Hebrews 13:8
"The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution (New Scientist, 13 Dec 2023).
"The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution (New Scientist, 13 Dec 2023).
Q: How can anyone trust a “science” that gets rewritten every time a new bone turns up? Reporter Michael Marshall, who believes humans evolved from apes, doesn’t know what to think any more. Read his embarrassing opening sentences:
Stuff happens, he says, and it happened in the past; we know because stuff got found.
"At this point it’s a truism that the story of human evolution is being
rethought. Discoveries in recent years have forced us to rethink many crucial points, such as how old our species is – about 300,000 years old as opposed to 200,000 – and what extinct hominins like the Neanderthals were really like.
2023 was equally dizzying: discoveries continued to come thick and fast. But because there are so many species and eras involved, it’s hard to discern the common threads linking them – at least, beyond “we found out some more stuff”."
Stuff happens, he says, and it happened in the past; we know because stuff got found.
---Those ending sentences betray a long-standing problem in evolutionary anthropology: it is constantly being rethought. That has become a “truism” that continued into “dizzying” 2023.
A truism is a “self-evident, obvious truth”—in this case, that human evolution is constantly being rethought. If thoughts don’t stick, they must not be very good thoughts."
CEH
