Let's hear all those high-school dropout, mail-order "Reverends" now tell us how all this is bunk. C'mon, enlighten us with your I.D. genius.
I would like to see the evidence on this one. There are a couple of things that do not fit with established theory. I would also like to hear what the other local (SE Asia) experts think. Some weird stuff going on down there, but you gotta have evidence to get anywhere.
(And I'm one of those "evo-nazis" you hear referred to by some posters!)
From the article: "Rex Gilroy is aware that his claims will not be acceptable to the hard-core 'Out of Africa' school of anthropologists, but he believes that this attitude will be changed as further pre-Aboriginal fossil finds come to light in this most ancient of continents."
I believe the Bega endocast represents a race of ancestral hominids, which in time evolved into a proto-Homo erectus race from which Homo erectus proper evolved, here in Australia before he did anywhere else, to in turn evolve into anatomically modern humans, probably by around 300,000 years ago (as suggested by 'late' Homo erectus and 'archaic' Homo sapien mineralised skull-types from a central western NSW site in his possession), well before Homo sapiens 'first' appeared in Africa by around 150,000 years ago according to current evidence.
Lester believes the damn thing was a monkey. But you and Gilroy go ahead and keep believing the other, montag813. At least Gilroy characterizes his belief as such.
Since when does evolutionary theory hold that a single species can arise in several times and places, that an identical set of random mutations will occur twice? You don't have to be a creationist or an I.D. proponent to have issues with this guy.
Mrs VS
"Let's hear all those high-school dropout, mail-order "Reverends" now tell us how all this is bunk."
Hey! I resent that! I'm a Reverend of the Universal Life Church and so's my wife. It cost me $25 and I got a certificate suitable for framing.