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<blockquote data-quote="MANTI5" data-source="post: 7665559" data-attributes="member: 627711">&quot;After more than a century of searching, how much fossil evidence is there of “ape-men”? Richard Leakey stated: “Those working in this field have so little evidence upon which to base their conclusions that it is necessary for them frequently to change their conclusions.”&nbsp; New Scientist commented: “Judged by the amount of evidence upon which it is based, the study of fossil man hardly deserves to be more than a sub-discipline of palaeontology or anthropology. .*.*. the collection is so tantalisingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmentary and inconclusive.” ---------- Post added at 01:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:12 AM ---------- &quot;Similarly, the book Origins admits: “As we move farther along the path of evolution towards humans the going becomes distinctly uncertain, again owing to the paucity of fossil evidence.”&nbsp; Science magazine adds: “The primary scientific evidence is a pitifully small array of bones from which to construct man’s evolutionary history. One anthropologist has compared the task to that of reconstructing the plot of War and Peace with 13 randomly selected pages.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MANTI5, post: 7665559, member: 627711"] "After more than a century of searching, how much fossil evidence is there of “ape-men”? Richard Leakey stated: “Those working in this field have so little evidence upon which to base their conclusions that it is necessary for them frequently to change their conclusions.” New Scientist commented: “Judged by the amount of evidence upon which it is based, the study of fossil man hardly deserves to be more than a sub-discipline of palaeontology or anthropology. .*.*. the collection is so tantalisingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmentary and inconclusive.” [COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR] [COLOR=Silver][SIZE=8px]---------- Post added at 01:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:12 AM ----------[/SIZE][/COLOR][SIZE=8px][/SIZE] [COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR] "Similarly, the book Origins admits: “As we move farther along the path of evolution towards humans the going becomes distinctly uncertain, again owing to the paucity of fossil evidence.” Science magazine adds: “The primary scientific evidence is a pitifully small array of bones from which to construct man’s evolutionary history. One anthropologist has compared the task to that of reconstructing the plot of War and Peace with 13 randomly selected pages.” [/QUOTE]

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