Common ancestors and evolution quiz for anyone willing to take a stab.?

Question

Archaeological evidence suggests we (homo sapiens) shared the planet with at least 2 other human-like creatures (homo erectus and neanderthal), that is, our existences overlapped here on earth. Somehow we won the lottery and avoided extinction.

If we descended from a common ancestor, as science believes, how does the fundamentalist creationist get around the fact that 3 different species of "human-like" creatures existed at the same time? Or that we were last to appear on the scene?

Curious about your thoughts.

Answer 1

I'm not sure there's any evidence that Homo erectus "shared the planet" - ie was a contemporary - of Homo sapiens: there is, in fact, some speculation that H. erectus was an ancestor. I understand the youngest H. erectus fossils are of the order of a million years old - much older than the earliest H. sapiens.

You are right about H. neanderthalis, though: this group didn't go extinct until around 24,000 years ago, by which stage H. sapiens was well established, and the two species coexisted in Eurasia for thousands of years.

Answer 2

The Bible never indicated there were not other hominids before during and after the Garden of Eden.

The creation story was just Moses recording all the stories he had heard. (Have you seen roots)

Now back to the Bible. It is a genealogy of the Jewish Blood line from Adam to Jesus. - Why don't fundamentalist realize that. The proof is there. All the name in the Bible are Jewish names. No Bubba Preacher can trace his bloodline back to Adam, (unless he had an ancestor actually listed in the Begetting section.)

Yet they taught us in Sunday school that we all came from Adam and Eve. - (Even the Chinese? - said I )

your research sure explains who Cain married in the land of Nod.

Now, in the bible days everyone knew there were non Adam derived people in the world. There are about 10 places in the Bible where the Adam bloodline, fought against, co-mingled with, and inter married with these "other" people.

Yet the "fundies" just blow past what the Bible actually tells us about these other "hominids" of differing stages of evolution.

I believe in the Bible for what it is. It is a History of Jewish people.

I am a Christian. Meaning I follow the instructions of Jesus on how to please God, and how to get to Heaven, and how to get the Holy Spirit to witness that I will go to Heaven.

But I am constantly shocked by those who read an English translation and say it is the word of God. It is words about God and about Jesus and about wisdom, and a lot of things. But, it has been corrupted so much it is rather difficult to understand at times. - This is a way:

The overall theme of the Bible, and the overall theme of God is:

Harmony is harmony. Disharmony is the only sin against God. If any verse conflicts with Harmony, be very suspicious of corruption and run straight to a Hebbrew Greek study Bible.

Answer 3

Look in the mirror! Look at your DNA! Over 6 billion people on this planet, yet no two strands of DNA are exactly the same. Look at the stars, and all the other planets, yet none would exist without ALL of the others. Yet if all the other planets were created 1 by 1 from a big explosion, then all of the gravitational pulls would have been different and no life would be possible. Change the Earth's orbit by just 1 degree, and life would not be possible. To me, this means they were all created at the exact same time and placed where they are.

Lets look at evolution. Have you ever, in your whole life, seen anything that was tattered and jagged and warped and broken, move closer and closer towards order of its own accord? Yet this is what the books teach. It is as if they are saying that you can go to a junk yard, and pick out the most beat up and crushed vehicle, place in a stick of lit dynamite, and end up with a brand spanking new Chrysler 300 C SRT 8 after the explosion.

Chaos does not move towards order. You cannot take the finest swiss watch and completely take apart all of its gears, place it in a paper bag and shake it until it becomes a fine swiss watch again. The odds of this happening are more favorable than for evolution to be true. The odds of a tornado to fly through an automobile junk yard and come out the other side with a completly functional Boeing 747, fueled and flying are better than for evolution to be true.

Yet the schoolastic community tries to pass this off as true. Just to try and remove God from everything. Like saying it is illegal to post the 10 commandments in the classrooms because our children might be encouraged to meditate on them and do them. Yet, using this same logic should it not be illegal for the schoolastic community to post homework on the boards, because our children might be encouraged to meditate on them and to do them? How horrible it is to have good and decent children who respect their parents and believe in God.

Why is all of this possible? Because if you remove the creator from the creation, all you have left is chaos.

Answer 4

The needed be conscious is "shows". do you already know WHAT grow for use to reach at those fashions? in case you go out and discover an incomplete decrease jaw bone, how do you tell what the different aspects of the animal from which it got here seem as though? something of the top? the size and style of the hands or legs? the torso? Scientifically, you won't be able to. Philosophically, you are able to in case you agree for the preconceived thought that this could be between the lacking links interior the evolution of guy from an apelike creature to sought after guy. i'm asserting merely that your use of the constructs of homo erectus and neanderthal are merely that: constructs according to philosophy and not technological awareness. In different words, around reasoning.

Answer 5

The differences in bone structure of skeletons found of people who lived long ago could be due to radiation released when sin caused the earth to fall into corruption causing malformations, disease, mutations etc. and babies born to those who are so affected. Also, the number of finds has to be considered. I’m no archeologist but to my very limited knowledge there exists less than 50 skeletons and parts of skeletons of “Neanderthal” in the hands of those who run museums and labs etc. And add to that the fact that radiocarbon dating is unreliable because it is based on two fallacies concerning C-14 and C-12. And the tendency of some to throw out data that doesn’t meet with the accepted view that man has evolved over the millennia has to be considered also.

Answer 6

Even today, you could get a huge variety of shapes and sizes of people. The so-called "evidence" for evolution is laughable.


Heidelberg Man - Built from a jaw bone that was conceded by many to be quite human. Nebraska Man - Scientifically built up from one tooth and later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig. Piltdown Man - The jawbone turned out to belong to a modern ape. Peking Man - 500,000 years old. All evidence has disappeared. Neanderthal Man - At the Int'l Congress of Zoology (1958) Dr. A. J. E. Cave Said his examination showed that the famous Neanderthal skeleton found in France over 50 years ago is that of an old man who suffered from arthritis. Cro-Magnon Man - One of the earliest and best established fossils is at least equal in physique and brain capacity to modern man...so what's the difference? Modern Man - This genius thinks we came from a monkey. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools - Romans 1:22

Answer 7

Allahu Akbar - I thought the gays came from Homo Erectus?

Answer 8

Human like and human are two different things. Show me the link between the two. Something scientist can't do.

Answer 9

where are all of the millions of skeletons it would have took to be our ancestors. all human skeletons can only be dated back only around 6000 or 7000 years and there are millions found everywhere you look.

Answer 10

good question. does the tiny skeleton they found and thought for awhile that it was a hobbit fit in that question too?