Jack Cuozzo

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Dr. Jack Cuozzo is a young Earth creationist and orthodontist in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

1 Career and family
2 Buried Alive
3 Le Moustier skull
4 Books published
5 Contributions
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Career and family

He studied at Georgetown University in Biology with a Philosophy minor, and a Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S., Oral Biology; Certificate of Specialty in Orthodontics from Loyola University/Chicago Graduate School of Dentistry. Cuozzo studied with Dr. Francis Schaeffer, a Christian Apologist in Switzerland in 1977. He also served in the Navy aboard the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65). He is married with five grown children and fourteen grandchildren.

Cuozzo is mainly known for publishing the book "Buried Alive: The startling truth about Neanderthals."

[edit] Buried Alive

His book "Buried Alive: The startling truth about Neanderthals" puts forth the assertion that Neanderthals are humans who had lifespans in the hundreds of years. Cuozzo claims that the different appearance of the Neanderthal skull to the modern man skull is merely a consequence of the high age of the individuals to which the bones belonged. In "Buried Alive", Cuozzo asserts that parts of the human skull continue to grow throughout life, and that continued growth like this over several hundred years would produce extreme changes to the skull that would appear like the Neanderthal skulls. Cuozzo then links this hypothesis to interpretations of the bible where it is believed that there has been a Great Flood and people before and immediately after this Great Flood reached ages of several hundred years (as opposed to other interpretations of the bible where such stories are merely metaphorical).

This view is contradictory to the mainstream view on Neanderthal in Palaeontology, no major science journal has published articles on that topic by Cuozzo. Genome mapping of the DNA and mDNA shows differences between the Genome of modern man and Neanderthal that are commonly interpreted as contradicting theories that Neanderthal and modern man interbred, let alone were the same species. "Buried Alive" contains claims there is a conspiracy to suppress information about Neanderthals and manipulate fossils.^[1]

In a book review by Colin Groves, paleoanthropologist and Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University,^[2] Groves first points out that "the entire first section of the book, fifteen chapters long, is a paean of paranoia". Groves goes on to claim that several of uozzo's claims are inconsistent or easily refuted. As examples, Groves points out that the Neanderthal fossils do not show signs of high age (such as worn off teeth) or that fossils of child Neanderthals already show the cranial differences. Groves attributes "obvious competence as a forensic anthropologist" to Cuozzo.

Cuozzo has responded to Groves by mostly repeating the claims of his book.^[3]

In addition there is a critique on Cuozzo's work by Chris Stringer, Professor of Palaeontology, at the Natural History Museum, London^[4] Stringer claims that two additional bone findings of Cuozzo are in fact not bones, and that claims from "Buried Alive" that there has been tampering with data and fossils, are wrong. Dr. Cuozzo has responded to this claim.^[5]

[edit] Le Moustier skull

Cuozzo contributed a chapter in the book: "The Neandertal Adolescent Le Moustier 1 (Band 12) New Aspects, New Results". "The Neandertal Adolescent Le Moustier 1" is published by the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, edited by Herbert Ullrich and includes chapters by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz, Jennifer Thompson and Andrew Nelson, Bruno Maurielle and Alain Turq, and several others.

Cuozzo claims that the Le Moustier Neanderthal original skull shows signs of improper reconstruction based on evolutionary presuppositions. Cuozzo's radiographs of the skull supposedly indicate that the individual was not apelike at all, but human and followed a biblical rate of maturation (slow rate of maturation and long lives - into the hundreds of years).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Books published

Buried Alive: The Startling Truth About Neanderthal Man. (1998) Master Books ISBN 0890512388
Captured Alive. (2003) Master Books ISBN 1414100515

[edit] Contributions

"The Neandertal Adolescent Le Moustier 1 (Band 12) New Aspects, New Results" (Staatliche Museum in Berlin, edited by Herbert Ullrich)
"When Christians roamed the earth" (Masterbooks)
"In Six Days - Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation" (Masterbooks)