AC> KK> The creationist sources you are accessing are referring to findings
AC> KK> from nearly a century ago.  Most of what we know about the hominids
AC> KK> has been learned in the last 20 years or so.
AC>We have seen some rather dramatic examples of it taking longer
AC>than 20 years for Evolutionists to give up on their support for
AC>the transitional status of some hominid fossils.
The hominid picture is reasonably well-established.  A skeleton
adapted to upright walking appears very early on, with brain size
largely unchanged.  Brain size then slowly increases, along with
a profound slowing of the rate of maturation into the adult form.
We don't look much like adult chimps, but we look amazingly like
fetal and newborn chimps.  But the question of who begat whom
is largely unanswered.
AC> KK> Fossilization is an extremely rare process.
AC>Too bad for you.  "Rare" means a more random sample which
AC>means a better picture of the history of life.
I would say exactly the opposite.  The acidic soils of jungles
and forests causes rapid decay of bones, so those animals will
be underrepresented.  Animals that die in conditions conducive to
rapid fossilization will be overrepresented.
So, of the
AC>billion of identified fossils, why are so few even alleged
AC>to be transitional?
Do you mean species transitionals or higher-order transitionals?
AC> KK> Good question.  Apes are apparently better adapted to their
AC> KK> jungle environment than we are, which is probably why it's
AC> KK> only been in our century that they're becoming threatened.
AC>Apes became threatened because the white man introduced
AC>African-Africans (heh) to an abundant supply of guns and
AC>medicine.  Before this century, Apes didn't have to worry much
AC>about spears tossed by populations which remained small in spite
AC>of astronomical conception rates.
So what you're saying is that the poor ignorant little darkies
should be left in ignorance where they belong, right?
AC> KK> Neandertals were
AC> KK> roughly twice as strong as H. sap.
AC>We have their bench press results?
You could learn why if you really wanted to.
AC> KK> Why does evolution favor weak humans?  Well, it doesn't.
AC> KK> Evolution favors whatever creature can adapt well to its
AC> KK> environment.
AC>With such truisms, you won't need to appeal to the evidence.
It can be demonstrated in the lab.  And if you ever get a secondary
infection from an antibiotic-resistant bug, you will have more
evidence than you really want.
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