Lobbing a grenade into the primate origins picture

Darwinists have been constantly asserting for 150 years that we gone come from monkeys, but even if that's true - which it isn't because there aren't any transitional fossils and nobody's ever seen a cow give birth to a cat - it begs the question "So where did monkeys come from, Dr Science?". Up until now the answer they've given has been that monkeys came from fish which decided to hop up onto the land after they somehow grew lungs without drowning, which happened somewhere at some time, we're working on that there's nothing to see here at all now, move along. I know it sounds crazy, but that's what they'd have told you, if they'd even deigned to give a mere tax-payer any answer at all instead of just evading the issue by staring at you blankly before saying something like "You really don't understand this subject at all, perhaps we should talk about some underlying concepts..." And I know this is what they do, because in my many years as a science journalist I've had to confront that sort of ideologically blinkered piffle more times than I can remember.
Well their castle is developing a severe case of cracked walls with the publishing of a New Theory on the Origin of Primates by Professor Heads at Buffalo Museum in one of their own "peer reviewed"* journals which takes issue with the existing dogma of how monkeys came to be, and exposes the prevailing materialist compfort blanket to be a heap of fail, as I believe the young people are saying nowadays:

"According to prevailing theories, primates are supposed to have originated in a geographically small area (center of origin) from where they dispersed to other regions and continents" said Heads, who also noted that widespread misrepresentation of fossil molecular clocks estimates as maximum or actual dates of origin has led to a popular theory that primates somehow crossed the globe and even rafted across oceans to reach America and Madagascar.

Excuse me while I laugh. Monkeys rafting across oceans is ridiculous, as anyone who's ever seen a monkey trying to climb into a boat will attest.

The article notes that increasing numbers of primatologists and paleontologists recognize that the fossil record cannot be used to impose strict limits on primate origins, and that some molecular clock estimates also predict divergence dates pre-dating the earliest fossils.

In other words the fossils don't tell us anything with clarity and disagree with the "molecular clock" anyway. By saying this Professor Heads is going up against some serious vested interests so expect to see some viscous attacks on his career.


* ie "ideolgically cleansed"


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