nj b ible s cience.org gerald lenner, ph.d. november 17, 2010 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
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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When “Hand Axe” is thrown like a discuss it lands knife edge side 93% of the
time
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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);
NJBibleScience.org A Class Exercise
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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.
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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