Human Evolution Story in Tatters. Another skull scrambles the paleoanthropology story.

Crev.info ^ | 7-20-2021 | Jerry Bergman

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Human Evolution Story in Tatters. Another skull scrambles the paleoanthropology story. What is the reason for so many rewrites of human evolution?

by Jerry Bergman, PhD

July 20, 2021 | Jerry Bergman

This is the fifth article I have written recently about some new fossil find that the discoverer claims ‘requires a rewriting of the story of human evolution.’ What is going on? The constant revision of human evolution story plot, as a result of a new discovery, can be compared to the twists and turns in a hypothetical murder case.

[Nifster]

In the beginning God…..

[Ken Regis]

I’m glad you asked,

Romans 5:12 ESV

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 4:1-6 ESV

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

[billyboy15]

Geez, he really did think of EVERYTHING!

[Ken Regis]

Omniscience.
It’s everything you think it is.

;^)

[Colt1851Navy]

What about the talking Rabbit Bugs Bunny, where does he fit in? The Bible may be more farfetched than Bugs to these intellectual idiots. Jesus, Jesus how I trust Him....oh, for grace to trust Him more.....

[Just mythoughts]

Notice in Genesis 2:5 …….. there was NOT a man to till the ground. Then after the seventh day of rest the Creator formed the first ‘farmer’ and placed him in a garden.. even the historical record contains Hunter/gathers long before ‘farming’. (My iPad keeps capitalizing ‘Hunter’ for me.)

[SuperLuminal]

I believe I spotted him (Dragon Man) in the insurrection mob desecrating the Nation's Capital Outhouse...

[Mr. Blond]

Aye. “Man” and “Adam” are given 2 different words. And the “Day of rest” indicates that the work resumed on Monday.

[Just mythoughts]

Yes.

[ridesthemiles]

Early Mitt Romney

[Ken Regis]

First, creation was completed on Day 6. “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”

These words affirm that God had completed His work. Four times it is said that He finished His work, and three times it is said that this included all His work. Present processes in the universe reflect God sustaining that completed creation, not more creation (cf. Heb. 1:3).
Source: MacArthur

Centered initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes that make up Genesis, Chapter 2 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown into chaos by the human couple’s disobedience. Genesis 2 is not a simple parallel account of creation; rather, beginning with the account of the creation of man and women, the narrative tells what became of that creation. As a beginning, the construction of 2:4-7 forms a fine parallel to the construction of 1:1-3. The subject matter of each תּוֹלְדֹת (tolédot, "this is the account of") section of the book traces a decline or a deterioration through to the next beginning point, and each is thereby a microcosm of the book which begins with divine blessing in the garden, and ends with a coffin in Egypt. So, what became of the creation? Gen 2:4-4:26 will explain that sin entered the world and all but destroyed God's perfect creation.
(Source:ESV Study Bible Notes)

Gen 2:4-7
In the creation of Adam the contrast is striking: against the background of a time when there was no life, no growth, no rain, no one to till the ground, God took great care in forming man. The arrangement in these verses includes a title (v. 4), three circumstantial clauses beginning in the Hebrew with “when” (“when” no shrub ... had yet appeared, “when” there was no man to work the ground, “when” streams ... watered the ... ground), and the verb beginning the narrative (and [He] formed). This mirrors chapter 1 (title, 1:1; circumstantial clauses, 1:2; and the first of the narrative verbs, 1:3).
(Source: Bible Knowledge Commentary)

The chronology which one often finds in the marginal notes of many of the older Bibles, notably in the Authorized Version of King James, is not a part of the Bible itself by any means! Archbishop Usher arrived at the date of 4004 B.C. by using his calculations of the years in the patriarchal genealogies (Gen. 5; 11). A comparison of these genealogies with those in the Gospels will reveal that biblical genealogies are not necessarily complete by design nor were they given to allow us to calculate the span of time between various events in the early history of man. They present certain significant names and omit others. Therefore, they cannot be used to establish the date of creation. The earliest time from which we can calculate calendar years with approximate accuracy is the time of Abraham. The age which one prescribes for the earth is extremely dependant on one's view of creation.

