Posted on 03/06/2009 8:10:07 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Some scientists have estimated that sets of human footprints found on two separate but close sedimentary layers in Kenya are around 1.51 and 1.53 million years old1 and were made by humans like the “Turkana Boy,” an anatomically human fossil discovered within the same general area in 1984.2 But do these footprints clarify or confound the standard evolutionary explanations?
The obvious “humanness” of these footprints highlights the fact that clear distinctions exist between humans and other creatures. LiveScience reported that these prints have “modern foot features such as a rounded heel, a human-like arch and a big toe that sits parallel to other toes…By contrast, apes have more curved fingers and toes made for grasping tree branches.”2 For example, despite museum depictions of the extinct ape Australopithecus having fully human feet, fossils show that they had typical ape feet.3
The LiveScience article also noted that “modern feet mark just one of several dramatic shifts in early humans.”2 What is not mentioned is that the evolutionary “shifts” are not recorded in these footprints or any other fossils. Either the shifts were too “dramatic” in speed to have left any evidence, or they never occurred. Judging strictly by the fossil record, it is as if apes and humans never changed from one to the other, but instead retained the stable basic forms from their beginnings. Anthropologist John Harris of Rutgers University remarked after considering the creatures that left these tracks, “We’re seeing a very different hominid at this stage.”2 Indeed, the human form is “very different” from apes and always has been.4
This new find will also, according to Harris, “bring up controversy again about the Laetoli prints,”2 discovered in Tanzania in 1976 and considered at the time the earliest evidence for bipedal (upright) walking. One question never resolved is why such clearly human foot features would have existed on a creature that supposedly lived over 3 million years ago.5 Paleoanthropologist Russell Tuttle of the University of Chicago concluded, “In sum, the 3.4 million-year-old footprint trails at Laetoli site G resemble those of habitually unshod modern humans. None of their features suggest that the Laetoli hominids were less capable bipeds than we are.”6 In other words, even after 3.4 million years of evolution, human feet remain virtually the same.
The Laetoli tracks are not considered human, a conclusion that is not based primarily on diagnostic observations but rather on the evolutionary reasoning that human features should not have existed so long ago in rocks that predate humanity’s alleged ancestors. But if they were made by humans, as would be apparent to an unbiased observer, then they present a contradiction to evolutionary assumptions: How could humans have existed prior to the creatures from which they evolved?7
Despite fossil interpretations that deliberately exclude the historical framework provided by God in the Bible, the evidence stubbornly insists that human evolution never took place, and that people were created fully-formed and fully-functional from the beginning.
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[[but I made a commitment to myself and to God to try and at least remain faithful to establishing a regular presence of scientists who present the evidence for God’s creation, and against the idea that we are purposeless blobs of randomly generated tissue.]]
Keep up the good fight- You won’t get anythign but hte usual thread dearailing ad hominem attacks against ya, but at least hte truth IS getting out there and exposing Macroevolution for hte lie that it is
[[Speaking it being unusual for a certain person “not to lie, distort the truth, misinterpret science”...please give the following a careful read. All the best—GGG:]]
Yep- I pay him no mind- He’s proven over and over again he isn’t interested in intellectual honesty or in discussing hte topics- He’s only interested in maligning Christians and Creationists and ID folks.
[[As such, the theory will never die, but is with us until The Day, when it’s absurdity will be made obvious when the Rider splits the clouds!]]
Yup- a day I wait anxiously for- The look on their faces will be something to behold as they exclaim “But, but, bacteria developed a resistance to antibiotics, and some even ‘evolved’ the ability to digest 2% of nylon (Something the evolutionists NEVER disclose when they claim Bacteria ‘evolved’ the ability to ‘digest nylon-’- the ONLY thing they are digesting are the elements in nylon that are EXACTLY like their previous food sources structurally- somehting evos keep hidden from hte public)- Oh and let’s not forget their ‘best ‘established’ evidence to date- the evolution of hearing in land animals- another hting they keep hidden is the FACT that the skulls which supposedly show a ‘neat’ little evolutionary line are infact drawn the same size BUT this is intentional deceit on their part because the water creature is hte size of a rat while the land creature the skull is drawn the same size of, and for which evos claim is the ‘closest relative’ of hte water creature is the SIZE OF A HIPPO! Where are all the ‘transitions’ and billions of morphological evolutionary changes between those two creatures? MISSING of course- but their ‘neat little chart’ intentionally deceives the public by inferring that the creatures were the same size- So much for their ‘best evidentiary case’ for evolution from water to land creatures and hearing bones!
[[They always have these questions that I typically read as requesting an answer. I guess their questions are really just rhetorical and often bait.]]
Precisely- the usual suspects on these threads are NEVER itnerested in the actual facts or the acvtual topic- all they are interested in is maligning and ridiculing- hoping to trap someone in a statement that might not be 100% corrrect or explained right so they can then declare ‘victory’ over the creationist- it’s a sad little game they play but it’s all they have because hte evidence just simply refutes all their claims when examined objectively- Spitwad throwing DC’ers is all they are
==Keep up the good fight
For my part, there is no shortage of motivation. It is finding the time to do it that is proving elusive. Thanks for the encouragement.
==Yep- I pay him no mind
Kind of difficult when he claims Christians who are sold-out for Christ are damaging to the cause of Christianity. It never occurs to him that new souls are being added to the Lamb’s Book of Life on a daily basis because of the efforts of ministries such as CRI, CMI, etc. And they do it without ever compromising the Word of God. Imagine that!
That thoughtful statement definitely puts you in the higher double digit range. And here I thought it was lower than that.
Dr. Paul LeMoine
Yawn!!
Cedric
Footprint of an alien astronaut from a far away galaxy?
No definitions will be forthcoming from me.
If you desire definitions, please feel free to research them on your own.
You may feel free to consider yourself an animal.
I understand the need for some to do so in order for them to be fully related to their self-proclaimed primate family members and relatives, but as a matter of courtesy, I will refrain from such labels.
I figured as much, but that's what one would expect from the intellectually lazy.
“Whatever. It still doesn’t belong there.” [excerpt]Not your call.
wrong assumption by you, the intellectual pridefully snobby.
I simply don’t choose to play your stupid game.
And I never debate a prideful, puffed up snob.
It’s like trying to teach a pig to sing.
It is a frustrating losing endeavor and it only upsets the pig.
I suppose you would know from experience. Please do not respond. Discussing science with has been like describing a sunset to the colorblind.
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