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Did Humans Evolve?

Did Humans Evolve?. Evolution story. Evolution begins with the assumption that man has evolved from ape-like creatures. Pick your relative. The Bible. The Bible teaches that God created man. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female

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Did Humans Evolve?

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  1. Did Humans Evolve?

  2. Evolution story Evolution begins with the assumption that man has evolved from ape-like creatures Pick your relative

  3. The Bible The Bible teaches that God created man So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female Genesis 1:27

  4. School Textbooks Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, Biology – Visualizing Life, 1998, p. 213. “Look closely at your hand. You have five flexible fingers. Animals with five flexible fingers are called primates. Monkeys, apes, and humans are examples of primates….Primates most likely evolved from small, insect-eating rodentlike mammals that lived about 60 million years ago.”

  5. Phylogeny of Humans Glencoe/McGraw Hill

  6. School Textbooks Miller and Levine, Biology, 2000, p. 757. “But all researchers agree on certain basic facts. We know, for example, that humans evolved from ancestors we share with other living primates such as chimpanzees and apes.”

  7. Java Man Pithecanthropus erectus • 1891: An apelike skullcap and a humanlike thighbone were found 45 feet apart – claim: 500,000 yrs. old Rudolph Virchow (regarded as the father of modern pathology) stated at the time of discovery: “In my opinion this creature was an animal, a giant gibbon, in fact. The thigh bone has not the slightest connection with the skull.”

  8. Java Man • Human fossils were also found in Java dating about the same age as Java Man • Leading authorities of the time rejected Dubois’s findings • Hackel, a prime promoter of evolution and Java Man, already had a reputation for fraud in promoting his views on evolution • Since 1950, anthropologists and textbooks have been calling Java man Homo erectus

  9. Piltdown Man Segment of lower ape-like jaw Segment of human skull

  10. Piltdown Man New York Times ran an article: “Darwin Theory Proved True.” • Featured in textbooks and encyclopedias • In 1953 scientists studied the bones The Truth A fraud (600 year old bones)

  11. Nebraska Man • 1922 fossil evidence was discovered • Used to support evolution in the 1925 Scopes trial • The claim: 1 million year old intermediate link The Truth An extinct pig’s tooth

  12. What they found What they drew Ramapithecus 1930s

  13. Ramapithecus Time Magazine (Nov. 7, 1977) “Ramapithicus is ideally structured to be an ancestor of hominids. If he isn't, we don't have anything else that is.”

  14. Ramapithecus The claim: 14 million year old intermediate between ape-like creatures and humans • In 1970 a baboon living in Ethiopia was discovered. • Same dental structure • Similar morphological features found on Ramapithecus • Ramapithecus dropped from human line The truth

  15. Summary of “Facts” • Java Man …………….Two different creatures • Piltdown Man ……… Hoax • Nebraska Man …….. Pig • Ramapithecus …….. Ape

  16. Neanderthals Characteristics Anatomy Genetics (DNA)

  17. Neanderthals Original Drawing of Neanderthal

  18. Neanderthals • First found near Dusseldorf, Germany in 1856 • Constructed to look ape-like • Brain capacity about 200 cc larger Initial construction discovered to be wrong • used jewelry • used musical instruments • did cave paintings • capable of speech • buried their dead

  19. Neanderthal Burial Cites Marvin Lubenow, “Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA: An Evaluation,” Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, 1998 p.89. “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 Neanderthals and modern humans were buried together.”

  20. Neanderthal Anatomy Thick brow Stocky body build Short extremities

  21. Neanderthal Anatomy B. Endo, “Experimental Studies on the Mechanical Significance of the Form of the Human Facial Skeleton,”J. Fac. Univ. Tokyo, 1966. Biochemical models have demonstrated that chewing muscles working through the teeth generates intensive concentration of compression in the nasal and forehead region…i.e. a bigger brow ridge.

  22. Neanderthal DNA Nicholas Comninellis, M.D., Creative Defense: Evidence Against Evolution, 2001, p. 195. (citing Marvin Lubenow, “Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA: An Evaluation,” Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, 1998.) “Analysis of Neanderthal DNA failed to demonstrate any significance from DNA of modern humans.”

  23. Neanderthals Were Human Dave Phillips (Physical Anthropologist), “Neanderthals Are Still Human,” Impact Article #223, May, 2000 “Neanderthals were human. They buried their dead, used tools, had a complex social structure, employed language, and played musical instruments. Neanderthal anatomy differences are extremely minor and can be for the most part explained as a result of a genetically isolated people that lived a rigorous life in a harsh, cold climate.”

  24. Conclusion About Neanderthals • Protruding brow ridge • Stocky body build and short extremities • Isolated population of people • Lived in a cold, harsh climate • 100% human • Deformities proven to be from severe arthritis and lack of Vitamin D.

  25. Lucy and the Australopithecines

  26. Challenges to Our Youth Artistic conception Australopithecus africanus What do you notice about this picture? Note contemplative gaze, human hands and use of tools.

  27. Evolutionary Preconception John Gurche, artist, National Geographic, March, 1996 p. 109. “I wanted to get a human soul into this ape-like face, to indicate something about where he was headed.”

  28. What Was Found? • Lucy discovered in 1974 • About 40% of the fossil was found • Claimed to be 3.5 million years old • Claimed bipedal (walked upright)

  29. Lucy and the Australopithecines • No similarity in appearance to humans • 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 • Hands similar to pygmy chimpanzee • Feet were long and curved

  30. Did Lucy Walk Upright To determine if Lucy walked upright three areas of anatomy were examined • The rib cage • The pelvis • Leg and foot bones

  31. Human Ape Conical shape Circular barrel-like Rib Cage • Ape ribs are conical shaped • Human ribs are barrel-like

  32. Lucy’s Rib Cage Brad Harrub (Ph.D. Anatomy and Neurobiology) and Bert Thompson (Ph.D. Microbiology), The Truth About Human Origins, 2003, p. 47. “In Lucy’s case, her ribs are conical, like those found in apes.”

  33. Chimp vs. Human Pelvis Chimp Human

  34. Lucy’s pelvis is “wrong” because it is very ape-like PBS Nova Series; In Search of Human Origins episode one 1994 (Dr. Owen Lovejoy)

  35. Laetoli Footprints Footprints discovered in 1978 in Laetoli, Tanzania. The footprints were dated at 3.5 million years old. Who made these footprints?

  36. Human Ape (Lucy) Ape and Human Footprints Laetoli footprint

  37. Footprints and Real Evidence Russell Tuttle, “The Pattern of Little Feet,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Feb 1989, p. 316. “Indistinguishable from those of habitually barefoot Homo sapiens.”

  38. Anatomy of Australopithecines David Catchpoole, Ph.D., “New evidence: Lucy was a knuckle-walker”, www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4256news5-5-2000.asp “…anatomist Dr Charles Oxnard has shown that the big toe actually sticks out as in chimpanzees.”

  39. Summary • Evolutionists ignore the scientific evidence • Evolutionists create misleading pictures in textbooks to support evolution • Evolutionists practice censorship • The scientific evidence supports Lucy was an extinct type of chimpanzee

  40. If we all descended from two people, where did all the races come from?

  41. Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

  42. Melanin

  43. Eye Shapes

  44. What Really Happened?

  45. Genesis 11:1, 4 Now the earth had one language and one speech. And they said, “come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

  46. Genesis 11:8-9 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because the Lord confused the language of all the earth;…

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