Paleoanthropology is a fake science, take II

[JTEM]

This is amazing. I mean, it’s truly staggering.
What follows is the application of the exact
same argument I have seen from Young
Earth Creationists many, many times, and
yet it’s supposedly coming from a person
of science:

“For a long time, everyone assumed that
homo erectus evolved from homo habilis
[1.44 million to 2.3 million years], but later
it appeared that homo erectus and homo
habilis lived side by side in Africa for
hundreds of thousands of years, so one
cannot evolve into another and both survive,”
Ferring said. “That raises the question
where homo erectus came from.”

This argument usually takes the form of,
“If we evolved from Apes then how come
there are still apes?”

Evolution isn’t magic. A species doesn’t
just transform into something else. The
usual explanation is that evolution doesn’t
work on a species at all, it works on a
population. In other words, Dinosaurs
didn’t evolve into birds, and even a specific
species of Dinosaurs didn’t evolve into
birds. What we think happened is that a
specific population of a specific species
evolved into birds. There could have
been hundreds of other populations of
that species — thousands even — and
there would be no reason for them all to
go extinct just because the environment
& genetics combined in such a way as
to allow one group to evolve into birds.

You can read the rest of it (and find a link
to the original article) here:

http://jtem.tumblr.com/post/32140062383

[Lee Olsen]

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On Sep 23, 9:34 pm, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is amazing.  I mean, it’s truly staggering.

http://tinyurl.com/bqpx5dp

[JTEM]

(Hey, mental cases: Try dealing with
the facts)

This is amazing. I mean, it’s truly staggering.

[Lee Olsen]

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On Sep 27, 11:07 pm, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try dealing with
> the facts)

http://tinyurl.com/2bclbfy
JTEM: "As many of you may already be aware, I am an
accomplished medium who has often channeled
none other than Nostradamus himself."

I see you have all the real facts. Keep up the good work.

[JTEM]

Sick fuck, Lee Olsen wrote:
[---Insane rant---]

We both know that you suffer from
a severe personality disorder, that
you post under numerous names,
numerous personalities.

This is a fact. We both know it.

Anyhow, even if those I.P. addresses
you keep posting were mine (and they
are not), that couldn't change a thing.
You're still a mentally disturbed troll.
You still suffer from a severe
personality disorder, you still post
under a number of identities, a number
of different personalities.

...every last one of them a goddamn
idiot. I mean, you couldn't even figure
out this much on your own!

[Lee Olsen]

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On Sep 30, 12:26 am, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We both know
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7015/full/nature03052.html

Dennis M. Bramble & Daniel E. Lieberman
Abstract
"Striding bipedalism is a key derived behaviour of hominids that
possibly originated soon after
the divergence of the chimpanzee and human lineages. Although bipedal
gaits include walking
and running, running is generally considered to have played no major
role in human evolution
because humans, like apes, are poor sprinters compared to most
quadrupeds. Here we assess
how well humans perform at sustained long-distance running, and
review the physiological and
anatomical bases of endurance running capabilities in humans and
other mammals. Judged by
several criteria, humans perform remarkably well at endurance running,
thanks to a diverse array
of features, many of which leave traces in the skeleton. The fossil
evidence of these features
suggests that endurance running is a derived capability of the genus
Homo, originating about
2 million years ago, and may have been instrumental in the evolution
of the human body form."

[JTEM]

Sick fuck, Lee Olsen wrote:
[---Insane rant---]

We both know that you suffer from
a severe personality disorder, that
you post under numerous names,
numerous personalities.

And, hey, just look at this thread, what
I said that enraged you so badly! You're
unambiguously mentally ill, and not just
a little bit...

[Lee Olsen]

On Sep 30, 11:16 pm, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...every last one of them a goddamn
>idiot. I mean, you couldn't even figure
>out this much on your own!

