[MestaMachine]

I cannot understand for the life of me WHY these nitwits seem to think that this entire landmass was totally empty and that there could not possibly have been a truly indigenous population.

[keat]

I cannot understand for the life of me WHY these nitwits seem to think that this entire landmass was totally empty and that there could not possibly have been a truly indigenous population.

Because that would mean two species of humans evolved separately on opposite sides of the earth.

[oh8eleven]

I cannot understand for the life of me WHY these nitwits ...
Welllllll, you were told:

"Their discovery will change everything you thought you knew about how people arrived in the Americas."

I guess you ain't buying it. Neither am I.

What I also don't understand is how they can claim, "15,000 years ago, humans camped in a lush Texas valley ... this places human occupation of America over 2,000 years earlier than previously believed."
With a simple search I can find this 2004 story - "New Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago."

[Boogieman]

“I cannot understand for the life of me WHY these nitwits seem to think that this entire landmass was totally empty and that there could not possibly have been a truly indigenous population.”

Because they believe in evolution, which requires the common descent of all men from one origin. So, everywhere else, except where that origin took place, wouldn’t have any “truly indigenous” people, according to that theory.

[blueplum]

because if we accept the existence of more than one indigenous population, the ‘native’ American Indian claims go right out the window along with their reservations, as do the claimers to Atzalan. And we can’t have that, can we?