New footprints from Ileret, Kenya, supposed to be from human evolutionary ancestor

CMI ^ | March 12, 2009 | Michael J. Oard

[GodGunsGuts]

New footprints from Ileret, Kenya, supposed to be from human evolutionary ancestor

And all based on the angle of the big toe!

by Michael J. Oard

12 March 2009

A new discovery has just been made of “hominin” footprints at Ileret, Kenya, and dated at 1.51 to 1.53 million years ago.1,2

They were found along with footprints of animals on two different levels of strata, separated vertically by 5 metres, in what are described as fine-grained, normally graded silt and sand units deposited as overbank flood deposits. The dates were based on a tenuous interpretation of three volcanic layers within the strata—tenuous because the ash layers had been reworked by flowing water.

The footprints are essentially like those of modern humans, having the same size and sometimes showing the toes as well. However, the researchers were able to conjure out a little evidence to justify saying the prints are only “human-like”. The evidence they relied on was the angle between the impression of the big toe and the long axis of the foot. The angle they measured for the Ileret prints ranged from 9° to 17° whereas the angle for modern humans is about 8°. The angle for supposedly “more primitive” footprints found in Laetoli, Tanzania was 22° to 34°. Apart from this, the characteristics of the Ileret prints were almost identical with modern humans. The researchers attribute the Ileret footprints to the only alleged human ancestor supposed to be around at the time, which is Homo ergaster/erectus...

[GodGunsGuts]

[Piquaboy]

Must be a relative of Baracks.

[coloradan]

Were the same footprints found in Hawaii?

[tpanther]

bigfoot! :)

[MrB]

“that’s racist”

and a direct, logical result of believing evolution.

[flintsilver7]

For comparison, here are two males, one aged 35 and the other aged 45. Can you possibly fathom the differences in the skulls of these two individuals? I can just see scientists digging up these guys in the future and wondering what the hell is going on.

[DocH]

Could be Obama's first footprints, or, in scientific terms...

Mulattoeus Pickaninnikus. :)

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Apollos!

[Wil H]

Did it have big ears and a teleprompter too?

[Piquaboy]

I do not believe in evolution. By the way, I am from Southeast Kansas originally.

[MrB]

Actually, I was accusing neither of you of either racism or evolutionary beliefs,

just making a comment on the link between evolutionary theory belief and the belief that certain “races” are “less evolved” than others.

SE Ks... Pittsburg? Frontnak?

[Zakeet]

HERS? *

* You had to know it was only a matter of time before she would show up in a thread like this.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[GodGunsGuts]

Are you trying to give me nightmares?

[mountainlion]

I don't believe in evolution. Some Israeli archaeologists reassembled Lucy's jaw and she became an ape. There are similar footprints in Texas that are ignored because they are in a dinosaur track. Some samples of a tree killed by a lava flow 200 years ago were sent into a lab to be dated. The tree was dated 50000 years old or so and the lava was dated over 200 million years. So much for the dating. These guys are so biased that they can make anything into evolution or global warming theory.

[fso301]

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“New footprints from Ileret, Kenya, supposed to be from human evolutionary ancestor”

Any huge ear prints?

[allmendream]

Only a complete misunderstanding of evolutionary theory could make someone opine that any race of people are “less evolved”. That is a meaningless term to anyone who actually understands evolution. We are all equally evolved, and adapted to our particular climates and circumstances.

Meanwhile, religious belief is no barrier to racism. The judge in “Virginia vs Loving” told a white man (Mr. Loving) that if God had wanted the races to intermarry, he wouldn't have put them on separate continents.

Then we have the racist “other Adams” beliefs that deny even our common ancestry with other humans with darker skin.

Then we have the “mark of Cain” or the “children of Ham” used as theological justifications for racism.

In other words, your “link” is tenuous at best, and based upon a complete misunderstanding of evolution and what it entails; no surprise there.

[valkyry1]

These guys are so biased that they can make anything into evolution or global warming theory.

I hear you, although the evolutionists have a much longer history at it.