The newsletter Disclosure of things evolutionists don’t want you to know (Volume 18, Issue 4, January 2014 AD) has a section titled, “Evolution in the news” that reported on “DNA Stunner – New DNA analysis raises more questions about human evolution”:
[Denisovans] are the mythical race of people known only by two teeth (one of which was formerly thought to have come from a cave bear), a fingertip fragment, and marvelous DNA analysis…The bones aren’t the right age, aren’t in the right place, and aren’t the right shape…How do evolutionists explain these ‘stunning’ findings? With wild speculation!
Bruce Bower, Science News, December 4, 2013 AD, “Ancient hominid bone serves up DNA stunner” is quoted thusly (emphasize added for emphasis):
If the Sima hominids’ ancestors mated with members of another hominid species — possibly Homo erectus or an as-yet-undiscovered population —mitochondrial DNA variants could have entered the Sima DNA and later reached the Denisovans via interbreeding with the same species, Meyer speculates.
Another possibility is that Denisovan ancestors occupied a vast expanse of Asia and Europe before the Sima population evolved, says paleogeneticist Carles Lalueza-Fox of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona. Hominid fossils found in two caves near Sima de los Huesos, dating to between 1.3 million and 800,000 years ago, may represent descendants of that intercontinental population, Lalueza-Fox suggests. Sima hominids thus could have received genetic contributions from those groups that partly matched DNA separately inherited by the Denisovans far to the east.
If so, Neandertals probably originated as a small, isolated European population around 250,000 years ago, Lalueza-Fox proposes.
This is why any and all science text must be parsed when read; parsed between actual, observable, reproducible science on the one hand and interpretation of data on the other (interpretation based on bias, worldview, protection of preferred theories, schools of thought, professional rivalries, seeking and keeping of grants etc., etc., etc.).
These terms make for quaint Victorian Era Darwinian story-telling:
If…possibly…as-yet-undiscovered…could have…speculates…possibility…may…suggests…could have…if so…probably…proposes.
As the newsletter puts it, “They are grasping at more straws than a janitor in a scarecrow factory!”
National Geographic is referenced and they weave a tall tale about Denisovans, literally, here is a quote from “The Case of the Missing Ancestor DNA from a cave in Russia adds a mysterious new member to the human family” by Jamie Shreeve; “Pääbo and his colleagues came up with a scenario to explain what might have occurred” and you know the rest:
…probably…most likely…perhaps…most likely…might explain…the only evidence so far that the Denisovans even existed…a lot of questions unanswered…they left no mark…no distinctive tools…no other fossil has been identified as Denisovan.
The newsletter states:
In the end, it all comes down to money. “We need much more work.” The only way for this research to be funded is by telling an interesting enough story that someone will pay to read it. Paleontologists don’t provide a service or sell a product—they tell stories. It is their only form of income. They have to sell stories to pay the bills.
National Geographic needs stories to fill their magazine each month. They pay for stories that will sell magazines (especially if those stories advance their obvious political agenda). Paleontologists produce stories that National Geographic will publish. It’s just that simple. OK. I take that back. It isn’t simple to create a whole race of people out of one bone fragment and two teeth. It takes a lot of skill and creative oratory to create the story. Bravo to them!
It is the good old’ saying of “publish or perish.”
To read more on this issue—of interpretation of data/evidence and also story-telling, see:
Scientific Cenobites
Atheist and Darwinian Science and Story Telling
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