As with “climate change”, you have to look at the underlying motivations.
For climate change, it’s a handy vehicle to advance marxism.
For this topic, however, it’s more spiritual -
the point is to justify the denial of God and humans’ special place in creation.
Man is made in the image of God. In other words, man has free will with a conscious mind that affects and creates his world. What I find interesting is while physics is exploring nonphysical realms of energy and consciousness; the groundwork having been laid by quantum mechanics, biology is still seemingly stuck in a strictly physical Newtonian physics universe. They still believe that self awareness is a phenomenon of the physical brain, which is like saying the music you hear on the radio is a phenomenon of the radio’s circuitry.
[[Homo naledi, appears to have intentionally deposited bodies of its dead in a remote cave chamber, a behaviour previously thought limited to humans. ]]
Yeah not so much- they fell down a narrow opening because they weren’t too bright, and they couldn’t get out- this happens ALL the time In nature
[[Homo naledi, appears to have intentionally deposited bodies of its dead in a remote cave chamber, a behaviour previously thought limited to humans. ]]
They have some huma-like feaqtures]]
Yep= again, not so much!
“Homo naledi’s shoulder joints and curved finger bones are typical of tree-swinging apes. Its flared hips are typical of australopithecine apes. The lower ribcage widens just like the ribcage of australopithecine apes. And while Homo naledi reportedly has a “generally humanlike ankle and foot” in that the shapes of some of the foot bones could be consistent with an arched foot, this is described in the study as a lower arch with a different orientation than typical of the modern human foot.2
The study describing Homo naledi, published in the journal eLife, indicates the wrist, hands, and thumbs were proportioned in such a way to be able to manipulate tools. (As we noted recently, another team of scientists surveying australopithecine hands confirmed that although australopithecines have longer thumbs than living apes, their finger-thumb proportions resemble neither human nor chimpanzee hands. See “Are Human Hands More Primitive Than Chimps’?” to explore this point further.) Likewise, while Homo naledi’s thumb is a little longer than that of Australopithecus afarensis, the authors make no claim that it matches that of humans, indicating instead that it differs from all known hominins.3 Australopithecine finger-thumb proportions reveal diversity among apes, not evolutionary progress in grip engineering. Nothing about Homo naledi’s hand indicates it belonged to a human. With its curved finger bones and other ape-like features, Homo naledi is more likely to have used its hands to swing through trees than to wield a stone axe. Incidentally, no tools or other items associated with human culture were found in the cave.”
https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/homo-naledi-new-species-human-ancestor/