A question Marc best not answer

[Jim McGinn]

Hey Marco, Whatever happened to the aquatic phase? Did you
phase it out?

[Spiznet]

Jim McGinn wrote:
> Hey Marco, Whatever happened to the aquatic phase? Did you
> phase it out?

Yes, as he is currently stating: "Aquatic Ape Theory" is an
inaccurate term: it's not about apes, nor about having been
aquatic. AAT states that our ancestors sometime after the
Homo/Pan split relied partly on aquatic resources:
- "Homo": AAT, contrary to what many PAs think, has nothing to
do with australopiths, c
- "littoral": it's about our ancestors having been shoreline
dwellers (coast/lake/riverside),
- "diaspora": Homo remains 1.8 Ma are found in places as far
as Ain Hanech (Algeria), Dmanisi (Georgia), Mojokerto (Java)
etc.: AAT simply says that these people got there along
shorelines, not over dry plains. Leading PAs such as
Ph.Tobias http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm &
Chr.Stringer now agree with a "wet" past & shoreline
dispersals http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT

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[Jim McGinn]

Jim McGinn wrote:
> Hey Marco, Whatever happened to the aquatic phase? Did you
> phase it out?

Oh, and in case you think nobody noticed. I was the first to
mention/realize that early hominids would have, often, located
themselves in the vicinity of lakes and rivers. Remember? Back
when I was pointing out that this behavior would have been the
one implication of the onset of the monsoon climate (dry
season) in the earliest years of hominid evolution you were
blathering on about snorkel noses, swimming and generally
entertaining lunacy like that of Elaine Morgan.

IOW, back when you were talking about an aquatic phase I
already had already correctly theorizes the where and how
thereof of early hominid settlement. So the fact that you now
assume the same and have not paid due respect makes you look a
bit underhanded--as if you're trying to pretend you knew it
all along.

[Spiznet]

Jim McGinn wrote:
> Jim McGinn wrote:
> > Hey Marco, Whatever happened to the aquatic phase? Did you
> > phase it out?

> Oh, and in case you think nobody noticed. I was the first to
> mention/realize that early hominids would have, often,
> located themselves in the vicinity of lakes and rivers.
> Remember? Back when I was pointing out that this behavior
> would have been the one implication of the onset of the
> monsoon climate (dry season) in the earliest years of
> hominid evolution you were blathering on about snorkel
> noses, swimming and generally entertaining lunacy like that
> of Elaine Morgan.

> IOW, back when you were talking about an aquatic phase I
> already had already correctly theorizes the where and how
> thereof of early hominid settlement. So the fact that you
> now assume the same and have not paid due respect makes you
> look a bit underhanded--as if you're trying to pretend you
> knew it all along.

Its good you are ahead of these kooks. What I don't want
Marc to answer
is: how he got Richard to act like Algis & egg on people to
talk about watery issues.

[McLark]

"spiznet" <mark@spiznet.com> wrote in message
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>
> Jim McGinn wrote:

[the usual]

>> IOW, back when you were talking about an aquatic phase I
>> already had already correctly theorizes the where and how
>> thereof of early hominid settlement. So the fact that you
>> now assume the same and have not paid due respect makes you
>> look a bit underhanded--as if you're trying to pretend you
>> knew it all along.
>
> Its good you are ahead of these kooks. What I don't want
> Marc to answer
> is: how he got Richard to act like Algis & egg on people to
> talk about watery issues.

Dickie Boy (good thing he was born a boy --now he'll always
have something to play with) has had the misfortune of living
on an island. Everwhere he turns and in every direction he
attempts to exercise his form of bipedalism, he runs into
water. He's hopelessly fixated by his environmentally-induced
myopia and, like any good bigot, is convinced that since he
can't see anything but water, there must be nothing to see but
water --for a man with a hammer, the whole world is a nail. Of
course when asked to put up or shut up, he does neither --just
like those other two doofai.

Poor Algis. At least he had the sense to recognize when he'd
been augered into the ground.

--
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
--Voltaire

[Jim McGinn]

MClark wrote:

> Poor Algis. At least he had the sense to recognize when he'd
> been augered into the ground.

Algis was confused. (Like yourself and your dimwitted cohorts
he had a very simplistic, "just-so story, understanding of
natural selection.) I think that when he came across the
inanity of your response to his posts it emboldened him into
thinking he had a valid theory. Retards like yourself should
be barred from scientific discussions because your ineptitude
encourages the whackos. You anthro dimwits tag-teamed Algis
for 3 or 4 years and all it accomplished was to make him more
and more determined. It wasn't until my last discussion with
him that he finally realized how weak his hypothesis really
was. (Google it).

Yes, Algis was augered into the ground. I know that because
I'm the one that did the augering.

