Page 215 - The Errors the American National Academy of Sciences

In an article written in 2000, Mark Collard and Bernard Wood,
two evolutionist anthropologists, were forced to state that "existing
phylogenetic hypotheses about human evolution are unlikely to be
reliable." 35

Following are the views of some other evolutionists on this
subject:
J. Bower:
It is true that the data are fraught with numerous problems, . . .
Many fossils are fragmentary, and the bones are sometimes difficult

to restore to their original condition. An added problem is that the
dating of human fossils [is] often complex and ambiguous. Finally,
there are serious gaps in the fossil record. 36
A. Hill:

Compared to other sciences, the mythic element is greatest in pale-
oanthropology. Hypotheses and stories of human evolution fre-
quently arise unprompted by data and contain a large measure of
general preconceptions, and the data which do exist are often insuf-

213