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- “Humans and other primates evolved from a common ancestor that lived
more than 65 million years ago. ”
- “Between 6 and 7 million years ago, the hominoid line gave rise to a
branch that ultimately led to the ancestors and closest relatives of
modern humans.”
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- Fine balance
- Flat face
- Upright skull
- Straight back
- Fully extendable hip joints
- Angled femur bones
- Fully extendable knee joints
- Long legs
- Arched feet
- Strong big toes
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- First found in the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf, Germany in 1856
- Originally believed to look ape-like
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- “Detailed comparison of Neanderthal skeletal remains with those of
modern humans have shown that there is nothing in Neanderthal anatomy
that conclusively indicates locomotor, manipulative, intellectual, or
linguistic abilities inferior to those of modern humans.”
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- “Despite their stocky body build and their stocky skull shape, there is
no hard evidence to say that Neanderthals were, in any way, inferior
intellectually to modern man –
- They are known to have made sophisticated flint tools, built huts out of
animal skins and had control of fire. They also buried their dead.”
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- “Most anthropologists recognize burial as a very human, and a very
religious, act. But the strongest evidence that Neandertals were fully
human and of our species is that at four sites Neandertals and modern
humans were buried together.”
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- Drawing of a Neanderthal fossil purchased at the souvenir counter at
the museum in Berlin giving an ape-like appearance
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- Protruding brow ridge
- Stocky body build and short extremities
- Isolated population of people
- Lived in a cold, harsh climate
- 100% human
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- Australopithecus afarensis discovered by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia in
1974.
- About 40% complete
- Dated to be 3 million years old
- Claimed bipedal (walked upright)
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- “The fact that the anterior portion of the iliac blade faces laterally
in humans but not in chimpanzees is obvious. The marked resemblance of AL 288-1
(Lucy) to the chimpanzee is equally obvious…
- It suggests to us that the mechanism of lateral pelvic balance during
bipedalism was closer to that in apes than in humans.”
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- Episode one (Dr. Owen Lovejoy)
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- No similarity in appearance to human
- Long arms are identical to chimpanzees
- Jaws are similar to chimpanzees
- Upper leg bone is similar to chimpanzees
- Lucy’s legs were very ape-like
- Brain size (400-500 cc) overlaps chimpanzees
- Large back muscles for tree dwelling
- Hands similar to pygmy chimpanzee
- Ape-like foot
- Fingers and toes were long and curved
- Locking wrists
- Ankle bone (talus) angle for tree dwelling
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- “A five million year old piece of bone that was thought to be the
collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib...
- The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to
find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone.”
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- “Few sciences produce such abundant
returns from so few fragments of fact as palaeontology.”
- Nigel I Lawkes, The Times (London), Sept 23, 1994
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- “Therefore, it is believed that the last common ancestor between the
African apes and hominids lived during the Pliocene epoch.
Unfortunately, this common ancestor has not yet been found.”
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- “For example, no scientist could logically dispute the proposition that
man, without having been involved in any act of divine creation, evolved
from some ape-like creature in a very short space of time – speaking in
geological terms – without leaving any fossil traces of the steps of the
transformation.”
S. Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory Tower, Taplinger Publishing Co.,
p. 77
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- “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists
as the trade secret of paleontology, the evolutionary trees that adorn
our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches;
the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.”
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- Psalm 8:4-9 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the
moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you
are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a
little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and
honor. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put
everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the
field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the
paths of the seas.
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- For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10
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- Genomes are not recipes. A
creature that shares 98.4% of DNA with humans is not 98.4% human any
more than a fish that shares, say, 40% is 40% human.
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- “We share half our genes with the banana.”
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- Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of the Creation.
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