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Homo sapiens, the genus and species classification for humans, means literally "wise man"—a designation that at times appears almost comical in light of evolutionists' contentious claims that humans descended from ape-like ancestors. The pictures of our putative predecessors adorn the walls of science classrooms all over the world. Most of us, in fact, are familiar with the charts that show an ape at one end, a human at the other, and a whole host of ape-like intermediates in between. In an effort to bolster their theory of common descent for all living creatures, evolutionists have worked feverishly to demonstrate a convincing continuity between humans and our alleged ape-like ancestors. And, admittedly, at times they have done their job so well that the ape-like intermediates they depict attain such fame that children immediately recognize their names and can easily recite their traits. For instance, while many individuals may not recognize the name Australopithecus afarensis, they very likely have heard of "Lucy" (the creature's popular name). Pictures of her fossilized remains have been paraded before us as an example of what is arguably the most famous, and the most widely known, of all the so-called "missing links."
Using a mere handful of bone fragments, a piece of a skull, or a few teeth, evolutionary artists portray what they want us to believe these hairy, ape-like creatures must have looked like. Frequently, we see them carrying primitive clubs, living in caves, or huddled around a fire with others of their kind. And so, from a very young age, children deposit deep within the recesses of their minds the images of these creatures crawling down out of the trees in Africa, learning to walk uprightly, and eventually evolving larger brains, advanced intelligence, and language. While the editors of Time and Newsweek devote entire covers to our various alleged ancestors, the reconstructed images they portray are more fiction than fact—as we will document in this article, and as the evolutionists themselves have been willing to admit publicly. Paleontologist Douglas Palmer, for example, stated in the March 16, 2002 issue of New Scientist: "The trouble is we probably know more about the evolution of extinct trilobites than we do about human evolution" (173[2334]:50). We would like to examine the actual evidence of human origins as found within the fossil record, and then offer an updated, "corrected" version of that evidence—one that presents what renowned American news commentator Paul Harvey might well call "the rest of the story."
Evolutionists today, of course, do not contend that man descended from the apes. Instead, they contend that both men and apes descended from a common ancestor. We, however, agree with the late evolutionary paleontologist of Harvard University, George Gaylord Simpson, who summed up such an idea quite succinctly when he wrote:
On this subject, by the way, there has been way too much pussyfooting. Apologists emphasize that man cannot be the descendant of any living ape—a statement that is obvious to the verge of imbecility—and go on to state or imply that man is not really descended from an ape or monkey at all, but from an earlier common ancestor. In fact, that earlier ancestor would certainly be called an ape or monkey in popular speech by anyone who saw it. Since the terms ape and monkey are defined by popular usage, man's ancestors were apes or monkeys (or successively both). It is pusillanimous [cowardly—BH/BT/EL] if not dishonest for an informed investigator to say otherwise (1964, p. 12, emp. in orig.).
Ironically, some evolutionists even have gone so far as to suggest—albeit incorrectly—that Charles Darwin himself never claimed that man evolved from the apes. Yet he most certainly did—in The Descent of Man (1870, pp. 519-520).
Since the time of Darwin, evolutionists have struggled to invent plausible theories about why those ancient apes decided to leave the confines of the treetops in favor of bipedal locomotion on the plains. M.P. Schutzenberger illustrated the problem well when he mentioned a number of biological systems that distinguish humans from primates.
Bipedalism, with the concomitant modification of the pelvis, and, without a doubt, the cerebellum; a much more dexterous hand, with fingerprints conferring an especially fine tactile sense; the modifications of the pharynx which permits phonation; the modification of the central nervous system, notably at the level of the temporal lobes, permitting the specific recognition of speech. From the point of view of embryogenesis, these anatomical systems are completely different from one another. Each modification constitutes a gift, a bequest from a primate family to its descendants. It is astonishing that these gifts should have developed simultaneously (1996, pp. 17[2]:15, emp. added).
It is indeed "astonishing" that these apes (or, to be more politically correct, "ape-like creatures") could have experienced the "simultaneous emergence of a number of biological systems" that brought them from apedom to humanity. It is equally "astonishing" to see how evolutionists have interpreted the evidence of the fossil record that they insist establishes such an event as having occurred. We invite you to join us on this fascinating journey while we investigate the "record of the rocks" as it applies to human evolution.
The public generally has no idea just how scarce, and how fragmentary (literally!), the "evidence" for human evolution actually is. Harvard professor Richard Lewontin lamented this very fact when he stated:
When we consider the remote past, before the origin of the actual species Homo sapiens, we are faced with a fragmentary and disconnected fossil record. Despite the excited and optimistic claims that have been made by some paleontologists, no fossil hominid species can be established as our direct ancestor.... (1995, p. 163, emp. added).
The evolutionary tree that has been presented to demonstrate the origin of humans has two main branches (and assorted twigs) within the primate family (hominidae). One consists of Australopithecus, while the other is composed of the genus Homo. The categories to which various fossils have been assigned may be more telling than we first thought, for evidence now exists which demonstrates that all fossils in the Australopithecus group share a common trait—one buried deep within the ear—while all those in the genus Homo share a completely different physiology, likewise related to the ear. Richard Leakey commented:
At a meeting of anthropologists in April 1994, Fred Spoor, of the University of Liverpool, described the semicircular canals in humans and apes. The two vertical canals are significantly enlarged in humans compared with those in apes, a difference Spoor interprets as an adaptation to the extra demands of upright balance in a bipedal species. What of early human species? Spoor's observations are truly startling. In all species of the genus Homo, the inner ear structure is indistinguishable from that of modern humans. Similarly, in all species of Australopithecus, the semicircular canals look like those of apes... (1994, pp. 34-36).
Thus it appears that, as creationists have contended, all fossils can be placed into one of two groups: apes or humans. Furthermore, it is practically impossible to determine which "family tree" one should accept. At an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science some years ago, anthropologists from all over the world descended on New York City to view hominid fossils exhibited by the American Museum of Natural History. Reporting on this exhibit, Science News had this to say:
One sometimes wonders if orangutans, chimps and gorillas ever sit around the tree, contemplating which is the closest relative of man. (And would they want to be?) Maybe they even chuckle at human scientists' machinations as they race to draw the definitive map of evolution on earth. If placed on top of one another, all these competing versions of our evolutionary highways would make the Los Angeles freeway system look like County Road 41 in Elkhart, Indiana (see "Whose Ape Is It, Anyway?," 1984, 125:361, parenthetical comment in orig.).
How, in light of such admissions, can evolutionary scientists possibly defend the idea of ape/human evolution as a "scientifically proven fact"?
The alleged evolution of man based on the "evidence" from the fossil record
While it is impossible to present any scenario of human evolution upon which even the evolutionists themselves would agree, the schematic on the right (gleaned from the latest scientific literature) represents the most up-to-date assessment available on the subject. [NOTE: We do not accept the evolution-based dates attached to the finds, but have left them intact for reference purposes.]
