Which requires more faith, believe man evolved from Australopithecus 3million years ago, or 2million years ago

Question

3 million years ago or 2 million years ago, that is the question, wether or not Australopithecus Afracanus became Homo Habilus or Homo Erectus, how may I count the ways.


(Ok - the point is that we evolved, not really trying to be scientifically accurate with the lineage cause ITS A JOKE im trying to make and im not some biology major)

Answer 1

Y'know Jim, for an avowed atheist you sure spend a lot of time on the topic of religion. If it were me, I would think spending so much time on a subject one considers to be fanciful and make believe would be squandering precious time alotted to me.

At any rate, whether a joke or not, it is a question, and the only appropriate response from me would be to answer it.

At this time, there is a lot of suspicion that the Australopithecines were not directly ancestral to the genus homo - at least not the ones we know of, such as Robustus and Afarensis. Since Habilis is known to have existed 2.5 million years ago, it certainly would require a great deal of faith to believe that humans evolved from a two million year old australopithecine!

The recently discovered "Selam" fossil from 3.3 million years ago, shows that the Austalopithecines had really made only modest and incremental steps away from the proto-chimpanzee mold. Although they walked upright, they still had curved knuckles of a kind that would have permitted tree climbing and even some knuckle walking. The hyoid bone shows none of the speech-enabling modifications you see in Homo representatives such as the Neanderthals and ourselves. Their brains were chimp sized.

On the other hand, the very first member of genus Homo, Homo Habilis, shows that many of the human characteristics were well underway - a larger brain with an enhanced Broca area (suggesting the beginnings of the march towards speech), toolmaking, and a robust upright walking physiology that hints at the athletic distance runners humans would become. This kind of evolution had to have been underway for some time already.

So a three million year old date certainly doesn't require as much faith.

Answer 2

Actually Australopithecus Afracanus is Homo Habilus. The full name would be Homo Habilus Australopithecus Afracanus. With some of the modern finds we might not have come from Homo Habilus Australopithecus Afracanus but from some other "group" of Homo Habilus or maybe even some other Homo grouping altogether.

Answer 3

Both require an extreme amount of faith that I do not have. That is why I'm a christian. I don't believe in fairy tales. Whether the fairy tale is a kiss turning a frog into a prince, or millions of years turning a monkey into a prince. I believe monkeys, frogs and people were all made by God in there present forms

Answer 4

3 million years takes 50% more faith than 2 million.

Answer 5

I consider neither homo habilis nor homo erectus to be 'human'. So it would take an infinite amount of faith!

Show me the evolution to homo sapiens sapiens and you'll have my vote. :P

Answer 6

well, i dont exactly get what you are trying to say, but in my opinion " God created us" appears to be more real that the theory of evolution. there are too many unexplained phenomena in the theory itself. Have faith in yourself , and you will see the answer yourself . Good luck

Answer 7

Oh come on man the bible is only 3000 + years old, we cant be older than that

Answer 8

3 million. As we have been told many times, the carbon dating can be flawed, blah, blah, blah......

Answer 9

I can see that my question about creation vs. evolution inspired you :)) You should be more open minded, though ;)

Answer 10

A joke is not a question. REPORTED! Just kidding.