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Tag Archives: creationism

Cave art: A creationist hoax

Cave art: A creationist hoax

January 28, 2013by Adam Benton 11 Comments

In 1879 Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was conducting an archaeological excavation of the entrance to Altamira Cave, Spain. He’d just returned from a French conference on prehistory and was determined to make some […]

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Archaeology, Creationism, Evolution, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Prehistory, Science

Answers in Genesis v EvoAnth #6:The conclusion

December 30, 2012by Adam Benton 14 Comments

And so we arrive at the grand conclusion of Answers in Genesis response (parts 1, 2,3 4 & 5). It follows the standard creationist formula of “finish with a pat […]

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Creationism, Evolution, Evolution of bipedalism, Human evolution, Science
The STW 431 with the muscle attachment sites labelled

Answers in Genesis v EvoAnth #5: The hip

December 29, 2012by Adam Benton 5 Comments

This is the fifth article in my series responding to Answers in Genesis critique of my post claiming that their creation museum wrongly portrays the famous Australopithecus afarensis specimen “Lucy” (AL 288-1) […]

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Anatomy, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution of bipedalism, Human evolution, Science
The statistical analysis of Lucy (AL 288) showing it clusters with gorillas and orangutans

Answers in Genesis v EvoAnth #4: The wrist

December 20, 2012by Adam Benton 15 Comments

Here were are, part 4 of my response to Answers in Genesis “rebuttal” of my post criticising their depiction of the famous Lucy specimen as a 4 legged knuckle walker […]

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Evolution, Evolution of bipedalism, Human evolution
The reconstruction of Lucy

Answers in Genesis v Evoanth #3: Lumbar lordosis

December 19, 2012by Adam Benton 6 Comments

Piltdown superman has recently promoted Answers in Genesis’ 6,000 word diatribe against my post criticising their depiction of the famous Lucy specimen. This persuaded me to get my act together […]

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Creationism, Evolution, Evolution of bipedalism, Human evolution
Wood's reconstruction. The blue line represents the flood.

Denisovans diverged from humans 4,000 years ago?

September 3, 2012by Adam Benton 11 Comments

Todd C. Wood is a geneticist who is also a genuine, dyed in the wool young earth creationist. The co-existence of two such divergant positions is perplexing, made all the […]

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Creationism, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Media, Neanderthals, Science

New Chinese hominins: A racist find – misguided mondays

August 27, 2012by Adam Benton 25 Comments

Back before I settled into this blog I would just write for half an hour on whatever I fancied then give up. Going through some of these old posts I […]

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Creationism, Evolution, Human evolution, Media, Personal, Red deer people
The reconstruction of Lucy

Lucy the knuckle walking ape? – Misguided Mondays

August 13, 2012by Adam Benton 36 Comments

Answers in Genesis have “refuted” this post. I offer a counter-refutation here Answers in Genesis runs the (in)famous Creation Museum, where they expound the Biblical account of how the earth […]

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Anatomy, Chimps, Creationism, Evolution of bipedalism, Human evolution, Primate, Science

Transitional hominins and creationists – Misguided Mondays

July 30, 2012by Adam Benton 16 Comments

Some species can be defined as “mosaic.” In other words, that they possess a combination of features from two other species. These species are particularly useful, revealing evolutionary relationships between […]

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Chimps, Creationism, Media, Primate, Science

Hominid hoaxes – Misguided Mondays

July 9, 2012by Adam Benton 7 Comments

The Truth is What Matters  is a show and associated website promoting various Christian ideas, including creationism. It’s run by a couple of people which makes it a refreshing change […]

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Creationism, Evolution, Human evolution

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Adam Benton

Adam Benton

I'm studying evolutionary anthropology at the University of Liverpool. I'm currently in my third year of an undergraduate degree, hoping to progress onto a PhD someday. I'm too interested in human evolution for my own good, so decided to write a blog on it.

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