Of all the branches found on that infamous "evolutionary tree of life," the one leading to man should be the best documented. After all, as the most recent evolutionary arrival, pre-human fossils supposedly would have been exposed to natural decay processes for the shortest length of time, and thus should be better preserved and easier to find than any others. But what does the "record of the rocks" reveal about human evolution? Here—starting with our oldest alleged ancestor—is that message.
Aegyptopithecus zeuxis has been called by Richard Leakey "the first ape to emerge from the Old World's monkey stock" (1978, p. 52), and is considered the first creature on the long road to man. A 12-year -old, however, could look at this fossil and identify it as an ape. No controversy here; the animal is admittedly an ape.
Dryopithecus africanus (once again, according to Richard Leakey) is considered to be "the stock from which all modern apes evolved" (1978, p. 56). And, as evolutionists David Pilbeam and Elwyn Simons have pointed out, Dryopithecus already was "too committed to ape-dom" to be the progenitor of man (1971, 173:23). No controversy here; the animal is admittedly an ape.
What about Ramapithecus? In the past, numerous anthropologists considered this creature to be the first true hominid. But that no longer is the case. Thanks to additional work by Pilbeam, we now realize that Ramapithecus was not a hominid at all, but merely another ape (1982, 295:232). In fact, as Duane Gish noted: "He is no longer considered to have been a creature in the line leading to man" (1985, p. 140). No controversy here; the animal is admittedly an ape.
What, then, shall we say of these three "ancestors" that supposedly form the taproot of man's family tree? We simply will say what the evolutionists themselves have admitted: all three were nothing but apes. Period.
The 13 fossil fragments that form Orrorin tugenensis (broken femurs, several teeth, and bits of lower jaw) were found in the Tugen Hills of Kenya in the fall of 2000 by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford of France, and have been controversial ever since. If Orrorin were considered to be a human ancestor, it would predate other candidates by around 2 million years. Senut and Pickford (in an even more drastic scenario) have suggested that all the australopithecines—even those considered to be our direct ancestors—should be relegated to a dead-end side branch in favor of Orrorin. Yet paleontologist David Begun of the University of Toronto has admitted that scientists have been unable to determine whether Orrorin was, in fact, "on the line to humans, on the line to chimps, a common ancestor to both, or just an extinct side branch" (2001). Lots of controversy here—but no credible evidence of a creature on its way to becoming human.
In 1994, evolutionist Tim White and his coworkers described a new species known as Australopithecus ramidus, dated at 4.4 million years (White, et al., 371:306-312). The August 23, 1999 issue of Time magazine contained a feature story, "Up from the Apes," about the creature (Lemonick and Dorfman, 1999, 154[8]:51-58). Morphologically speaking, this was the earliest, most ape-like australopithecine to date, and seemed to be a good candidate for the most distant common ancestor of the hominids. A year later, however, White completely reclassified the creature as Ardipithecus ramidus (1995, 375:88). And one year after that, Donald Johanson (the discoverer of "Lucy"—see next page) admitted in National Geographic that A. ramidus had "many chimp-like features" and that "its position on the human family tree is in question" (1996, 189[3]:117). A year later, Meave Leakey and colleagues described the 3.8-4.2 million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis, which bears striking similarities to both Ardipithecus (a chimp?) and Pan (the actual genus of the chimpanzees).
The bright yellow and white wording on the front cover of the July 23, 2001 issue of Time announced somewhat authoritatively, "How Apes Became Human," and claimed that a new hominid discovery of a creature known as Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba (kadabba—from the Afar language—means "basal family ancestor") tells "scientists about how our oldest ancestors stood on two legs and made an evolutionary leap." Yet those empty cover-story words become almost secondary as readers find themselves captivated by the "ape-man" drawing that blankets the entire cover. Sadly, many readers may never make it to page 57, where staff writers Michael Lemonick and Andrea Dorfman admit that the discoverers of the fossils under discussion, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his colleagues, "haven't collected enough bones yet to reconstruct with great precision what kadabba looked like." That seemingly insignificant fact, however, did not prevent the magazine's editors from putting an intimidating, full-color "reconstruction" of this newest fossil find on the cover—an image, if we may kindly say so, that becomes somewhat less than forthright in light of the actual facts of the matter. A thorough investigation of this "scientific discovery" reveals that the creature was "reconstructed" from only a few bone fragments and a few teeth—of which, the only one that might provide the artist with any structural information of the head was a piece of the right mandible.
In their article, "One Giant Step for Mankind," Lemonick and Dorfman invited readers to meet their "newfound ancestor, a chimplike forest creature that stood up and walked 5.8 million years ago" (2001, 158[3]:54). According to evolutionists, Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba lived between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago, which beats the previous record holder by almost a million-and-a-half years and, according to evolutionists' estimates, places A. kadabba "very close to the time when humans and chimps first went their separate ways" (158[3]:56). Lemonick and Dorfman went on to comment:
...[N]o one has yet been able to say precisely when that first evolutionary step on the road to humanity happened, nor what might have triggered it. But a discovery reported last week [July 12, 2001—BH/BT/EL] in the journal Nature has brought paleontologists tantalizingly close to answering both these questions (158[3]:56; for the original Nature article, see Haile-Selassie, 2001).
That's a pretty bold statement, considering the fact that researchers had only the following bone fragments from which to glean all of this information: a fragment of the right mandible, one intermediate hand phalanx, the left humerus and ulna, a distal humerus, a proximal hand phalanx fragment, a left clavicle fragment, a proximal foot phalanx, and a few teeth. In addition, these bones were not laid out neatly in a typical skeletal arrangement, all grouped together and just waiting for researchers to dig them up. No indeed. These few bones took researchers 5 years to collect and came from 5 different locations! And so, from a fossilized toe, a piece of jawbone, a finger, arm bones, a clavicle, and a few teeth we have this incredible "ape-man" to prove how apes became human.
Prominently displayed in the center of page 59 of the Time article is a photograph of a toe bone, about which Lemonick and Dorfman wrote: "This toe bone proves the creature walked on two legs." Amazing, is it not, what one can discern from a single toe bone? The human foot contains 26 individual bones (see Netter, 1994, p. 492), yet evolutionary scientists claim that they can distinguish walking characteristics from an examination of just one? That bold caption also fails to inform the reader that this toe bone was found in 1999, is "chronologically younger" than the other bone fragments, and was found in a separate location from the rest of the fossils. In fact, the bone fragments that make up this new specimen came from five localities of the Middle Awash in Ethiopia: Saitune Dora, Alaya, Asa Koma, Digiba Dora, and Amba East (Haile-Selassie, 2001, 412:181).
