[PatrickHenry]

I've never seen so many people so desperately rejecting even the idea of a pre-human species. Of course, if pre-humans existed, someone's fairy tale would be in jeopardy, so it's much more comforting to shut your eyes, plug up your ears, and insist that the whole thing's a fraud. Or that the people who found it are fools, while those refusing to even consider its existence are really the bright guys. It's fascinating to see this stuff in action.

[Junior]

It's what happens when one is afraid that one's paradigm might shift

[balrog666]

I've never seen so many people so desperately rejecting even the idea of a pre-human species. Of course, if pre-humans existed, someone's fairy tale would be in jeopardy, so it's much more comforting to shut your eyes, plug up your ears, and insist that the whole thing's a fraud. Or that the people who found it are fools, while those refusing to even consider its existence are really the bright guys. It's fascinating to see this stuff in action.

I can't believe the way they're scrambling here. Reminds me of a tribe of monkeys after spying out an approaching lion.

[AndrewC]

Of course, if pre-humans existed, someone's fairy tale would be in jeopardy,

The fairy tales that are in jeopardy are of the Darwininian kind. Another just-so story must now be contrived.

[rustbucket]

it's much more comforting to shut your eyes, plug up your ears, and insist that the whole thing's a fraud

You nailed it. You brought to mind the three famous monkeys: "See No Evil", "Hear No Evil", and "Uncle Toumai's Skull is a Fraud".

[ContentiousObjector]

It never fails to blow my mind that the most advanced society in the history of civilization can suffer from such a culture of anti-Intellectualism and blind ignorance,

Friends of mine in Asia are amazed that Americans have indoor plumbing, they can't fathom how a society that is so emotionally backwards put a man on the moon.

[carenot]

Or that the people who found it are fools, while those refusing to even consider its existence are really the bright guys. It's fascinating to see this stuff in action.

I keep remembering Immanuel Velikovsky.

Hmmm...