It is well known that there seem to be two different accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis, but this need not cause us to conclude that they are incompatible, as some have suggested. The two sections actually complement each other. Genesis 1:1-2:4a presents a wide-angle view of all seven days of creation and deals with the creation of man and woman as a single act. Then in 2:4b-24 the author focuses on the sixth day, giving details which were not mentioned in the overview in chapter one. The separate origins of man and woman are brought into sharp focus. Therefore, chapters one and two are not in chronological sequence, but Genesis 2:4b-24 presents in greater detail some of what Genesis 1:11, 12, 24-31 merely summarizes
(Source: Complete Word Study Bible)

2:5 a tn Heb "Now every sprig of the field before it was." The verb forms, although appearing to be imperfects, are technically preterites coming after the adverb טֶּרֶם (terem). The word order (conjunction + subject + predicate) indicates a disjunctive clause, which provides background information for the following narrative (as in 1:2). Two negative clauses are given ("before any sprig ", and "before any cultivated grain" existed), followed by two causal clauses explaining them, and then a positive circumstantial clause is given - again dealing with water as in 1:2 (water would well up). 2:5 b tn The first term, שִׂיחַ (siakh), probably refers to the wild, uncultivated plants (see Gen 21:15; Job 30:4, 7); whereas the second, עֵשֶׂב ('esev), refers to cultivated grains. It is a way of saying: "back before anything was growing." 2:5 c tn The two causal clauses explain the first two disjunctive clauses: There was no uncultivated, general growth because there was no rain, and there were no grains because there was no man to cultivate the soil. sn The last clause in v. 5, "and there was no man to cultivate the ground," anticipates the curse and the expulsion from the garden (Gen 3:23).
Source: Net Bible Notes

[lurk]

Evolution just can’t do it.

[Just mythoughts]

Only the unlearned, willingly ignorant (sottish) or deceivers, would claim that Genesis 2 is a recount of the sixth day creation. The name Adam means ruddy…. as to show blood in the face. The same description was given regarding David.. ever read about the ‘key of David’..

The Creator told Moses what to pen and all was good until till the Serpent showed his stuff in a fig grove, not an apple orchard.

[Ken Regis]

It’s just as you say, “Just my thoughts”

Perfect handle.

[kinsman redeemer]

PM

[SauronOfMordor]

Give him a shave and a haircut, and he’d look like my grandfather.

[Hootowl]

That only provides evidence that early human prototypes were Democrats.

[Just mythoughts]

?

[BroJoeK]

Bayan: "I guess Bergman stopped making money shilling as an expert witness.
His PhD has nothing to do with the subject, he’s a fraud."

Right.

from Bergman's article: "Human Evolution Story in Tatters.
Another skull scrambles the paleoanthropology story.
What is the reason for so many rewrites of human evolution?"

V-TWIN: "There are so many holes and gaps it the scientific argument for how life on earth began its not even funny."

Let's start here: "holes and gaps" are what drive science, you know that don't you?
It's what distinguishes science from any religion, and may be what has you so terribly confused.
It's because science is the opposite of any religion which has an official text that cannot, must not, be changed or the whole doctrine comes tumbling down -- that's not science.

Instead science is all about finding new evidence that may confirm or falsify existing ideas, hypotheses & theories.
And that may (or may not) be what's going on here with this alleged "Dragon Man (Homo longi)".

Anyway, Bergman's article mentions two skulls, the first is not new:

1. Dragon Man (Homo longi) was discovered in 1933 and has been handled so much since that its origin & provenance may never be reliably proved.
   It was finally brought to Chinese paleontologists in 2018.
   It is said to be 146,000 years old and may or may not be similar to other pre-human remains of that period, i.e., Dali-man discovered in 1978.

2. The Nesher-Ramla homo partial skull was first identified this year in Israel, is also around 140,000 years old and is thought possibly a cross-breed between Neanderthals and homo-sapiens, though that is not confirmed.

One problem is, the significance of "Dragon Man" may be more political than scientific, since the Chi-Com government insists Chinese evolved separately in China and so did not migrate from Africa or Europe.
Chi-coms hope this 1933-discovered skull can somehow "prove" their political assertions.

Almost nobody outside China buys it.
But that may be helping to confuse our poor author, Jerry Bergman.

[circlecity]

“And the “Day of rest” indicates that the work resumed on Monday.”

On the 8th day God created Barbecue.