Gee, Do Ya Think God Really Did Create Man and We Didn’t Evolve?
All my life I’ve heard about the Neanderthal Man, Homo erectus and Homo habilis being the ancestors of man.
The story went like this: First we had Homo habilis which eventually evolved into Homo erectus, which eventually evolved into Neanderthal Man, which eventually evolved into Homo sapiens or humans.
I could never quite understand why these species died out and we survived as Homo sapiens. It seemed logical to me that even though there was an evolution period some of the creatures from which we evolved would have still been around.
Like, why do we still have gorillas which look a lot to me like Neanderthal Man?
Well, bless my soul! Now comes a study that says remains of Homo habilis and Homo erectus lived within walking distance of each other at the same time!
Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man.
The new research by famed paleontologist Meave Leakey in Kenya shows our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, calling into question the evolution of our ancestors.
The old theory was that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became us, Homo sapiens.
But those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years, Leakey and colleagues report in a paper published in Thursday’s journal Nature.
In 2000 Leakey found an old H. erectus complete skull within walking distance of an upper jaw of the H. habilis, and both dated from the same general time period.
That makes it unlikely that H. erectus evolved from H. habilis, researchers said.
It’s the equivalent of finding that your grandmother and great-grandmother were sisters rather than mother-daughter, said study co-author Fred Spoor, a professor of evolutionary anatomy at the University College in London.
The two species lived near each other, but probably didn’t interact with each other, each having their own “ecological niche,” Spoor said.
Homo habilis was likely more vegetarian and Homo erectus ate some meat, he said.
Like chimps and gorillas, “they’d just avoid each other, they don’t feel comfortable in each other’s company,” he said.
Well, glory be! I didn’t come from a monkey after all!
I have a better idea:
25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
God didn’t say, “Let’s tool around with this and see what we come out with in the end as far as man is concerned.” He said “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”
Now, if you believe God looks like any of these other creatures then I guess this evolution garbage could be correct, but there’s a problem with that. Jesus is God Incarnate and when He came to earth He looked exactly like us! Imagine that!
Of course you have to believe in God to believe that, but that can’t be much harder than believing you came from a knuckle-dragging being that simply vanished.
Written by ~J~
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Brian Says:
August 9th, 2007 at 4:14 pmVisit Brian
“Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man.”
Give me a break. This quote is from a news summary, not the actual study. If you’re going to link to a study, if you don’t have access to the actual paper, at least find a press release…not an interpretation. Furthermore, the so-called iconic straight line of human evolution is a straw man. Feel free to tear it down over and over….if it makes you feel better.