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Human Evolution

Humans and Chimps Alike?

Determining the genetic basis for differences between humans and chimps does not explain the origin of those differences. We share not a common ancestor but a common Designer.

Who Were Cave Men?

Genetics has clearly established that Neanderthals and Denisovans were fully human. Any physical differences should be viewed as nothing more than variations that can occur within the human race descended from Adam and Eve.

Fossils of Cave Men

Human fossils —and their stone tools—are strikingly similar everywhere they are found in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene layers. These people had large brow ridges, small chins, and receding foreheads.

Evolving Intelligence

Evolutionary anthropologists believe mental abilities had to evolve. Yet they note large gaps in this archaeological record across which it is difficult to discern whether mental evolution was gradual or punctuated by leaps and losses.

Human Evolution Topics

  • Ape-Man

    Ape-Man

    Can man’s ancestry be traced back to an ape-like ancestor? How much do we really have in common with primates? Have fossil ape-men been found?

  • Australopithecus sediba

    Australopithecus sediba

    Australopithecus sediba is not an ancestor of man. The evidence properly interpreted shows that such fossils are either human or ape, not an in-between species.

  • Cavemen

    Cavemen

    Was early man truly a stone-age, lumbering brute grunting his way toward primitive language? The evidence says the opposite—early man was intelligent!

  • Hominids

    Hominids

    The news often eagerly reports the discovery of another link in the supposed chain of hominid evolution. What do these finds really show?

  • Homo Floresiensis

    Homo Floresiensis

    The Homo floresiensis of Indonesia, three-foot-tall people affectionately called hobbits, were fully human descendants of Adam and Eve.

  • Human Origins

    Human Origins

    Humans have always been interested in our origins: where did we come from, and how did we get here? The Bible soundly answers the question of human origins.

  • Lucy

    Lucy

    Was the australopithecine Lucy—most famous of all the supposed human ancestors—really a precursor to modern man, or was she simply an ape?

  • Neanderthal

    Neanderthal

    Neanderthals are often treated as subhuman despite having all the hallmarks of full humanity. Except a few skeletal variances, they were very similar to us.

  • Piltdown Man and Other Frauds

    Piltdown Man and Other Frauds

    Piltdown man, and other paleoanthropological hoaxes and forgeries, call attention to the academic dishonesty that is sometimes pedaled as evolutionary evidence.

  • What Makes Us Human?

    What Makes Us Human?

    Evolutionists say that man is just an animal, descended from an ape-like ancestor. However, humans show features that clearly separate us from animals.

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