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“Early Man”
Gerald Lenner, Ph.D. November 17, 2010 NJBibleScience.org
Talk Outline
• Review • The Short Story - A Tale of Two Buckets • False Ancestors of Man • Candidate Ancestors - Neanderthals - Australopithecines - Homo erectus • No Ancestral Tree for Humans • Biblical / Secular Anthropology
2 NJBibleScience.org Three Strikes and You’re Out !
Cambrian The Theory of Evolution Explosion
4.5 Billion 3.5 Bya 2.0 Bya 1.0 0.6 present
Earth “Organic Soup” Photosynthetic Animals Man Formed Plants 4 Mya
How did How did life life begin ? evolve ?
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Theoretical Evolution of Man
4 NJBibleScience.org Cambrian Explosion Example
Trilobites
5 NJBibleScience.org Gap Example: Fish to Amphibian
Amphibian
Fish
6 NJBibleScience.org Terrestrial Vertebrates
Evolution Creation
Time
Morphology Morphology
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The Short Story A Tale of Buckets – Apes and Men
8 NJBibleScience.org Apes & Man
Both apes and man have distinctive anatomy
9 NJBibleScience.org The Short Story
APES HUMANS Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813 Australopithecus africanus Skull Sts 5 "Mrs. Ples”
Cro-Magnon Skull
Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48
Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406
Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Australopithecus afarensis Chapelle -aux-Saints Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1 Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA 10 NJBibleScience.org
False Ancestors of Man
11 NJBibleScience.org Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown man)
Discovered 1910-12 in Sussex England. Consisted of an orangutan jaw with filed teeth and a human skull cap. It was an intentional hoax and accepted until 1953.
12 NJBibleScience.org Nebraska man (Hesperopithecus haroldcookii) Based on a single tooth found in 1922 by Harold Cook in western Nebraska. Later it turned out to be from an extinct pig !
13 NJBibleScience.org Ramapithecus
Discovered 1932 in India, Consisted of teeth and jaw fragments, Now accepted as an extinct orangutan
BOGUS ANCESTOR
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Candidate Ape Men: Neanderthals Australopithecines Homo erectus
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Neanderthals
16 NJBibleScience.org Neanderthals
First discovered in1856. Evidence of tool use, ritualistic burial of their dead, and jewelry. Now regarded as human.
17 NJBibleScience.org Neanderthals
Tools
Jewelry
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Australopithecines
19 NJBibleScience.org Australopithecines
Australopithecus africanus EXTINCT Skull Sts 5 "Mrs. Ples” APES
Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48
Australopithecus aethiopicus Skull KNM-WT 17000
Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406 Australopithecus afarensis 20 Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA Skull "Lucy" NJBibleScience.org A Famous Australopithecine Australopithecus afarensis - “Lucy” as in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
21 NJBibleScience.org Laetoli Footprints
Discovered in 1976 by Mary Leakey, dated to be 3.5 million years old – the time of the australopithecines but are fully human in appearance !
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Homo erectus
23 NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus 280 individual fossils
• morphologically similar to humans • 40 out 83 sites have stone tools, 8 controlled fire • 1 burial, 1 cremation, human carving, shelters, etc.
24 NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus
Homo Modern erectus Similar to man modern humans below the neck
25 NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus - Java man (Pithecanthropus erectus) Found by laborers for Eugene Dubois in 1891 near Trinil, Java. Based on a skull cap and femur found 50 ft. away. At the time of the discovery, he also found two human skulls nearby that he did not reveal.
26 NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus
Homo erectus Java man Skull Sangiran 17 BH-018
Homo erectus Skull - Tattersall / Sawyer Recreation 27 NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus tools
When “Hand Axe” is thrown like a discuss it lands knife edge side 93% of the time
28 NJBibleScience.org Cranial Sizes
Homo erectus and Neanderthals may be the same
Homo Neanderthals erectus
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Putting It All Together
30 NJBibleScience.org Pre-men Fossil Catalogs ?
The question is why is there not more work done in pre-men Systematics ? The last catalog of fossil was made in 1976. At that time the following fossilized individuals were found – roughly 4000; Africa 1,390 (1976) Europe and USSR 1,516 (1969,1970) Americas, Asia, 1,092 (1974) Australia Marvin Lubenow estimates the current total to be 7000 in (2004);
31 NJBibleScience.org A Class Exercise Can the lineage of man be found in the scientific literature?
Each of the 30 college students were given 5 “pre-men” fossils Rules: 1) Minimum 8 hours of research 2) At 5 evolutionist sources / no creationist material 3) Find the date 4) Find the category (Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Neanderthal, australopithecine) When the students put the evolutionists’ results together the theory of evolution was falsified !
32 Homo sapiens NJBibleScience.org Human Family Tree ?
Homo erectus No clear ancestor path
Australopithecines
33 Homo Homo Australo- sapiens erectus pithecines NJBibleScience.org Evolutionary Show-Stopper (In detail)
Humans, Homo erectus, and Australopithecines lived at the same time !
34 Homo Homo Australo- Neander. sapiens erectus pithecines NJBibleScience.org Evolutionary Show-Stopper (Simplified)
Humans, Neanderthals, Homo erectus, Homo Habilis, and Australopithecines lived at the same time !
35 NJBibleScience.org Secular Anthropology
Intelligent and capable
Cave man
36 NJBibleScience.org Biblical Anthropology Intelligent Gen 4:17 Cain builds city named after son Enoch and Gen 4:19 Jabel invents harp & flute Gen 4:22 Tubal-cain foundry with bronze and iron capable creation
Turn “stupid”
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Summary
38 NJBibleScience.org The Missing Link ?
APES HUMANS Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813 Australopithecus africanus Skull Sts 5 "Mrs. Ples”
Cro-Magnon Skull
Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48
Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406
Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Australopithecus afarensis Chapelle -aux-Saints Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1 Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA 39