Balderdash in Evolutionary Human History

Faith in deep time clouds the senses
of evolutionary biologists speculating
about the rise of farming and civilization

 

To be an evolutionary biologist, you have to erase everything your mind knows about human nature. Two core beliefs of Darwinists cause this self-imposed rejection of common sense: (1) Deep Time and (2) materialism. Inherent in Darwinism is the self-refuting belief that men are meat robots selected by a blind watchmaker over millions and billions of years. Somehow, within their Yoda-complex-clouded imaginations, the moyboys imagine that people rose out of the slime to start thinking via the Stuff Happens Law.

But if the assumptions are balderdash, the conclusions will also be balderdash. Given what we all know about human nature, their concocted stories make no sense. Darwinians cannot see this, enveloped as they are in their own fogma.

We’ve noted multiple times over the years that the evolutionary story of the rise of agriculture and civilization violates reason. We know what people are like. People are restless, inventive, and always looking for better ways to do things. Evolutionists would have us believe that humans with bodies as good as ours if not better, and brains as big or bigger than ours, were content to live in caves and hunt and gather for tens or hundreds of thousands of years—multiple times all known human history—without ever thinking about planting crops, riding horses, or inventing permanent dwellings. These people, they tell us, were capable of making sophisticated tools, using fire for cooking, and migrating across continents. Some of them even sailed in boats to distant islands. This went on for hundreds of thousands of years, they say. Then, the story goes, in a very short time a few thousand years ago, farming and civilization exploded onto the scene. What kind of extravagant faith does it take to believe the evolutionary tale?

Nobody would believe such a tale is credible except for the Darwinists’ control of the media that censors all the normal people with common sense from talking about these things in journals and secular science sites, and leads people to think that this is what “science” has proven.

Evolutionists must concoct imaginary stories like this because they are wedded to imaginary Deep Time. As we have also said repeatedly, Deep Time is not a solution to their problems; Deep Time is the problem. By our knowledge of human nature and intelligence, it makes no sense to believe it took hundreds of thousands of years (even millions) for big-brained human beings to think about planting seeds. Did none of them ever watch a seedling sprout? Did none of them see a seed in a fruit land on the ground and start growing? It’s preposterous to consider such balderdash and deeply disrespectful to our intelligent ancestors.

To soothe their anxiety over the cognitive dissonance between what is obvious about human nature and the imaginary evolutionary tale requires, they must meditate on Deep Time beforehand. It works like a hallucinogenic drug, making nonsense seem plausible. And they know nobody in the press will laugh at them, because Big Science and Big Media are all in on the scam.

Look no further than this latest storytelling episode by two Darwin Party members.

How human connections shaped the spread of farming among ancient communities (The Conversation, 25 April 2025). The storytellers here are Javier Rivas, an economist at the University of Bath, and Alfredo Cortell, an evolutionary anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute. They wish to inform the peons outside of academia (i.e., the normals) how farming spread so rapidly. As we will see, they need magic words to accompany their wave of the magic wand of millionsssss of yearzzzzzz.

In a recent paper, together with our colleagues Enrico R. Crema, Stephen Shennan and Oreto García-Puchol among others, we used a mathematical model to analyse what happens when communities with different cultures interact.

We used a model from predator-prey equations that usually describe how animal populations compete.

Get it? Human farmers are animals. They are either predator or prey, not beings endowed with intellect, rationality, morality, and free will.

Our results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that when one group of foragers and another group of farmers share the same space, their interaction can determine the speed at which agriculture is adopted.

Wow. They used a mathematical model. They published a paper. They got the NAS to print it. Not surprising, since Big Science is a cartel that censors anyone without a D-Merit Badge (27 June 2024, 19 Aug 2022).

Don’t be fooled by the sciencey-looking props. Their story is goofy.

Basically, their model is a glorified appeal to the Stuff Happens Law. They try to argue that farmers encountered hunter-gatherers (foragers) and that in the interchange, the foragers either learned the advantages of farming, or the farmers killed all the foragers off. Believe it or not. (Our advice: believe it not.)

So, we ask, where did the farmers come from? Here’s the scientific answer: they emerged. One day, they just showed up.

Archaeologists have long debated whether farming spread because local foragers took it up themselves or because farmers from elsewhere moved in and outnumbered or replaced them.

Our model builds on the view that in some cases locals might have adopted farming from newcomers either through exchange or intermarriage but in other cases they might have been displaced or killed by the incoming farmers.

This is the Stuff Happens Law in pure form. These Darwinists don’t say anything about how a big-brained human suddenly dreamed up the concept of planting berries instead of gathering them. Some “incoming farmers” just showed up one day and presto! The rise of agriculture!

