Or maybe He didn't do it that way at all. Maybe he created us from scratch and that is why all 40 something body types appear simultaneously and suddenly in the fossil record.
40 million years is "simultaneously"? You have a funny sense of time.
"Or maybe He didn't do it that way at all. Maybe he created us from scratch and that is why all 40 something body types appear simultaneously and suddenly in the fossil record."
I'm not an anthropologist, having had only one course in it it college, but I do read pop anthropology occasionally...and I don't have the foggiest notion what you mean by 40 "body types."
The fossil record is so meager that we don't even know for sure what happened to Neanderthal man, or whether he and Homo Sap could interbreed. Just a couple of months ago, the date for the appearance of modern man (Homo Sap Sap) got pushed back from 100,000 years ago to 150,000 years ago...or maybe somebody will show that false.
So, I really doubt that the fossil record is informative enough to show anything like "40 body types" emerging simultaneously.
The thing is, you see, that even if man's physical body did evolve gradually over millions of years, passing through Australopithecus and Homo Erectus and the rest along the way, THAT STILL CONSTITUTES GOD CREATING US FROM SCRATCH.
It just doesn't matter whether he did it in an eyeblink, or whether he decided to do it over a period that looks like millions of years to us...He still created us from scratch, either way.