Lemonick and Dorfman admitted: "Exactly how this hominid walked is still something of a mystery, though with a different skeletal structure, its gait would have been unlike ours" (158:57). But that did not stop the authors from speculating that "kadabba almost certainly walked upright much of the time" and that "many of its behaviors undoubtedly resembled those of chimpanzees today" (158:57). Interesting speculation—especially in view of the fact that the ages of the fossilized bone fragments composing kadabba vary by hundreds of thousands of years according to the evolutionists' own dating schemes. What was it that convinced evolutionists that A. kadabba walked uprightly and was on the road to becoming man? A single toe bone!
In the March 22, 2001 issue of Nature, a completely new hominid genus from eastern Africa, Kenyanthropus platyops, was first described (Leakey, et al., 2001). Using the new specimen to rework humanity's pedigree, paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey (wife of famed paleontologist Richard Leakey) and her colleagues at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi argued that the small-brained creature was so unusual, it belongs not merely to a new species, but to an entirely new genus! This new find now is nestled firmly in the roots of the human family tree—at a time when scientists believed that only one ancestral species existed, leaving it unclear just which (if either!) was the direct forebear of modern humankind.
The authors named the creature Kenyanthropus platyops, which means flat-faced man of Kenya, "in recognition of Kenya's contribution to the understanding of human evolution through the many specimens recovered from its fossil sites" (410:433). However, an exhaustive study of the Nature article reveals a total of 36 cranio-dental fossils collected from 4 different locations over a period of 17 years, of which only 6 contain bone fragments. Only two of these specimens, the skull and a partial upper jaw, are sufficiently intact to be assigned to this new taxon. The authors described their new finds as "a well-preserved temporal bone, two partial maxillae, isolated teeth, and most importantly a largely complete, although distorted, cranium" (410:433). Distorted indeed! Even an untrained eye can look at the figures provided in the article and see the extensive damage to this newly found fossil. The flat face of platyops adds another wrinkle in the evolutionary timeline—a wrinkle that is no small problem because creatures younger than K. platyops (and therefore closer to Homo sapiens) have much more pronounced, ape-like facial features. K. platyops was dated at 3.5 million years, and yet has a much flatter face than any other hominid that old. Thus, the evolutionary scenario seems to be moving in the wrong direction!
Australopithecus afarensis was discovered in November 1974 by Donald Johanson at Hadar, Ethiopia. Dr. Johanson believes that this creature (known popularly as "Lucy") is the immediate ancestor of man (see Johanson and Edey, 1981). Certain evolutionists strongly disagree. Lord Solly Zuckerman, the famous British anatomist, published his views in his book, Beyond the Ivory Tower. He studied the australopithecines for more than 15 years, and concluded that if man descended from an apelike ancestor, he did so without leaving a single trace in the fossil record (1970, p. 64). Some might complain, "But Zuckerman's work was carried out before Lucy was even discovered." True, but that misses the point. Dr. Zuckerman's research—which established conclusively that the australopithecines were nothing but knuckle-walking apes—was performed on fossils that were younger (i.e., closer to man!) than Lucy.
Moreover, other evidence has come to light which suggests that Lucy is little more than a chimpanzee. Johanson and his coworkers admitted in an article in the March 31, 1994 issue of Nature that Lucy possessed chimp-proportioned arm bones (see Kimbel, et al., 1994) and that her alleged descendants (e.g., A. africanus and H. habilis) had ape-like limb proportions as well—which is a clear indication that she did not evolve into something "more human." In the September 9, 1994 issue of Science, Randall Susman reported that the chimp-like thumbs in A. afarensis were far better suited to tree climbing than tool making (Susman, 1994). Lucy also possessed a nonhuman gait, based on a ratio of leg size to foot size (see Oliwenstein, 1995, 16[1]:42). One researcher even went as far as to suggest that A. afarensis was little more than a failed experiment in ape bipedalism, and as such should be consigned to a side branch of the human evolutionary tree (as reported by Shreeve, 1996, 272:654). To add insult to injury, the March 29, 2000 San Diego Union Tribune reported:
A chance discovery made by looking at a cast of the bones of "Lucy," the most famous fossil of Australopithecus afarensis, shows her wrist is stiff, like a chimpanzee's, Brian Richmond and David Strait of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., reported. This suggests that her ancestors walked on their knuckles (Fox, 2000).
Evolutionist Jeremy Cherfas noted: "Lucy, alias Australopithecus afarensis, had a skull very like a chimpanzee's, and a brain to match" (1983, 93:172). Adrienne Zihlman observed: "Lucy's fossil remains match up remarkably well with the bones of a pygmy chimp" (1984, 104:39). Charles Oxnard, while at the University of Chicago, reported his multivariate computer analysis, documenting that the australopithecines were nothing but knuckle-walking apes (1975, 285:389-395). Finally, in the March 1996 National Geographic, Donald Johanson himself admitted: "Lucy has recently been dethroned" (189[3]:117).
Then, in the April 1979 issue of National Geographic, Mary Leakey reported finding fossil footprint trails at Laetoli, Tanzania. The strata above the footprints were dated at 3.6 million years, while the strata below them were dated at 3.8. As Lubenow noted: "These footprint trails rank as one of the great fossil discoveries of the twentieth century" (1992, p. 173). Why is this the case? Not only did Dr. Leakey discover three distinct trails containing sixty-nine prints, but she also found footprints that depicted one individual actually walking in the steps of another!—something that only humans have the intelligence (or inclination) to do. Thus, Dr. Leakey was forced to admit that the footprints were "remarkably similar to those of modern man" (1979, 155:446).
Most evolutionists, however, have ascribed the footprints to A. afarensis. The specialist who carried out the most extensive study to date of the Laetoli footprints (at the invitation of Mary Leakey herself) is Russell Tuttle of the University of Chicago. He noted in his research reports that the individuals who made the tracks were barefoot and probably walked habitually unshod. As part of his investigation, he observed 70 Machiguenga Indians in the rugged mountains of Peru—people who habitually walk unshod. After analyzing the Indians' footprints and examining the available Laetoli fossilized toe bones, Tuttle concluded that the ape-like feet of A. afarensis simply could not have made the Laetoli tracks (see Bower, 1989, 135:251). In fact, in an article on the Laetoli footprints in the March 1990 issue of Natural History, Dr. Tuttle wrote: "In discernible features, the Laetoli G prints are indistinguishable from those of habitually barefoot Homo sapiens" (p. 64). He then went on to admit: "If the G footprints were not known to be so old, we would readily conclude that they were made by a member of our genus, Homo" (p. 64, emp. added).
Interestingly, Mary Leakey originally labeled the Laetoli footprints as "Homo indeterminate," indicating that she was willing to place them in the genus of man, but was unable to decide upon a species designation. It is obvious, of course, why she was unwilling to call them what they clearly are—Homo sapiens. Since the tracks are dated as being older than Lucy (3.6-3.8 million years), and if Lucy is supposed to have given rise to humans, how could humans have existed more than 500,000 years prior to Lucy in order to make such footprints? [See Lubenow, 1992, pp. 45-58 for a more detailed refutation of Lucy, and pp. 173-176 for a discussion of the Laetoli footprints.]
