Posted on 04/04/2010 8:30:39 AM PDT by coffee260
There are three possible explanations for how modern man got to this planet and macroevolution is not one of them. The three are these: Modern man was
1. Created here from scratch recently
2. Brought here from elsewhere in the cosmos
3. Genetically re-engineered from one of the hominids.
Here's the basic problem: In order to be descended from something via any sort of process resembling evolution, at some point, you have to be able to interbreed with the something.
Now, it was always a big mystery as to why there was never any evidence of crossbreeding between modern humans and neanderthals despite evidence of the two groups living in close proximity for long periods of time; one fairly good description of the problem was published in Discover Magazine around 96.
And then, in the late 90s, they resolved the mystery by analyzing neanderthal DNA; the result they turned up was that neanderthal dna was about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and pretty much everybody involved in these studies views that as altogether eliminating the neanderthal as a plausible human ancestor. Even standard sources like PLOS Biology agree with this assessment.
Again as I noted, all other hominids were further removed from us THAN the neanderthal. In other words, if you wanted to go on thinking that we are descended from hominids, you would have to produce some new hominid closer to us both in time and morphology THAN the neanderthal and the works and remains of such a creature would be all over the map and exceedingly easy to find, had he ever existed. There is, of course, zero evidence of it.
The basic bottom line is that there is nothing on this planet which we could plausibly be descended from via any process resembling evolution.
Thank you for sharing your insights, dear wendy1946!
Must use!
In response to the claim: “The Conservative, Christian Evolutionist does not now and never did exist.”
I looked in the mirror, checked my driver’s license and my passport, and I think that I actually do exist! I’m a born-again Christian, love my Lord, and volunteer as a docent at the Human Origins exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
As they say in nearby New Jersey, “You got a problem wid dat”?
Not one problem. It’s a free country... you can think anything you like. I don’t doubt there are professing Christians who believe in Evolution, but there is no one who believes the Word of God is true and believes in Evolution unless they haven’t read the Bible. You simply cannot square a literal translation of the Bible with Evolution. I’ve argued the minutia until I’m blue in the face but the fact is you have to parse the Word into bite sized pieces and pick and choose what you want to believe to be a Christian Evolutionist.
Seriously... I’m not interested in debating the point with people who know the Scripture. If you know it and choose to dismiss it then you worship your god and I’ll worship mine. If you don’t know the Word then I’ll be glad to discuss it.
God bless you in your search. GG
Hi Gordon:
Any part of Genesis 1-11 you would like to discuss?
BTW, Info on the new hominid find can be found on the Smithsonian web page.
https://humanorigins.si.edu/resources/whats-hot/new-early-human-species-announced
You forgot that it also creates 2 more missing links.
*may represent *
*is believed*
*Scientists hope*
*will help them to work out *
*The caves are the site of one of the world’s longest-running archeological excavations and are regarded as paleontological treasure troves.*
All kinds of great fossil finds just happen to be conveniently found together in this one area.
Imagine that....
“imagine that” indeed...like when you have to imagine that old rocks are as old as they are...ga-jillions of years old and what-not because of the really old things found amongst them.
And how does one determnine how old the really old things are?
Well “naturally” because they’re found with these old rocks!
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