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Domesticated plants and animals clearly seem to have been __ the encroaching savannas to begin making their collective liv- genetically created by "outside intervention" at some point in ing. This means they had to rise from the assumed the distant past. (For those interested in learning more about quadrupedal posture attributed to all Miocene apes to walk and this, I discuss it in considerable detail in NEXUS 9/04.) run on two legs, thus giving up the ease and rapidity of mov- Domesticated species have so many points of divergence from ing on all fours. Those early groups had to make their way wild/natural species, it's not realistic to consider them in any with unmodified pelvises, inappropriate single-arched spines, kind of relative context. As we've seen above, the same holds absurdly under-muscled thighs and buttocks, and heads stuck true for humans and the primates we supposedly evolved from. on at the wrong angle, and all the while doggedly shuffling They're apples and oranges. along on the sides of long-toed, ill-adapted feet, thereby We humans have over 4,000 genetic defects spread through- becoming plodding skin-bags of snack-treats for savanna out our common gene pool. Think about that. No other predators. If any harebrained scheme ever deserved a re-think species comes close. And yet, our mitochondrial DNA proves by its originator(s), this would be the one. we have existed as a species for "only" about 200,000 years. Of course, the real re-think needs to be done by Darwinists, Remember the first Cro-Magnon fossils showing up in strata because it is glaringly obvious that no forest-bound species of 120,000 years old? That fits well with the origin of a small ape could have ventured onto the savanna as a stumbling, proto-group at around 200,000 years ago. (There will almost bumbling walker and learned to do it better out there among certainly be Cro-Magnon fossils found prior to 120,000 years _ the big cats. If a collective group had been unfit for erect ago, but it is unlikely they were dispersed widely enough to movement on the savanna, they wouldn't have gone. If they have left fossils near the 200,000-year mark. Naturally, the did go, they couldn't and wouldn't stay. Even primates are very first one could have been fossilised, but that's not the way smarter than that. And understand, there are primates that did to bet. Fossilisation is quite rare.) make the move onto the savanna, albeit always remaining All that being the case, how did over 4,000 genetic defects within range of a high-speed scurry into nearby trees. work their way into the human gene pool, when such genome- Baboons are the most successful of this small group, all of wide defects are rare to nonexistent in wild or natural species? which have retained quadrupedal locomotion. (Remember, Darwin himself noticed In addition to the forest-to-savanna that humans are very much like transition, Darwinists face numerous domesticated animals in many of our other improbable—if not physical and biological traits.) It can impossible—differences between only have occurred if the very first We humans have over 4,000 humans and terrestrial primates. In members (no more than a handful of . fi addition to bipedalism and the breeding pairs) had the entire pack- genetic de ects spread genetic discrepancies already age of aults within their genome. throughout our common gene addressed there a major at's the only way Eskimos an . ifferences in skin and the adipose Watusis and all the rest of humanity pool. Think about that. tissue (fat) beneath it; in sweat can express the exact same genetic No other species comes close. glands, in blood, in tears, in sex disorders. organs, in brain size and function, If we descended from apes, as and on and on and on. This is a very Darwinists insist, then apes should long list that can be examined in have a very large number of our much fuller detail in the work of a genetic defects. They do not. If, on the brilliant, determined researcher into other hand, we've been genetically unique for only 200,000 human origins, named Elaine Morgan. years, then the only way those defects could be with us is if Ms Morgan is the chief proponent of what challenged they were put into our gene pool by the genetic manipulation Darwinists derisively call "the Aquatic Ape theory", as if the of the founding generation of our species, and the mistakes —_ juxtaposition of those disparate words were enough to dismiss made in that process were left in place to be handed down to it as an absurd notion. Nothing could be further from the truth. posterity. And, as might be expected, this is also how domes- In books like The Scars of Evolution (Souvenir Press, London, ticated plants and animals came to have their own inordinate 1990), she makes a devastating case against the notion that numbers of genetic defects. It simply couldn't happen any humans evolved from forest-dwelling apes that moved out other way. onto the savannas. She believes humans must have gone through an extended period of development in and around THE FINAL NAIL... water to generate the bizarre array of physiological oddities we When Einstein was asked in reference to relativity, "How exhibit relative to the primates we supposedly evolved from. did you do it?", he replied, "I ignored an axiom." This is what However, despite all her wonderfully creative work, Ms everyone must do if we are to get anywhere near the truth Morgan remains wedded to the Darwinist concept of evolution, about human origins. which had to play itself out in only the 200,000 years dictated Darwini axiom: by our mitochondrial DNA. us to believe a theory based on thi WThara 2 z not We humans have over 4,000 genetic defects spread throughout our common gene pool. Think about that. No other species comes close. THE FINAL NAIL... When Einstein was asked in reference to relativity, "How did you do it?", he replied, "I ignored an axiom." This is what everyone must do if we are to get anywhere near the truth about human origins. Darwinists ask us to believe a theory based on this axiom: "There are good grounds to believe our early ancestors lived in forests. There are equally good grounds to believe our later ancestors lived by hunting game on African savannas. Therefore, we can assume that somehow, some way, we went from living in forests to living on the savannas." The trick, for Darwinists, is in explaining it plausibly. Savanna theorists ask us to believe that, 5.0 to 10 million years ago, several groups of forest-dwelling Miocene apes were squeezed by environmental pressures to venture out onto MAKING SENSE OF THE INSENSIBLE The pieces of the puzzle are on the table. The answer is there for anyone to see. But rearranging those pieces properly is no easy task, and it is even more difficult to get dogmatists of any stripe to look at the picture in a light different from their own. That has been my purpose in writing these two Continued on page 76 52 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2003