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//The forecast pointed toward Texas or Louisiana. Ernesto flopped ashore on Plantation Key. For a while it was going to arrive as a Category 1 hurricane, when it did arrive it was barely a tropical storm. It was expected to produce flooding rain, but it delivered less rain than a thunderstorm.
Day after day, Ernesto disobeyed forecasts issued by the National Hurricane Center. So . . . what happened? When it came to Ernesto, forecasters at the hurricane center -- and nearly everywhere else -- crashed into the limits of technology and scientific knowledge.
''Until the science gets better, we have to deal with some uncertainty in these forecasts,''
No genuine scientist (who was not seduced by his own desires) would posit that a million year old 'transitional' that he built up out of 2 or 3 parts, or a million year old 'transitional skull' he built up out of two or three hundred parts was anything but a model of his own imagination. And yet that is what we see as bedrock to their 'mountain of evidence' And that is the problem in the mountain of evidence in toe, every where you lift up the cover and take a look at it you see just how ephemeral it is
fossilized human skulls in the Herto Bouri area of Ethiopia. Volcanic layers immediately above and below the layer were dated to 154,000 and 160,000 years
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| Figure 2. A close-up view of the reconstruction of a Homo sapiens idaltu child's cranium (left) by Dr. Berhane Asfaw. The skull had been broken into more than 200 pieces, scattered over sands churned by cattle, goats and camels. Above, the most complete specimen, BOU-VP-16/1 was from an adult male. |
| David L. Brill / Brill Atlanta |