But what of Homo habilis? J.T. Robinson and David Pilbeam have long argued that H. habilis is the same as A. africanus. Louis Leakey (Richard's father) went so far as to state: "I submit that morphologically it is almost impossible to regard Homo habilis as representing a stage between Australopithecus africanus and Homo erectus" (1966, 209:1280-1281). Dr. Leakey later reported the contemporaneous existence of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and H. erectus fossils at Olduvai Gorge (see M.D. Leakey, 1971, 3:272). Even more startling was Mary Leakey's discovery of the remains of a circular stone hut at the bottom of Bed I at Olduvai Gorge—beneath fossils of H. habilis! Evolutionists have long attributed the deliberate manufacture of shelter only to Homo sapiens, yet Dr. Leakey discovered the australopithecines and H. habilis together, along with manufactured housing. As Duane Gish asked:
If Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus existed contemporaneously, how could one have been ancestral to another? And how could any of these creatures be ancestral to Man, when Man's artifacts are found at a lower stratigraphic level, directly underneath, and thus earlier in time to these supposed ancestors of Man? (1995, p. 271).
Good question! In his book, Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!, Gish remarked concerning Homo habilis:
No paleoanthropologist has succeeded in sorting out all the creatures that are put into the taxon Homo habilis by some and taken out by others. Some insist that H. habilis is a bona fide taxon, including creatures intermediate between the australopithecines, either afarensis or africanus, and Homo erectus. Others argue just as strenuously that those creatures classified as H. habilis are no more than variants of the australopithecines (1995, p. 265).
In fact, evolutionist Ian Tattersall wrote under the title of "The Many Faces of Homo habilis" in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology: "...[I]t is increasingly clear that Homo habilis has become a wastebasket taxon, little more than a convenient recipient for a motley assortment of hominid fossils from the latest Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene" (1[1]:34-36, emp. added). In speaking of H. habilis, geologist Trevor Major summarized the situation as follows:
In fact, the whole issue of its place among Homo is highly contentious, and the species has become a dumping ground for strange and out-of-place fossils. Some paleontologists have tried to impose some order by reassigning australopithecine-like specimens to Homo rudolfensis, and the most modern-looking specimens to "early African erectus" or Homo ergaster (to which some would assign the Turkana boy). Apart from a small difference in brain size between australopithecines (less than 550 ml) and habilines (around 500-650 ml), there are no other compelling reasons to divide them between two genera (1996, 16:76, emp. added, parenthetical items in orig.).
And what about Homo erectus? Until March 2002, most evolutionary anthropologists and paleontologists believed that two different creatures belonged in the H. erectus niche: Homo ergaster and Homo erectus. H. ergaster was believed to have emerged in Africa and then spread to Europe. H. erectus was believed to have existed mainly in Asia. But an article in the March 21, 2002 issue of Nature has challenged the traditional thinking about these two species. Writing under the title, "Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia," Berhane Asfaw (of the Rift Valley Research Service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and his coauthors discussed their discovery of a partial skull (referred to as a calvaria), which they labeled as H. erectus. The skull, discovered on December 27, 1997 in the Afar Rift of Ethiopia known as the Middle Awash, in a sedimentary section of the Bouri formation known as the Dakanihylo ("Daka"), has been dated at approximately 1 million years old (Asfaw, et al., 2002). The significance of what is now being called the Daka skull in the evolutionary debate is this:
The skull is almost identical to Homo erectus fossils found in Asia.... It is so similar, the team believes that it cannot possibly be that of another species. The Daka specimen suggests that Homo erectus was not limited to Asia, separated from its contemporary, Homo ergaster. Homo erectus instead was a robust, far-flung species that lived in Asia, Africa, and Europe (McKee, 2002).
Tim White, paleoanthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley and one of the coauthors of the Nature paper, put it this way:
This fossil is a crucial piece of evidence showing that the splitting of Homo erectus into two species is not justified.... What we are saying in this paper is that the anthropological splitting common today is giving the wrong impression about the biology of these early human ancestors. The different names indicate an apparent diversity that is not real. Homo erectus is a biologically successful organism, not a whole series of different human ancestors, all but one of which went extinct" (as quoted in "Ethiopian Fossil Skull...," 2002, emp. added).
Asfaw, et al., wrote:
To recognize the basal fossils representing this apparently evolving lineage with the separate species name "H. ergaster" is therefore doubtfully necessary or useful. At most, the basal members of the H. erectus lineage should be recognized taxonomically as a chrono-subspecies (H. erectus ergaster) [2002, 416:318-319, parenthetical item in orig.].
The graduate student who actually found the skull (and who is a coauthor of the Nature paper), Henry Gilbert, probably put it best when he said: "One of the biggest impacts this calvaria will have on the field is in making Homo erectus look more like a single species again" (as quoted in "Ethiopian Fossil Skull," 2002).
Now that evolutionists have wiped out one-half of the Homo erectus niche by eliminating Homo ergaster, what shall we say about the single remaining member of the H. erectus category? Examine a copy of the November 1985 issue of National Geographic and see if you can detect any differences between the drawings of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens (Weaver, 168:576-577). The fact is, there are no recognizable differences. Almost forty years ago, Ernst Mayr, the famed evolutionary taxonomist of Harvard, remarked: "The Homo erectus stage is characterized by a body skeleton which, so far as we know, does not differ from that of modern man in any essential point" (1965, p. 632). His statement is as true today as when he first made it. Furthermore, the skull of H. erectus shared many features with the Neanderthals, yet with flatter brow ridges and a less prominent mid-facial region. Some of the H. erectus skeletons were short and stocky (like the Neanderthals), but one specimen—a nine- to eleven-year-old boy from West Turkana, Kenya—was quite tall and slender (Andrews and Stringer, 1993, p. 242). Cranial volume varied from 850 to over 1100 milliliters (ml) for H. erectus, and 1250 to over 1740 ml for Neanderthals. The average for modern humans is 1350 ml, but we exhibit a broad range of 700 to 2200 ml (Lubenow, 1992, p. 138).
In general, such things as skeletal proportions, the angularity of the face, and the shape of the brain case vary considerably among human fossils. Yet such differences—which are every bit as dramatic—occur just as frequently among modern humans. A Watusi today could not fail to miss a Mbuti pygmy who strolled into his village, and an Inuit certainly would stand out at a gathering of Australian aborigines. Despite obvious facial features, both H. erectus and H. sapiens neanderthalensis appear to fit within a distinct human kind. Although some specimens do exhibit a mixture of traits, there is no clear lineage from, say, H. erectus to H. sapiens. In fact, the evidence of the fossil record suggests that the two not only were contemporaries, but also in some cases even neighbors (Stringer and Gamble, 1993, p. 137). Remarkable confirmation of that very scenario was presented in two different articles in the December 13, 1996 issue of Science (see Gibbons, 1996; Swisher, et al., 1996). Creationist Marvin Lubenow, in his classic text on the alleged fossil evidence for human evolution, Bones of Contention, summarized the imaginary H. erectus to H. habilis to H. sapiens lineage as follows:
...Homo erectus individuals have lived side by side with other categories of humans for the past two million years (according to evolutionist chronology). This fact eliminates the possibility that Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens. ...On the far end of the Homo erectus time continuum, Homo erectus is contemporary with Homo habilis for 500,000 years. In fact, Homo erectus overlaps the entire Homo habilis population.... Thus, the almost universally accepted view that Homo habilis evolved into Homo erectus becomes impossible.... Homo habilis could not be the evolutionary ancestor of Homo erectus because the two groups lived at the same time as contemporaries....
