“Early Man”

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Gerald Lenner, Ph.D.November 17, 2010

“Early Man”

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Talk Outline

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• 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

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Cambrian 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

Three Strikes and You’re Out !

How did life begin ?

How did life evolve ?

How did

we get

irreducible

complexity

?

The Theory of Evolution ape-

men

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You are here

Theoretical Evolution of Man

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Cambrian Explosion Example

Trilobites

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Gap Example: Fish to Amphibian

Amphibian

Fish

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Terrestrial Vertebrates

Evolution Creation

Morphology Morphology

Time

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The Short StoryA Tale of Buckets – Apes and

Men

NJBibleScience.org Apes & Man

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Both apes and man have distinctive anatomy

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The Short Story

Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48

Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406

Australopithecus africanus Skull Sts 5

"Mrs. Ples”

Australopithecus afarensis

Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA

Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813

Cro-Magnon Skull

Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1

Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Chapelle -aux-Saints

HUMANS APES

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False Ancestors of Man

NJBibleScience.org Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown man)

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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.

BOGUS

ANCESTOR

NJBibleScience.org Nebraska man

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Based on a single tooth found in 1922 by Harold Cook in western Nebraska. Later it

turned out to be from an extinct pig !

(Hesperopithecus haroldcookii)

BOGUS

ANCESTOR

NJBibleScience.org Ramapithecus

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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:

NeanderthalsAustralopithecines

Homo erectus

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Neanderthals

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First discovered in1856. Evidence of tool use, ritualistic

burial of their dead, and jewelry. Now regarded as human.

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Tools

Jewelry

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Australopithecines

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Australopithecines

Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48

Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406

Australopithecus africanus Skull Sts 5 "Mrs. Ples”

Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA

EXTINCT APES

Australopithecus aethiopicus Skull KNM-WT 17000

Australopithecus afarensis Skull "Lucy"

NJBibleScience.org A Famous Australopithecine

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Australopithecus afarensis - “Lucy” as in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”

NJBibleScience.org Laetoli Footprints

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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

NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus

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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.

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Similar to modern humans below the neck

Homo erectus

Modern man

NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus - Java man

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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.

(Pithecanthropus erectus)

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Homo erectus Skull - Tattersall / Sawyer Recreation

Homo erectus Skull Sangiran 17 BH-018

Java man

NJBibleScience.org Homo erectus tools

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When “Hand Axe” is thrown like a discuss it lands knife edge side 93% of the

time

NJBibleScience.org Cranial Sizes

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Homo erectus

Homo erectus and Neanderthals may be the same

Neanderthals

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Putting It All Together

NJBibleScience.org Pre-men Fossil Catalogs ?

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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, Australia

1,092(1974)

Marvin Lubenow estimates the current total to be 7000 in (2004);

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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 !

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Human Family Tree ?

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No clear ancestor path

Homo sapiens

Australopithecines

Homo erectus

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Evolutionary Show-Stopper(In detail)

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Humans,Homo erectus, andAustralopithecineslived at the same

time !

Homo sapiens

Australo- pithecines

Homo erectus

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Evolutionary Show-Stopper (Simplified)

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Humans,Neanderthals, Homo erectus,

Homo Habilis, andAustralopithecineslived at the same

time !

Homo sapiens

Australo- pithecines

Homo erectus

Neander.

NJBibleScience.org Secular Anthropology

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Intelligent and capable

Secular Pattern

Cave man

Evolution

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Intelligent and

capable creation

Biblical Pattern

Turn “stupid”

Turn away from God

Gen 4:17 Cain builds city named after son Enoch

Gen 4:22 Tubal-cain foundry with bronze and ironGen 4:19 Jabel invents harp & flute

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Summary

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The Missing Link ?

Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48

Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406

Australopithecus africanus Skull Sts 5

"Mrs. Ples”

Australopithecus afarensis

Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA

Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813

Cro-Magnon Skull

Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1

Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Chapelle -aux-Saints

HUMANS APES