Claim CJ001:
Modern humans have lived on earth for billions of years.
Source:
Cremo, Michael and Richard Thompson, 1993. Forbidden Archaeology: The
hidden history of the human race. Los Angeles: Bhaktivedanta.
Response:
- Cremo and Thompson supported their claim with Vedic scripture. They
claimed scientific support for it, but the science they cite is old and
discredited.
- More seriously, Cremo and Thompson were selective in what they cited.
The vast majority of evidence shows that hominids have developed more
or less gradually over the past 6 or more million years, and that
modern humans are much younger (Tattersall 1995).
Links:
Foley, Jim, 1996. NBC's "The Mysterious Origins of Man"
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mom.html
Groves, Colin, 1994. Creationism: The Hindu View. The Skeptic 14(3):
43-45, http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mom/groves.html
References:
- Tattersall, Ian, 1995. The Fossil Trail. Oxford University Press.
Further Reading:
Brass, Michael, 2002. The Antiquity of Man: Artifactual, fossil, and
gene records explored, Baltimore: Publish America.
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