Although the most recent date usually given for the disappearance of Homo erectus is about 300,000 y.a. [years ago—BH/BT/EL], at least 106 fossil individuals having Homo erectus morphology are dated by evolutionists themselves as being more recent than 300,000 y.a. Of those 106 fossils individuals, at least sixty-two are dated more recently than 12,000 y.a. This incontrovertible fact of the fossil record effectively falsifies the concept that Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens and that Homo erectus is our evolutionary ancestor. In reality, it falsifies the entire concept of human evolution (1992, pp. 120,127,129, emp. and parenthetical item in orig.).
Lubenow suggests that all these forms should be included within a highly variable, created human kind (pp. 120-143). The fossil evidence for evolution (human or otherwise) simply is not there. Apes always have been apes, and humans always have been humans.
Why is there so much confusion regarding human origins, and what does the fossil record actually show? We think Jeremy Rifkin summed it up accurately.
What the "record" shows is nearly a century of fudging and finagling by scientists attempting to force various fossil morsels and fragments to conform to Darwin's notions, all to no avail. Today the millions of fossils stand as very visible, ever-present reminders of the paltriness of the arguments and the overall shabbiness of the theory that marches under the banner of evolution (1983, p. 125).
More than 6,000 hominid fossils now exist. Most such fossils can be placed into one of two groups: apes or humans. A few fossils do have odd characteristics or show abnormal bone structure. But does that mean humans evolved? No. It simply means that we have variations in bone structure—variations you can see all around you. Some heads are large; others are small. Some jawbones look angled; some look square. Some noses are pointed; some are flat. Does that indicate we still are "evolving"? Or does it mean that there are occasional differences in humans?
Remember this simple exercise the next time you see a picture of one of those ape-like creatures displayed prominently across the front cover of a reputable news magazine. Look at a skeleton (any one will do) and try to draw the person that used to exist with that bony framework. What color was the hair? Was it curly, or straight? Was the person a male or a female? Did he or she have chubby cheeks, or thin? These are difficult (if not impossible!) questions to answer when we are given only a few bones with which to work. The reconstructions you see as the end-product of an artist's handiwork are not based merely on the fossil evidence, but also on what evolutionists believe these creatures "should" have looked like.
Additional hominid finds are under investigation as we complete this article, several of which have not even been classified taxonomically or made known to the public. You are sure to hear about them in the months ahead. Such fossil finds, however, never will diminish the fact that man always has been man; he did not "evolve" over millions of years. Rather, God, the Giver of life, created mankind on the sixth day of creation, just as the Bible states (Genesis 1:26-27).
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We asked Orioles fans who stayed up for the 18-inning win over Seattle to share their experiences of watching the marathon game. Here are a selection of responses:
For a Baltimorean living here in the Czech Republic, the game started at 4:00 AM. So I got up in the middle of the night (as I have for the past 3 months) and watched until the very last minute that I needed to leave for the office – this was at 9:15 AM, with 2 outs in the bottom of the 16th. I arrived at the office (a 5-minute walk), sat through a brief meeting, ran to my computer and switched on mlb.com to see that JJ had just singled to set up the first-and-third. I watched the rest of the game with my door shut, trying not to bother my colleagues by cheering too loud …
Joseph Pennington
Deputy Chief of Mission
U.S. embassy, Prague
I'm a Baltimorean living in Beijing, China, and I follow most of the games on ESPN.com Gamecast. We're on 12-hour time difference here right now, so this game was nice because it occupied all my down time at work, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. or so. Sadly I wasn't wearing the free giveaway, Chinese characters Wei-Yin Chen T-shirt that my mom shipped to me here.
I've been an O's fan my whole life and I've been waiting 15 years for this playoff run and now I'm not in the country to appreciate it! I was just back in town visiting and got to go to a game and a half. Sadly the extra inning win that gave us the sweep against Tampa Bay I had to leave for the airport to come back.
Andrew Gorman, DVM
I am a very tired but very happy O's fan today. Had to wake up at 7:30 but only getting 3 hours of sleep was completely worth it. I haven't seen a winning baseball team in Baltimore since I was 10 years old and there's no way I could miss a chance to see some Oriole magic. Every time I wanted to go to sleep I could feel the magic was coming. When we finally got the winning hit courtesy of Mr. Clutch Double T (Taylor Teagarden) my roommate and I yelled so loud we woke up our other roomie. Haha.
I am sorry for those fans who couldn't stay up ( and understandably so) but that was worth every minute! Go O's!!!!!
Ricardo Bittner
My eyes are bleary today. Thank God we won. I know what's at stake. I saw the seagulls try to take over Safeco Field and what they did to Tommy Hunter. Maybe it's an omen. We never give up. Go O's!
Gil Griggs
You don't ever leave an extra inning game ... not this year for sure.
Marty Conway
I am a United Airlines pilot. After flying an all-night flight from Washington-Dulles to Geneva, Switzerland, and checking into my hotel room, I checked in to see how the Orioles had fared in Seattle. I was surprised to see that it was still ongoing ... 2-2 in the 16th inning. I listened to the remainder of the game on my iPad and was glad to see the O's pull it out. Let's go O's.
Dan Koerschner
I stayed up to watch all 18 innings of the O's vs. Seattle. After Chris Davis singled in two runs to tie it and the game ended up in extra innings, there was no doubt in my mind the Orioles would win. Each inning I said I would only stay up for one more, but after investing so much time, it made no sense to me to call it quits. I was up for work on time, but I have a 20 oz. coffee on my desk.
Dominick Bellia
Waiting 15 Disappointing Years
I fell asleep on my sofa 10-ish (EST) and woke up shortly after 12 to see the O's were down 2-0 bottom of 8. I decided to stay up to see what was in store for top of 9 and after the O's tied it I was "all in" for the rest of the game. I followed the game on my IPod Touch using the ESPN ScoreCenter app, Twitter, and trading texts with my brother in Nashville, TN, for the "2nd 9 innings." I don't think I woke up my family in the 18th, but I haven't asked them yet either. I fell asleep shortly after JJ closed it out around 4 a.m. Up at 7 a.m. and at work by 8 a.m. Coffee was poured by 8:05. No regrets … glad they won … yet another awesome memory of the Orioles in 2012.
