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Aquatic Ape Debunking
Always good to read the comments! Found this nice summary of hard facts that solidly debunk the "aquatic ape" theory, which states at some point in the distant past we had an ancestor which spent most if not all of its time in the water.
Debunking Aquatic Ape Theory (AAT) people in the early 90s is what got me started down the road that eventually lead to this site. I used to rip into AAT people on the usenet group talk.origins constantly, even getting into a heated e-mail debate with a guy in Australia (you can still see part of it here, on a thread started by none other than the late Douglas Adams).
Update: Ok, I found a much better thread on my AAT stuff. In response to this:
If that is your version of history, you are welcome to it. You are the one who will end up a laughing stock . . .
I posted this:
GOODNESS ME, LOOK AT MR "PLEASE DON'T FLAME ME, IT DOESN'T SOLVE ANYTHING AND MAKES ME UPSET" GO AT ME NOW. LETS ALL TAKE A MOMENT AND BOW OUR HEADS IN FORGIVENESS OF A HYPOCRITICAL CULTURAL FART WHO CAN'T GET ENOUGH FUNDING TO GET OUT OF THE BUSH.
I believe this is now called a "fisking", but I'm not completely sure why. Boy was it fun though!
This stuff was written in 1993? Sorry I couldn't understand half of it but I did read it.
Posted by: Pat Johnson on December 4, 2002 05:29 PMYou hung around talk.origins? The premier 'bang your head against the creationist wall' site on Usenet? I admire your determination.
I preferred sites like alt.usage.english and various soc.culture.xxxx sites. Only 80% flamewars...
Posted by: Kathy K on December 4, 2002 08:38 PM[Obie-wan voice]Yes, I was once a talk.origins poster same as your father[/obie-wan voice]. Well, ok, not your father, but you get the idea :).
Actually, by the time I was posting most of the creationists had been chased off, and all anyone was talking about was AAT. Every once in awhile we'd get a clueless newbie, but they got their head handed to them so fast if you blinked you missed it.
Ah, those were the days...
Posted by: scott on December 5, 2002 10:43 AMHi. I'm the fellow who has the website mentioned in the link you provided. Nice to see my work getting around (it grew out of those old newsgroup postings). Anyone interested in the facts about the aquatic ape theory, please check it out. It's long, but you can always skip around and catch the highlights. :-)
Jim Moore
http://aquaticape.topcities.com/
Hi Jim still at it in 2002.
Any idea how our brains developed?
If you can answer this I could probably pose another.
Frank
Hi Jim still at it in 2002.
Any idea how our brains developed?
If you can answer this I could probably pose another.
Frank