Saturday, October 16, 2010

Is It Human Or Ape - Christians decide


This chart is from Ken Miller's brilliant book "Only A Theory". I recommend this book highly. I am still bewildered that he is Christian and not sure how he compartmentalizes his belief in a primitive desert god and science. Maybe someday I will read or see a video of his explanation for that.

Anyway, the chart above really shows a significant fact of evolution - naming species is an arbitrary designation. Everything living thing is a missing link, a transitional being. The chart shows Christian "scientists" do not agree with each other on whether a fossil is human or ape. Evolution is gradual change over time. A child will look like its parent and will be the same species, but as you pick out fossils over longer periods of time you will see significant differences and be confused. Paleo-anthropologist who are not god-soaked have the same trouble deciding which species these fossils are as well. What more evidence do we need? It is quite true there is considerably more evidence and it only grows. The supernatural gets pushed back to fewer and fewer things we don't know. Each discovery pushes it back even farther and there is no one instance of it going the other way.

ER 1470 - Homo rudolfensis or Homo habilis - 1.9 million years old

ER 1813 - homo habilis 1.9 million years old

ER 3733 - Homo ergaster - 1.75 million years old

WT 15000 - Homo erectus or Homo ergaster (Turkana boy) - 1.6 million years old

Java - Homo Erectus - 1 million years old

Peking - Homo Erectus - 780k years old


Which ones are Homo Sapiens?





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