Brad Chelton
Columbus, OH
I stayed up to watch the game knowing that I had to be up at 6:30 to volunteer at a local Baltimore school. While I did switch from TV to radio around 3:30, I was not about to miss the outcome of this game! Let's go O's!
Catherine Brown
Stayed up. Did not watch postgame. Had a meeting at 8:30 this morning.
Good times though. I'm 53, feels like the old all-nighter in days of youth.
Michael Williams
Harrisburg, PA
I've been a LOYAL AND COMMITTED O's fan since 2nd grade. I'm 31 now and have never wavered. I live on the West Coast now and sat my job late into the night to watch my boys kill it in the 18th (at a game I was supposed to be at) against the gang from Seattle!!!
This has been the most fulfilling year of my entire natural life!!!
Joshua A. Queen
Bend, OR
Haven't stayed up that late since I was at the hospital watching my nine-year-old granddaughter while her mom was giving birth to a new little sister. That was better, but I hope that game was part of the birth of something new and beautiful.
Tom Keller
Biltmore Lake, NC
Yup...using MLB "streaming" subscription...I made it to the end! Former 'Bal-de-moron' who used to hang-out around the Fred Tyler clubhouse! Now living in CO.
William "Doc" Gehring, Ph.D.
(Plate umpire in "Major League II" for the final strikeout!)
Stayed up through the 9th listening on my IPhone. Heard the hit by Davis to tie it up. Was in and out of sleep through the 14th inning, on one hand trying to fall asleep, while on the other hand not wanting to miss what happened next. I decided at 2:00 A.M. that I needed to get some sleep, and only way that would happen was to shut my phone off. Woke up again at 3:50 A.M. like a kid on Christmas morning. Grabbed my phone, and in a sleep induced daze saw the 4-2 score and rejoiced. Then I realized the game was not over, and was going into the bottom of the 18th. Convinced myself that JJ would close it out and it was not worth losing more sleep to listen to the end. Woke up to see the game was won.
Not enough coffee in the world to help me right now, but it was all worth it. I am at a loss for words with this team, AND FINALLY FOR ONCE IN SEVERAL SEASONS, THAT IS A GOOD THING!!!
Jim McMullen
I stayed up until the end of the game and had to be at work at 8 a.m. I live in Ocala, FL, and this on a day spent in synagogue for the Jewish New Year wearing my Oriole Yamulke. I am exhausted.
Sandy Israel
Yes, I was a devoted fan and watched the 18 innings. I was really hoping for them to finish the game (WINNING of course) by 4am so that I could catch 2 hours of sleep before the alarm went off! It was well worth the missed z's.
GO O's!!
(but even if they had lost, it still would have been worth staying up to support our boys)
Teresa Mealey
What a game! I stayed up in hopes that Showalter would have to go in and pitch.
Sleepy in DC,
Jacob Hileman
I missed the game last night to go to a concert instead. But lucky me, I checked the score just in time to catch the bottom of the ninth, and a still got to watch a full nine inning game anyway! At this point, extra innings just means a guaranteed win, so I knew I couldn't go to sleep. Paying for it this morning but it was totally worth it--love our boys!
Ashley Morris
Yes I stayed up and watched the whole game. Luckily my wife was out of town and our little girl slept soundly.
I had to get up at 6:15 to get her ready for kindergarten. I am hoping I put meat on her sandwich.
Tom Burns
Brevard, N.C.
Easy to wake up after a one hour nap when the Orioles win. Here's my story:
I went out to watch the game and chat with friends. I was getting ribbed by a Yankees fan friend after the Mariners took the two-run lead "How about your Orioles! Ahah" in a sarcastic tone, but I kept the faith and got my digs in when the Orioles finally tied it in the 9th.
Like previous extra-inning games there were those moments where you felt like "Oh THAT was their chance right there," but the bullpen kept them in it. So, obviously it was getting late and I went home and continued to watch the game in my bedroom. The O's got men on in the 18th and as soon as I saw they were going to have Teagarden come up to pinch hit I knew we were about to take the lead. If they had lost that game I'm sure I would have called in sick, but I got an hour of sleep and feel like a million bucks this morning! Let's GO O's!
Michael Firestine
Stayed up for the entire Oriole game that ended at 3:55 AM. After the game, fell asleep by 4:15 AM and my alarm woke me up at 5:00 AM. Had to be at work by 6 AM.
Well worth it. But if they would have lost, it would have been a different story. This game may take them to the division crown.
Tim Schickner
I watched the game from first pitch (10:10 pm EST) to the last out (4:00 am EST). I had to get up for work at 8:00 am but it was well worth it! I had to see the Orioles win and tie for 1st place.. Would I do it again? Of course.
Austin Delauder
I tried to stay awake for the entire game but kept dozing off. When I awoke at 5:30, I thought I had dreamed that the Orioles won in 18 innings; however, when I looked at The Sun online this morning, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't a dream after all!!!
Bob Stratemeyer
I fell asleep on my couch during the 4th inning and woke up by chance just as the 9th inning was starting. I stayed up and watched the rest of the game. I fell asleep again at 4:15 a.m. and was at my desk in my office at 7:30 a.m. after dropping my daughter off at day-care at 7:20 a.m.
I was/am exhausted – but the news of Dylan Bundy's potential call-up has my adrenaline ramped up.
The big questions: can I get through another late game tonight? Do I have a choice given that I may be able to see Bundy's MLB debut tonight? Both rhetorical questions!
Keith Forman
Well it is a great day to be an O's fan even though I only got three hours sleep. I live in Kansas but have been a diehard O's fan since 1966 when I was just 12 years old. Have been a lot of good memories thru the years and some bad but this year has been something special. Turned by brother in law into an O's fan when he was a little kid and every year we take a baseball trip to see the O's. It was the Minnesota series at Target Field this year.
Anyway, had to sleep on the couch so I would not wake up the wife and dogs after the game ended but it was worth it. I will be on the couch again tonight for the next O's win. Thank God for that MLB package that my wife added to the cable TV so I can see every O's game.
At work now and reading all of the O's articles on the internet. Hope I don't get caught by the boss!
Let's Go O's!!!!!!!
Barry Augustine
Hutchinson, KS
Yep!! I am one of these and should know better, as a father of two young children (2 and 6). Plus, I'm 45!!
I grew up in Baltimore City.
Bernard McKenna
I watched all 18 innings with my 6-day-old son sleeping on my chest. The O's are 5-2 in the little guy's lifetime!
David Sherzer
I went to bed in the 7th and tossed at 2 am and immediately turned on ESPN to see that they had tied it and they were in the 14th.
Then I forgot my password to get on mlb.com to listen so I had to follow "gamecast" on mlb. This team is more than scrappy, they are likeable, loveable and a joy. I don't want to say destiny because I only asked for .500. but this is a beautiful team.