You can now ignore everything else they say in their tale. This is nuts. No mathematical model can make beef out of nuts.

We tested simulated data against real data from Eastern Iberia, Denmark and the island of Kyushu (Japan) to see which explanations fit best. Considering a period of 1,000 years, we combined equations for population growth, mortality resulting from species’ competition, migration and something called an assimilation parameter, which represents how many foragers became farmers in each time step.

Don’t be bamboozled by the appearance of legit science in this article. They didn’t witness any of this. All the people in their “real data” test cases are dead, and couldn’t tell us how they overcame the foragers (if their tale is to be believed).

Just because their model works inside a computer with “simulated data” doesn’t mean it represents reality at all. The foundation under all their thinking is evolutionary deep time. Repeat the mantra: Humans evolved. Brains evolved. Behaviors evolved. Therefore, farmers “appeared” like magic out of nowhere and took over the world.

Switch on the Imagination

Time for the obligatory Just-So Story using imagination. This can suffice in place of observation, they think, provided it doesn’t waver from the principle of unguided natural selection operating on meat robots. Once again, they insinuate that the “farmers” appeared out of nowhere. What mutation caused that?

Imagine a small community of farmers setting up near a river that local hunter-gatherers frequently visit. Soon they start trading, and a few foragers learn how to cultivate plants. Over time, more people see the benefits of a stable crop supply and switch from hunting to farming.

Did the foragers do this by intelligent design? Of course not. Visualize the scenario concocted in their imaginations:

Likewise, picture groups of farmers clearing woods to create spaces for husbandry and agriculture. In doing so, they can (even inadvertently) ruin hunting spots during the process, forcing the hunter-gatherers to move elsewhere.

Hi-ho scenario, the Darwin in the tale.

These scenarios might seem obvious, but considering them pushes us to look for more nuanced explanations further than environmental drivers. While such drivers can play a role, our findings suggest that the demographic makeup, how many farmers there are compared to foragers, and how likely foragers are to jump ship, can be crucial in the spread of farming.

Get real. The only tools Darwinians have are environmental drivers, nuanced or not. There is nothing further.

Here is their tale in a nutshell: Evolution was playing games with these hominids that had reached the status of modern humans. Monkey see, monkey do. The farmers (who appeared by magic) showed the “benefits” of farming to the old-fashioned foragers (all benefits are “fitness” benefits in Darwin fantasyland—no intelligence allowed). Then we see a saltation occur: the evolved hominid foragers jump ship! Farming spreads all over!

Funny that a smart Neanderthal capable of using fire and making tools never thought of this for hundreds of thousands of years. Let that sink in.

Might Makes Right

The same dynamics might explain other moments in human history where two groups interacted. For instance, sometimes early humans migrating into Neanderthal territory mixed with the local populations.

On the other hand, the spread of horse-riding groups over Eurasia from 3000BC provoked a major demographic turnover. People adapt to their ever-changing contexts, which causes a snowball effect.

Evolution is a slow-and-gradual, mindless process, except when it is sudden. Remember what we said about horseback riding? (9 March 2023). Evolutionists have no answer for how or why the big-brained hominids never thought of it till a few thousand years ago, a tiny fraction of their mythical history.

From there, these DODO bigots (sorry, but what do you call scientists blindly committed to a self-refuting worldview who censor all opposition?) wander off into climate change, social exchanges, war and peace—all within the echo chamber of a mindless, unguided, materialist culture. Once upon a time, stuff happened, and now we have Big Ag. No intelligence allowed.

The defeater for evolutionary storytellers is to force them to be consistent with their Darwinian presuppositions. Rivas and Cortell, according to your own assumptions, you are meat robots with behaviors that evolved by natural selection. Writing this paper and concocting this model was not a search for true history, therefore, but a strategy for you both to improve your evolutionary fitness. You made it all up to attract females. That’s all. [Cue sound of implosion.] We could rub it in by alleging, like Richard Dawkins taught, that your selfish genes used you to perpetuate themselves. What’s truth got to do with it?

If you would like to think about a more credible account of the origin of agriculture, read Genesis. The first son of the first human pair was a farmer. Agriculture, ranching, metallurgy, technology, and the arts all resulted quickly from our created nature: humans are beings made in the image of God. No millions of years, just thousands. No chance causation by mutations, but intelligent design. No storytelling, but eyewitness testimony. No environmental drivers, but intelligence and morality. No usurpation of one population by another with higher fitness, but sin. No mindless competition, but a need for forgiveness. No amorality, but a risen Savior. No deep-time unobserved history, but His Story. It is written.