Message-ID: &lt;524d360c-87a3-47fc-adda-
a1c5ab...@z31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com&gt;
I happened across this group and post from JTEM. I can confirm that
the thing calling itself JTEM has been the bane of usenet for over a
decade, a troll of the most persistant kind.
The Nancy Boy used to laud it amongst a group called soc.motss, which
was a busy enough forum for transvestites and similar people.

He passed many a 'happy' evening trolling the alt.prophecies.
nostradamus group...which doesn't actually believe in Nostradamus by
the way. Abusive and with wild claims, stating he could 'channel'
Nostradamus, and would do so for a 'donation'.

A total fraud in every group he visits; his sole intentiuon is to
ingratiate himself with the members, and then to start his arguing and
escalate that into trolling, insulting and being the sort of nuisance
one would like to shoot.

I can be found still in alt prophecies...etc, and suggest anyone
interested to examine his past and his little loving male 'friends' of
the now defunct soc. motss group

The 'man' is an ignorant pig, a cheat, a liar and an insult to
humanity.

Hello JTEM.....Dance for me, Monkey, dance. (remember that)

Your Nemesis,

Werewolfy

[JTEM]

[Lee Olsen]

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On Oct 1, 10:10 pm, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can read the rest of it

http://tinyurl.com/4v2ed4s
JTEM wrote:
>Like I said, go on: Jump!

http://tinyurl.com/7vflru7
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:36:39 -0800 (PST)
JTEM wrote:
>You must cut open your tongue with a razor.

The FBI's line was busy, I'll try again later.

[JTEM]

[Lee Olsen]

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On Oct 2, 11:10 pm, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is amazing.

> You can read the rest of it

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/pdfs/2004e.pdf

Say hi to In His Glory Hole for me, will you?

[JTEM]

[Lee Olsen]

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wrote:
> “For a long time,

http://researchnews.wsu.edu/health/190.html
"The researchers compared the ancient tooth's DNA with modern DNA to
calculate
when the first Americans landed on the coast of Alaska. Using a
"molecular
clock" of mutation rates, Kemp estimated the first arrivals happened
within the
last 15,000 years."

[JTEM]

[Lee Olsen]

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On Oct 8, 7:31 am, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is amazing.  I mean, it’s truly staggering.

Message-ID: <95u1m35kgle3iht43...@4ax.com>
"Posting under various aliases is sock puppetry, that's how it is
defined.
Word games won't get you out of it.

People take your parodies seriously (that's clear from the ones
you've
posted under the name jtem), and I suspect that you get a kick out of
that
- which suggests you are deliberately trolling. That you also post
them
under other aliases certainly looks like trolling.

Responses to a recent post of yours in talk.origins:
"JTEM is actually on the side of science and evolutionary theory; I'm
sure that his heading is parody. However - he is unnecessarily
confrontational, and it is often over ideas that are unsupported by
the evidence, or are not well thought out, and he doesn't always take
well to being corrected or informed. "

"t has been a long time since I have visited this group and I have
lost a sense of the disposition of regular posters. I apologize to
JTEM for mistaking his post as that of a creationism advocate. I am
sorry, sir. Nonetheless, I encourage any of the creationists viewing
my post to simply replace JTEM's name with theirs and maintain the
scientific challenge regarding outrageous biblical claims. Imagine if
those in the evolutionary biology camp suddenly started maintaining
that because there is no proof that men can walk on water
evolutionary
theory is therefore proven. Can you picture the outcry from
creationists? "


Other comments from posters in t.o:
" All the
intelligence leaves the conversation when JTEM snips out all serious
discussion without comment, so that he can focus exclusively on
insults
and responding to "counter attacks", as you call them. "


"JTEM is interesting, in that he apparently holds a view of evolution
that either discounts or ignores molecular data, and strongly
disagrees
with people who believe that the molecular data are good indicators
of
evolution. I've found his explanations of why he holds this
viewpoint
to be obtuse, not well explained, and laced with sarcasm and
'put-downs'.


