Human Skull “Unlike Any Human Seen Before” Discovered in China?

Well, this yet-to-be-classified fossil find consists of some jaw, leg, and skull bones from a 12- or 13-year-old child. According to the popular reports, the “face is similarly structured to that of the modern human lineage,” but the “lack of chin appears more like that of a Denisovan.” In other words, this human appears, in the evolutionary view, as a “hybrid” between two branches on our supposed family tree—the branch that modern man comes from and the branch that gave rise to “other ancient hominins.”

All human beings are descendants of the same fully human couple (Adam and Eve), who were made in God’s image and lived only a few thousand years ago.

So really, it’s variety within the human kind. In a biblical worldview, we understand that all humans—“modern” man, Denisovan, Neanderthal, and more—are not separate branches on a family tree as man becomes more evolved. All human beings are descendants of the same fully human couple (Adam and Eve), who were made in God’s image and lived only a few thousand years ago.

The individual whose fossilized remains were discovered isn’t a so-called “hybrid” but rather reflects some of the human genetic variability we find in the post-flood fossil record. It appears that God created Adam and Eve with tremendous genetic variability, some of which we still see reflected today (skin shade, eye shape, etc.) but some of which has disappeared from the human population (the Denisovan chin, Neanderthal brow ridge, etc.). It has nothing to do with evolution and everything to do with created genetic diversity.

This “new” find isn’t puzzling to those who start with God’s Word, and it doesn’t call for a rewrite of human history. It just adds to what we already know about diversity within the human kind.

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