Re:More factual errors on the part of apologists

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:03:13 -0500

Glenn wrote:
>>I was doing some research this morning and ran into a couple of other
>>factually wrong things passed off to an unsuspecting Christian laity as fact.
>>
>>David Wilcox,
>>"After the Qafzeh people, there is no further evidence of AMH in
>>Europe or Asia until about 50,000 years ago in the Levant and in
>>Australia."~David L. Wilcox, "Adam, Where Are You? Changing
>>Paradigms in Paleoanthropology," Perspectives on Science and
>>Christian Faith , 48:2( June 1996), p. 93
>>
>>Anatomically modern man is found At Liujing, China at 68,000 years ago. But
>>he writes for a Christian journal and couldn't be wrong.
>>
>
I wrote

>Why not just write (as you do below[snipped]) "Secondly, the earliest
>modern men are dated at 120,000 years and are found in Africa at Klasies
>River Mouth Cave."
>
>Am I missing something? Perhaps a subtle difference in terminology?

Oops -- I see what I missed was the geography: Africa v. Europe and Asia.

Bill Hamilton
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