Gary A. Bernabe
Fifteen years since relevance, I can stay up until 3:00 CST (live in Nashville) to watch the O's pull out yet another amazing victory. 5 hours later, I'm at work reading all the articles covering last night's marathon. Go O's!
Andrew Chelton
I didn't stay up for the whole thing, but I managed to tag along until 2:35 AM. We can't get MASN in our area, so I have to rely on the MLB gamecasts online for pitch-by-pitch. That makes things even more agonizing, waiting for pages to refresh, etc. Still, I followed the entire game from first pitch up to 2:35 AM, since I try to stay strong for my O's here in North Carolina, even if that means lost sleep and early rising for work! I saw that we won when I checked again at 5:00 AM. The best part of waking up is a VICTORY in your cup!
Jim Williams
Archdale, N.C.
I never pulled an all-nighter as a student, but last night was close.
I keep score only when I'm at the ballpark. So I was able to do some reading and housecleaning in between pitches and innings.
I drove to Annapolis without incident this morning but expect to be heavily caffeinated for the public hearing I'm attending at 10 a.m.
Delegate Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg
I'm a Baltimore transplant living in San Diego. Now before you say "big deal, you're on west coast time," I get up at 3:30am for work, so I never left the eastern time zone. Five hour energy drink and diet mountain dew are definitely my friends this morning. I watched the whole game, and from the 6th inning on I watched it downstairs next to my sleeping wife. A series of silent fist pumps at Darren O'Day's strikeouts and Tommy Hunter getting out of two jams. I freakin' love this team!
Don Ayres
So here was my night:
1. Due to the crazy weather it took me two hours to get home from my job in NYC back home to CT
2. Got home bought MLB.TV for $9.99 for the rest of the season so I could watch my O's play
3. Was watching the end of the Rays game and thank god the Soxs held on
4. Watched President Obama on Letterman at midnight while the O's played the 9th on my laptop we SCORED.
5. Watched the next 9 innings hoping for a run and wasn't disappointed, now I'm back at work in NYC and NEED SLEEP
Rishi Kadiwar
I stayed up for all 18 innings last night (with possibly a nodding off moment somewhere around the 16th inning)- now at work in an all day budget briefing. On my second diet coke of the morning.
Emily Alt
My head hit the pillow at 4:05 a.m., minutes after the Orioles completed another warrior-like display of tenacity and resolve ... another chapter in one of the most improbable seasons in baseball history. Yes, I'm here to tell you that this story has become larger than "just" Baltimore. This season is fast becoming a Disney screenplay. I marvel over Matt Wieters. Is he human? I marvel over Buck Showalter. Sometimes it seems as though he could walk across the Inner Harbor without getting wet.
Last night, as each inning passed, as each mariner bullet was dodged, I kept telling myself that "this would be my last inning". I was fully aware of the absurdity that I was sacrificing a productive "tomorrow" so I could stay up for this marathon. I knew I had to take my son to school at 7:30 a.m. … and I knew that the car ride to school would be all about the O's. And I also knew that we were in the midst of a 13-game extra-inning win streak ... and there was NOTHING that would stop me from watching a single stroke of Buck's genius, or a single pinch hit.
So, as the clock struck 3:40 a.m. and Jim Johnson FINALLY made his way toward the mound, I sat in awe as my team passed ice through its collective veins and closed in on another win, another visit to the top of the standings, and another morning where I could tell my 6-yearold son that our team is special. I've loved this team for more than 30 years, and I've never stopped. And if they play another 18 innings tonight, you can be sure that I'll be awake ... until the final out.
Dan Solomon
I did stay up for the whole game and did go to work. I am not tired yet though - still pretty pumped up! I live in Richmond and watched the telecast on MASN.
Go O's!
Dave Keys
I stayed up for the conclusion of the Orioles game this morning. I'm active duty military and am on watch overnight tonight, so I didn't mind the preparation in adjusting my body. Go O's!
Alex Polyak
I woke up at the top of the 9th inning just in time to catch the 2 runs scored to tie the game. I was feeling pretty lucky thinking I might see the O's win just watching a few innings...ha. About 4 hrs later I did see the win. Luckily I recently retired and could sleep in this morning. Thanks for the win Orioles!
Theresa Waltermyer
Living in Gettysburg I know history when I see it and hear it! My 6 month old puppy at 1:30am decided he needed to go out and "do his business", so while taking Teddy out I grabbed my smartphone and figured I could check the final of the O's game…. Saw it was STILL going in the 12th so I figured I would pull-up the audio on the At-Bat app and listened….. and Listened… and listened….
Cannot believe this team! I had gone to the game last Tuesday that went 14 innings and here they go again winning now in 18 inning and 5 plus hours on the field. This team is magical and this is really a season to remember.
Pete Roy
Gettysburg, PA
Grew up in Silver Spring as a HUGE O's fan. Can't get enough of this pennant race. Just the most amazing thing that's happened to me as a sports fan in years.
I live in NYC right now and watch all games on MLB Extra Innings.
Was home in Silver Spring for the Jewish New Year yesterday and was excited to catch the game on the radio on the four-hour drive back to N.Y., which I did. Davis hit the 2-rbi single as I parked my car.
Walked into my apartment at 12:45 a.m. in time for the bottom of the 9th inning.
Despite having a 9 a.m. meeting, I decided to go for it and stayed up watching until 4 a.m. (with the help of two chewy bars and an Arnold Palmer).
I'm already at work this morning reading about Dylan Bundy because I had a 9 a.m. meeting.
In between I also helped my wife with my 3-month old, who was up for feeds at 4:45 and again at 6.
To say I'm pooped is an understatement. throat is killing and eyes need to be propped open.
It is all worth it though - 18 innings of pure Orioles Magic!!!!
Scott Zakheim, Manhattan
I stayed up because it's the first time since I've followed the team (I'm only 21) that they've been in contention. Totally worth it.
Alex Leisawitz
I watched the first 3 innings before falling asleep last night. But then I woke up around 1:30 a.m. and checked my iPhone to see the score, saw it was tied and turned the TV back on. At that point, I began to suffer from what I've termed "Osomnia." It's a condition where a person is unable to fall asleep while watching the Orioles on a West Coast swing. When I finally did go back to sleep after the game and post game interview around 4:30 a.m., I knew today's work day would be tough … but we O's fans have slept through the last 15 seasons so its well worth it!
Kevin Gandel
Went to bed @ 4 a.m., drifted in and out from about the 15th inning, but that could have been the EA Poe I was reading during commercials more than the game. Had to stay up, haven't had the need to do it in 15 years. Of course it was worth it, and I'll do it again tonight if required.
Now even more incentive with the Bundy news. I took my son to a Potomac Nats/Keys game on July 4 and he met Dylan and got his autograph. Sept continues to NOT disappoint. LET'S GO O's!!! (just leave fewer runners on base)
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D.C. 'Bachelor' hopeful 'blindsided'
Lesley Murphy, the politico-turned-"Bachelor" contestant, was recently voted off the ABC reality show, and she opens up about her experience in an interview with POLITICO.
