus and others, but Trinkaus was the
star of that show.
But we needed a way to not only connect these disparate groups,
we needed to get them to all their separate "Regions" in this
Multiregional model in the first place.
AQUATIC APE!
So that, yes, THAT pushed me from passive parishioner to lay
Minister in Aquatic Ape -- preaching against the sin of ignorance
in the Out of Africa purity model.
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