As a result, JTEMs views on the issue are not very approachable, and
I
still have no clear idea of why he disdains the molecular evidence,
other than he's convinced that it is somehow wrong. It's a pity
because I learn quite a bit from the professional disagreements
presented here.


It is entirely predictable that these behaviors are acting like a
lightning rod on this n.g., and I have to wonder if that isn't JTEMs
intent. "


(to JTEM);"Why can't you respond without
injecting insults and sarcasm? Any meaningful content is swamped by
the noise in your message. "


"I take from this that you have no intention of laying off the stupid
and useless insults. So be it. "


"You frequenty ignore serous posts:


-You ignored my post where I explained the difference between the
idea
that "random means an event can't be repeated" and the idea that
"repeats can be evidence against randomness".


-You ignored me when I explained precisely why the words "over time"
are not superfluous in the sentence "change in allelle frequency
within
a population over time".


-You pretty much ignored my criticisms of your 'dog giving birth'
analogy.


-You ignored my reply to your criticism of the 'candy bowl' analogy.


-You ignored my detailed description of my idea of evolution,
genetics
and natural selection.


-You ignored my example of a time when another evolution corrected
something that I said.


All of these posts were in conversations between the two of us, in
many
cases I was answering a direct question of yours. They were all 100%
serious. It's possible that you considered them so ridiculous that
they didn't warrant a reply, but then that's not the kind of thing
you
do, if they were really that ridiculous you would have pointed it out
and tried to make me look stupid. The problem here is that they
completely refuted something that you said, and I you couldn't admit
to
it. You are a coward, plain and simple. "


about JTEM:
"Yes, since the one in question just showed up yet
again to declare that mere factual incorrectness in
each and every case doesn't mean he ever lost an
argument. That makes him pure essense of Troll. I
guess JTEM has some "Humpty Dumpty word
meanings"-style definition of what "JTEM lost this
argument" would mean. "
and in the same post:
""I guess that's why they call JTEM's ignorance,
invincible!"


"This is just part and parcel of a long chain of
evidence JTEM has provided here of being abjectly
stupid. Identifying JTEM as once again proven stupid
in JTEM's own writing is hardly breaking new ground
in talk.origins. "


From the thread you started called
GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE!
"The problem is the difficulty of distinguishing JTEMist argument
from
JTEMist parody. "


I particularly like this one:
"Ok....you can insult me one more time...it's what you do best when
you
have no argument. "


And from Mark Isaak:
"The "like watching a train wreck" analogy comes to mind, but it is
not
really valid. Train wrecks are not nearly as fascinating; their
twisted
wreckage looks pristine compared to JTEM.


I particularly like how he quotes himself and thinks he has proved
that
someone else said something. "


So it's not most of the posters in the threads in sci.archaeology and
soc.history.ancient don't think much of JTEM (that's putting it
mildly)."
Doug

[JTEM]

This is amazing. I mean, it’s truly staggering.

[Lee Olsen]

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On Oct 13, 10:45 pm, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is amazing

>Evolution isn’t magic.

Thank you professor Brain Fart.
How profound, did your mommie help you write that?

[JTEM]

[JTEM]

[Lee Olsen]

On Oct 24, 1:22 am, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is amazing

http://tinyurl.com/6ydcb84
"Recent studies have revealed that 2–3% of the genome of non-
Africans might come from Neanderthals, suggesting a more complex
scenario of modern human evolution than previously anticipated. In
this paper, we use a model of admixture during a spatial expansion
to study the hybridization of Neanderthals with modern humans
during their spread out of Africa. We find that observed low levels
of Neanderthal ancestry in Eurasians are compatible with a very low
rate of interbreeding (<2%), potentially attributable to a very
strong
avoidance of interspecific matings, a low fitness of hybrids, or both
(Currat and Excoffier 2011)."

http://tinyurl.com/83vs4tp
"The discovery of H. floresiensis discredits the multiregional
theory
in a substantial way, as this new species
with several distinctive features that
could not have evolved into
modern H. sapiens."