Saturday, December 29, 2012

Millions of these part two

I have left in color the four that we are going to be discussing.
I wrote a couple of days ago about some of the things that were wrong with this meme.  With over 400 shares and counting, let's visit another thing.  The man who posted the meme follows Answers in Genesis (AiG) on Facebook.  I don't know if he knows, but various people at AiG have claimed at times that the four individuals left in color were fully human.

Homo erectus is the gentleman to the left of the naked bearded man.   Homo erectus is almost universally recognized by AiG as being fully human. [1] [2]  Dr. Kurt Wise thinks they built the Tower of Babel.
Preserved in post-Flood sediments older than any Neanderthals and Hobbits are Homo erectus fossils.3 Aside from the skull, Homo erectus skeletons are virtually indistinguishable from modern humans, so the evidence indicates they are human. And, since humans did not disperse across the world until after Babel, the distribution of Homo erectus across the Old World (Java, China, Africa) suggests they not only date from after the Flood, they also date from after Babel. Homo erectus is thus not only the oldest human fossil we have following Babel but the only human fossil for some time after Babel. From this we infer that the Homo erectus form is probably what humans looked like at the time of Babel. [3] 
Dr. Dewitt's grouping
Homo habilis, the third from the right, generally is not considered to be human by AiG.  However there are some exceptions to that rule.  The habilis skull, KNM-ER 1470 is almost said to be human by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell. [4]  In "Baraminological Analysis Places Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, and Australopithecus sediba in the Human Holobaramin", Dr. Todd Charles Wood identified habilis as human.
[T]he dispersal of the human population from Babel would presumably have been led by H. habilis and H. rudolfensis, specimens of which appear stratigraphically lower than any other human species. [5]
Wood also placed an Australopith, Australopithecus sediba, in the human taxa.[5]  When the question of what is human is so up in the air, it is very disingenuous to mock the fossil record.  Four out of the six have been called human by Answers in Genesis.

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