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The Creation NarrativePart 3 – The Creation of Man
byDavid C. Bossard19thPsalm.org
LECTURE PART THREETHE CREATION OF MAN
Creation of Man
The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings--- Three lines of evidence:
• Cave Art• Tools and artifacts• Fossil bones and skeletons
--- As we go, look for Human activity.What sets humans apart?
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LECTURE PART THREETHE CREATION OF MAN
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings• What Sets Humans Apart?
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Painted by a Human?Font de Gaume Cave
Male Reindeer Caressing Femaleca. 19,000 BP, Magdelenian Era
Cave discovered in 1901
Chavet Cave artBison 30,340±570 BPHorses 26,980±420 BPLions date ?? BPCave discovered in 1995.
LECTURE PART THREETHE CREATION OF MAN
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings• Lascaux Astronomy – Hall of Bulls
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LECTURE PART THREETHE CREATION OF MAN
Creation of Man
Lascaux Astronomy
5… but what Is this line?Pleiades …Orion's Belt … Taurus/Hyades …
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LECTURE PART THREETHE CREATION OF MAN
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings• Lascaux "Astronomy"
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LECTURE PART THREETHE CREATION OF MAN
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings• Lascaux "Astronomy"
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LECTURE PART THREETHE CREATION OF MAN
Creation of Man
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Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings Fossil tools – stone, bone, wood, etc.
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Use of tools:In the Genes
or Learned behavior?
Monarch MigrationMust be in the genes!
Neanderthals:Mousterian 300,000–30,000 BP
Aterian: 80,000-40,000 BPTool use?
Genes? Innovative? Rote?
"It has often been said that no animal uses any tools."Charles Darwin, Descent of Man (1874)
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings Fossil tools – stone, bone, wood, etc.
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Facts to keep in mind…• Tools are not uniquely human or even hominid• There is an extensive fossil record of tools showing
gradual advances over time- At what point do they indicate human activity?
A simple pointflaked from flint
(Mousterian 300,000-30,000 BP
Wooden spear cut/shaped from log(Schöningen 380,000-400,000 BP, discovered ca. 1995)
scraper spear headAterian Tang Tools
(N. Africa, 80,000-40,000 BP)
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings Fossil tools – stone, bone, wood, etc.
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Chatelperronian tools35,000-29,000 BP Gravettian Tools
32,000-22,000 BPAurignacian Tools40,000-26,000 BP
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings Fossil tools – stone, bone, wood, etc.
Summary:
• Evidence of Sustained Rational Innovation doesnot appear until 40,000 BP with the Cro-Magnons.
• The Stone tools of Neanderthals showed only minor innovation over vast periods of time.
Creation of Man
A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings Skeletal Fossil Evidence
Creation of Man Skeletal Fossil Evidence
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(A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern(B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 Ma(C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 Ma(D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 Ma(E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 Ma(F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 Ma(G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 Ma
(H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 Ma(I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man," 300,000 - 125,000 BP(J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 BP(K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 BP(L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 BP(M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 BP(N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern
Source: Dr. Douglas Theobald, © 2000 Smithsonian Institution Carl Drews, Transitional Fossils of Hominid Skulls.See also Wikipedia's List of Human Evolution Fossils.
Creation of Man
Skulls: Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and Modern Human
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Chimp & Human Pharynx
Neanderthal & Human Pharynx
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Skeletons: Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and Modern Human
Why Neanderthals are not considered Human:(Ongoing – lots of info in the past 5 years)
DNA evidence:• Genetic DNA
96-99% match (depending on whom you ask!)• Mitochondrial DNA (comes from mother only)
-- Neanderthal mtDNA "half-way between human and chimp"
Warning: • These Percentages are just glosses –really need the details!• Human genes "from Neanderthals" is another gloss! Again, need the details!
CONCLUDE: Humans likely did not mate with Neanderthals. (some say they didn't even co-exist! I think they may have.)
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CONCLUSIONS:• Summary of the Creation Narrative
- The Silent Voice- The Four Geneses
• Big Bang• Creation of First Life (Bacteria)• Creation of Eukaryotes• Creation of Man
- The Four Paradoxes• Combinatoric Paradox• Eigen Paradox• Levinthau Paradox• Regulatory Paradox
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CONCLUSIONS:• Creation of Man
All lines of evidence indicate that modern humans first appeared 40,000 – 30,000 BP.
Cave Art: Definite human activity by 32,000 BPTools: Notable lack of innovation prior to thisBones: Neanderthals not human ancestors.
The Genesis Creation AccountPart 3 – The Creation of Man
Preliminary Comment(not a part of the talk)
Supplement to Slide 10: Hominid Skull locations
Creation of Man -- SUPPLEMENTARY SLIDE
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A. The Scientific Evidence for Human Beginnings Remark on Evolutionary Rates of Change
Remarks on Generation Counts.-- Chimps to Humans (100,000-200,000 generations)
-- 35 million single nucleotide changes-- 5 million insertion/deletions-- Chromosomal rearrangements (24 to 23)
-- Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon (8,000 generations)?-- Cro-Magnon to Human (2,000 generations)?-- Ur to Modern Human (200-300 generations)?
Comparison on Generation Counts-- E-Coli (20 minutes): 100,000 generations in 4 years-- Cyanobacteria (1 day): 100,000 generations in 275 yrs.
• Since first life (3.9 Ba): 1-2 trillion generations
"Realize of course that the 10,000-100,000 time window for the emergence of homo sapiens is a mere blink of time in which profound changes occurred. How could this possibily have been accounted for by natural, undirected change?"
Ian Tattersall, Masters of the Planet, (2012)