Murphy, 25, says she initially tried out for the show because "I've always had a strong liking for the show, but I didn't watch it every season dreaming I'd be one of the contestants some day."
She added, "I think this time around, the thought just popped into my head and I was at a good place in life to be able to do it. I'm 25 and single with a great job. I'm just missing that one thing that could make my life even more enjoyable. Why not go on a show like 'The Bachelor'?"
Murphy says that "leaving the show was tough" and says "I was pretty blindsided to be honest" (Murphy was eliminated during week 7).
"I didn't really know what had happened between us until watching it back. Nobody ever wants the 'my relationships with the other women have progressed more than ours' card thrown at you, but that's what happened. I wasn't ready to leave, but that wasn't my decision to make."
Murphy, who has returned to her job as a consultant at the Eye Street firm New Partners, says her Washington experience helped her on the show, referring to one woman on "The Bachelor," Tierra, as "kind of like the tea party crazy that gets a lot of attention, had very little substance and stuck around longer than anyone expected."
Murphy says she's not sure what's next for her, professionally.
"I was a broadcast major, and definitely think about giving that industry a shot. But the beauty of politics is that I can use this skill set anywhere I wind up. There are always cats to herd, deals to broker and issues to spin."
But she is sure about one thing: Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau ought to give the show a shot.
"I think I'd most like to see Jon Favreau out of all the eligible politicians. His speeches and buzzed haircut make me swoon."


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NBA players unanimously voted to remove executive director Billy Hunter as head of their union on Saturday. Player support for Hunter waned after an independent report last month indicated that he could have misused NBPA funds, engaged in nepotism and had his contract renewed in 2010 without following proper union rules.
National Basketball Players Association president Derek Fisher announced the results of the vote in Houston, the site of the NBA All-Star festivities.
"We want to make it clear that we are here to serve only the best interests of the players," Fisher said. "No threats, no lies, no distractions will stop us from serving our memberships."
Fisher announced a full executive committee of current players, including the Spurs' Matt Bonner as vice president, the Heat's James Jones as secretary-treasurer and the Nets' Jerry Stackhouse as first vice president.
Hunter, 70, who was on indefinite leave of absence since the earlier report broke, defended his actions and denied the allegations on Friday morning. He responded to his firing, though he said he had yet to be officially notified.
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Hunter led the union through three collective bargaining agreements with the league since 1996.


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1,500 Meter Run - Ryan TerLouw, seeded 2nd, 3:47.16, senior from Pella, Iowa (Pella HS). TerLouw is a two-time All-American, finishing 7th in 2005 and 5th a year ago.
100 Meter Hurdles - Lindsay Lange, seeded 13th, :14.62, junior from Manistee (Manistee HS). Lange will be competing in this event for a third straight year. She has not advanced to the finals in her previous appearances
High Jump - Christina Lis, seeded 10th, 5-6, sophomore from Novi (Novi HS). Lis will be competing at nationals for the first time.
Pole Vault - Jennifer VanderMeer, seeded 6th, 12-6, senior from Holland (Holland HS). VanderMeer will be seeking to achieve All-America status a fourth straight year. She was the silver medalist in both 2004 and 2005 and a year ago placed sixth.
Heptathlon - Lindsay Lange, seeded 5th, 4,656 points, junior from Manistee (Manistee HS). In 2006, Lange was the bronze medalist in the heptathlon.


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Ah, was wondering if you guys would pick up my story submission. Nice to see that you did.
But there's plenty of artists out there that have lost my support, interest and custom. Tweeting is one way to do that, pumping out mediocre crud products is an even better one.
Mind you, there's companies who's products I start buying because they think cruelty to animals makes a fine TV commercial
The current crisis was partly caused by influences out of Europe but also by banks here. Some banks have had presidents who've made messes big enough to warrant an action like this.
I kinda like this, hope this will be followed elsewhere. There's a lot of "burn him" sentiment all over, can't say I really blame people.
Perhaps the studios have outsourced the DMCA operation to Elbonia?
A can of red bull. Of course with a shot of vodka in it after 5 o clock. Aren't there any dangers there?
Friend send me a link to some "cookery" videos some time back. Basically just seeing how much bacon you can layer around things like turkeys.
This.. well.. it seems to be mainly a North-American addiction. Fat + Calories + large portion = good food to a lot of them.
I'd be really curious to see any kind of cases like this in the Netherlands
Just try to watch any country music video from Europe. Legally that's pretty near impossible because CMT/MTV doesn't think you should and they constantly police youtube.
Over here a provider tried to block certain traffic streams like ping. Public outrage ensued and the block was quickly lifted.
Next thing you noticed is that the prices for mobile data were increasing. These days 1 gig for 10 euros is considered a pretty good deal. Also people are finding that on existing contracts unlimited traffic is not unlimited anymore. Speeds are squeezed way down after the limit of 1Gb is reached in a month.
All this contrasts quite nicely with an application landscape that pushes always online at every opportunity.
Americans are school trained not to have any real sense of taste.
The cookie dough story.. who would be so silly as to buy pre-made cookie dough in the first place?
I was in Malta in the mid 1990s and there juice boxes of wine were as popular with teens then as cans of energy drink and wodka are now.
So... your copyright laws got fucked up even further? But there's now a good chance of sending Justin Bieber to jail? Well, that's a small consolation I suppose.
I'm wondering. I've seen a lot of "let smokers pay for their own cancer treatment".
How about obese people? By now there's more of those in most western countries than there are smokers.
I'd say. I mean when you see that you stop buying that brand or from that shop. Or am I missing something?
Once again, it's your democracy at work. You get what you vote for. Or the people that bought the politicians get value for money.
Either way, it's good enough for a good chuckle. Yet one more step away from freedom for the land of the free... Love the irony of it.
Perhaps this will root out this practice. I remember the trailer for "best defense" and then actually seeing it... another fine example of a trailer consisting of the only good bits of the entire film.
I say go ahead with tihs, just because it's normal practice in the industry doesn't mean it's not misleading.
Yes, you get the legal system you vote for. The open network is an interesting angle and I really do wonder what your good reasons are
I've seen high heeled shoes with red soles in the last century already. In fact I can remember a little shoestore in Vienna that had quite a collection
Good to see at least one judge in the US of A has some common sense when it comes to these things
So glad to read I'm not the only one! Because it's on techdirt and I've never heard of her she's probably considered good looking by some
There's way too many films these days where I'd expect to get paid $30 to sit 'm out. I can't recall 3 films made in the last 5 years where I'd even gone to the theatre for. Not that going to a movie theatre is that much fun. Sound tracks are all about how many subsonic rumbles you can get away with as a director. Volume is just short of real pain level. Seats are uncomfortable, the floor sticks and "one does not meet a better class of people"


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