It seems these days that there are precious few ordinary human or ape fossils unearthed, rather they all have to be a missing link between the two. One should be wary of claims that this or that skeletal feature “proves the creature walked upright”, as usually some other evolutionist fossil “expert” will debunk or dispute the claim.
Human fossils of people who dispersed from Babel are found in various layers of Pleistocene rocks. Biblically we understand that a variety of people dispersed from Babel, and these human fossils track their scattering around the globe. The oldest and deepest of these human fossils—Homo erectus—were just as human as we are.
The existence of human variations in fossils is not evidence that humans evolved through an evolutionary sequence. A better question would involve an exploration of the diversity among humans descended from Noah’s family after the tower of Babel.
The new fossil skull is quite distinct from A. afarensis, and has been given a new genus and species assignment--Kenyanthropus platyops, “flat-faced human from Kenya.”
The physical features which distinguish 'primitive' from modern man can be accounted for by non-evolutionary explanations.
Commonly, apologists for evolution put up a bold front and try to deny that the tree of evolution is full of holes (or, more accurately, is mostly holes with just twigs at the end). It is therefore instructive whenever an article appears that is written by evolutionists who candidly acknowledged the major discontinuities in (alleged) evolutionary sequences.
Often in the history of evolutionary theory, early preliminary reports of new fossil finds are over-optimistic.
The early post-Flood descendants of Noah exhibited a great degree of genetic and environmental variation in skull and facial features, as seen in the differences between Cro-Magnons and Neandertals,
A fossil found recently in Chad, classed as a new species, and nicknamed ‘Abel’, was the first australopithecine to be found west of the Great Rift Valley.
The Laetoli footprints tell us that man was walking around as he does today when he first appeared in the fossil record. There is no sign of evolution here!
The ‘Java man’ was a group of fossils found by Dutch physician Eugene Dubois in the Dutch East indies.
‘Nutcracker man’ was the popular name given to a skull found by Louis Leakey, father of well-known fossil-anthropologist Richard Leakey, in East Africa in 1959.
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