[Antoninus]

while not an osteologist, I do have some familiarity with the standards of the trade, and know that they are carefully measuring and comparing hundreds of specific and interrelated "landmark" features, not simply eyeballing them and making grand pronouncements - that latter's the Scientific Creationist's method, not the scientist's.

Perhaps. But comparing hundreds of interrelated features is still speculation when it comes do determining if two fossilized skulls were actually of the same species/genus/family/class etc. If we could genetically compare them somehow, THAT would be proof. I believe that we someday we will develop the technology to do so, thus putting a lot of this stuff to rest.

[King Prout]

no science deals in proof - evidence, falsification, and probability only.

osteology is neither rocket science nor voodoo. the techniques successfully used in forensic osteology and comparative osteology of extant organisms are identical to those used on fossils and unfossilized remains of long dead years.