[Rmacfarl]

Jim McGinn wrote:
> MClark wrote:
>
> > Poor Algis. At least he had the sense to recognize when
> > he'd been augered into the ground.
>
> Algis was confused. (Like yourself and your dimwitted
> cohorts he had a very simplistic, "just-so story,
> understanding of natural selection.) I think that when he
> came across the inanity of your response to his posts it
> emboldened him into thinking he had a valid theory. Retards
> like yourself should be barred from scientific discussions
> because your ineptitude encourages the whackos. You anthro
> dimwits tag-teamed Algis for 3 or 4 years and all it
> accomplished was to make him more and more determined. It
> wasn't until my last discussion with him that he finally
> realized how weak his hypothesis really was. (Google it).
>
> Yes, Algis was augered into the ground. I know that because
> I'm the one that did the augering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion_of_grandeur

[Spiznet]

rmacfarl wrote:
> Jim McGinn wrote:
> > MClark wrote:
> >
> > > Poor Algis. At least he had the sense to recognize when
> > > he'd been augered into the ground.
> >
> > Algis was confused. (Like yourself and your dimwitted
> > cohorts he had a very simplistic, "just-so story,
> > understanding of natural selection.) I think that when he
> > came across the inanity of your response to his posts it
> > emboldened him into thinking he had a valid theory.
> > Retards like yourself should be barred from scientific
> > discussions because your ineptitude encourages the
> > whackos. You anthro dimwits tag-teamed Algis for 3 or 4
> > years and all it accomplished was to make him more and
> > more determined. It wasn't until my last discussion with
> > him that he finally realized how weak his hypothesis
> > really was. (Google it).
> >
> > Yes, Algis was augered into the ground. I know that
> > because I'm the one that did the augering.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion_of_grandeur

Unfortunately, this definition invokes T. Kuhn...

[Jim McGinn]

spiznet wrote:
> rmacfarl wrote:
> > Jim McGinn wrote:
> > > MClark wrote:
> > >
> > > > Poor Algis. At least he had the sense to recognize
> > > > when he'd been augered into the ground.
> > >
> > > Algis was confused. (Like yourself and your dimwitted
> > > cohorts he had a very simplistic, "just-so story,
> > > understanding of natural selection.) I think that when
> > > he came across the inanity of your response to his posts
> > > it emboldened him into thinking he had a valid theory.
> > > Retards like yourself should be barred from scientific
> > > discussions because your ineptitude encourages the
> > > whackos. You anthro dimwits tag-teamed Algis for 3 or 4
> > > years and all it accomplished was to make him more and
> > > more determined. It wasn't until my last discussion with
> > > him that he finally realized how weak his hypothesis
> > > really was. (Google it).
> > >
> > > Yes, Algis was augered into the ground. I know that
> > > because I'm the one that did the augering.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion_of_grandeur
>
> Unfortunately, this definition invokes T. Kuhn...

It's hightly unlikely Ross will understand what you mean by
this.

[Jim McGinn]

MClark wrote:
> "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@yahoo.com> wrote

> Such bombast (you claiming some hand in the augering)

No, retard, I claim to have done the predominant amount of the
augering. Moreover, I'm prepared to defend this claim by way
of direct reference to posts in Google Groups.

You did little more than whine about the fact that Algis's
thinking couldn't be found in textbooks.

Science isn't a conclusion, it's a process.

[McLark]

"Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1154915438.343411.67970@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>
> MClark wrote:
>
>> Poor Algis. At least he had the sense to recognize when
>> he'd been augered into the ground.
>
> Algis was confused. (Like yourself and your dimwitted
> cohorts he had a very simplistic, "just-so story,
> understanding of natural selection.) I think that when he
> came across the inanity of your response to his posts it
> emboldened him into thinking he had a valid theory. Retards
> like yourself should be barred from scientific discussions
> because your ineptitude encourages the whackos. You anthro
> dimwits tag-teamed Algis for 3 or 4 years and all it
> accomplished was to make him more and more determined. It
> wasn't until my last discussion with him that he finally
> realized how weak his hypothesis really was. (Google it).
>
> Yes, Algis was augered into the ground. I know that because
> I'm the one that did the augering.

In case you hadn't noticed, Dimmy, I was comparing Algis with
"those other two doofai". That would be you, Dimmy (and Pauly)
and sadly (for you), Algis emerges from that comparison as the
clear intellectual winner. Note that "...he had the sense to
recognize when he'd been augered into the ground.", infers
that the other two (P and D) don't.

Such bombast (you claiming some hand in the augering) reminds
me of that scene in "The Mountain Man" where Robert Redford
stumbles on a man buried up to his neck in the sand. When
asked, the man replied that he was doing fine --"I have a fine
horse underneath me...". IOW, Dimmy, I don't think you have
the sense the good lord gave a fence post and absolutely no
idea of your own altitude.

As for "..anthro dimwits", I looked all over for any
publication by Jim McGinn and could find nothing. So do you
have a Nom d Plume or are your list of publications written in
Sanskrit and kept in a cave somewhere....?

--
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
--Voltaire

[McLark]

"Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> MClark wrote:
>> "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@yahoo.com> wrote
>
>> Such bombast (you claiming some hand in the augering)
>
>
> No, retard, I claim to have done the predominant amount of
> the augering. Moreover, I'm prepared to defend this claim by
> way of direct reference to posts in Google Groups.
>
> You did little more than whine about the fact that Algis's
> thinking couldn't be found in textbooks.
>
> Science isn't a conclusion, it's a process.

You know, Dimmy, there *are* human beings who are "mentally
retarded". They are not to be blamed for it as they
(usually) are born with the disability. For you to use your
short hand in this way as a pejorative is indicative of your
general bad manners and your abysmal grasp of common human
decency. No surprise there as anyone who reads your tripe is
quite familiar with the depths of depravity to which you
regularly sink.

Incidentally, your claims carry absolutely no weight here
because readers have seen them before and found them to be
without the slightest shred of merit. Jason ran Algis off, for
the record, and you had less than nothing to do with it.

Go ahead, post your silly little reference.

--
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
--Voltaire