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Does “Full Humanity” Predate Homo Sapiens? (Part 5 - Hominids)

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

In Does “Full Humanity” Predate Homo Sapiens? (Part 4 - Pre-Adamism), I quoted part of an interchange between Stephen Jones and Glenn Morton, where SJ acknowledged Anamensis existence 4.2 mya.  Here it is for your convenience:
GM: As I have mentioned, there are a few fossils which have Homo-like affinities from 4.2 MYR ago. You seem to forget that.
(see Brigitte Senut and Christine Tardieu, “Functional Aspects of Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Limb Bones: Implications for Taxonomy and phylogeny”,in Eric Delson, editor, Ancestors: The Hard Evidence, pp 193-201)
SJ: I don’t “forget that” at all. As Glenn himself says, they are “fossils which have Homo-like affinities from 4.2 MYR ago”. They …

Does “Full Humanity” Predate Homo Sapiens? (Part 4 - Pre-Adamism)

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

A little over two years ago, I started writing a series on whether Full Humanity predates Homo Sapiens.  It was basically a review of Glenn Morton’s theories on humanity.  I found (and continue to find) them fascinating.  He wrote of pre-homo sapien humanoid species that manifested features that would appear to us as being uniquely human.  Making the case has allowed him to suggest that Adam and Eve were alive 5.5 million years ago, and that Noah’s flood was shortly thereafter.  Though I am not inclined to agree at this time, the arguments seemed reasonable enough to review.  I then wrote the following three articles.  Now, please keep in mind that my thinking haschanged a bit since then.  In particular, …

Genesis 2:4-7 - Moses Recorded the Evolution of Man (Part 3)

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
As discussed in Genesis 2:4-7 - Moses Recorded the Evolution of Man (Part 1) and Genesis 2:4-7 - Moses Recorded the Evolution of Man (Part 2), God created man from the dust of the ground, starting 4.5 billion years ago.  He then “finished” perhaps as recently as 10,000-15,000 years ago, just before modern agriculture took off. To be specific, that is when God breathed …

Genesis 2:4-7 - Moses Recorded the Evolution of Man (Part 2)

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

In Genesis 2:4-7 - Moses Recorded the Evolution of Man (Part 1), I showed how the following verses accurately describe the world, about 4.4 - 4.5 billion years ago:
4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; …

Genesis 2:4-7 - Moses Recorded the Evolution of Man (Part 1)

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man …