Posted: Oct 14, 2016 1:32 pm
Calilasseia wrote:
Oh, as for the idea that there's no fossil evidence for anything resembling a Pongid in Africa, that's bullshit. You can download, for free, an entire book devoted to Tertiary African Pongidae, published by Yale University way back in 1969. Enjoy.
Sorry, my bad. Orangutans are pongins. "Pongid" is, apparently, an obsolete taxon which has since been replaced with "Hominids" and includes all of the great apes including humans. The creationist claims that there are no fossils of pongins in Africa. There is a pongin species much closer to Africa than Sumatra, Ankarapithecus, but its existence only helps the creationist because it lived in relatively close proximity to Mount Ararat where the Bible claims the Ark came to rest. It would be great if a pongin species were found in Yemen or the Sinai as that would be in accordance with an African place of origin.