Christians and/or creationists, did you know about Homo Erectus..?

Question

H. erectus existed between 1.8 million and 300,000 years ago. Like habilis, the face has protruding jaws with large molars, no chin, thick brow ridges, and a long low skull, with a brain size varying between 750 and 1225 cc. Early erectus specimens average about 900 cc, while late ones have an average of about 1100 cc (Leakey 1994). The skeleton is more robust than those of modern humans, implying greater strength. Body proportions vary; the Turkana Boy is tall and slender (though still extraordinarily strong), like modern humans from the same area, while the few limb bones found of Peking Man indicate a shorter, sturdier build. Study of the Turkana Boy skeleton indicates that erectus may have been more efficient at walking than modern humans, whose skeletons have had to adapt to allow for the birth of larger-brained infants (Willis 1989). Homo habilis and all the australopithecines are found only in Africa, but erectus was wide-ranging, and has been found in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

There is evidence that erectus probably used fire, and their stone tools are more sophisticated than those of habilis.

Did you know this..?

Answer 1

yes .. i know how they put that skeleton together also ... by glueing small fragments of bone together collected over a few square miles then shaping it into a form that guaranteed an article in national geographic and the next grant ... same with cromagnon man and java man ..

Answer 2

In their enthusiasm to prove evolution, scientists also have often grasped at straws which have turned out to be false. For years, one of the most famous human evolution links was “Java Man,” scientifically called Pithecanthropus erectus, which means “erect-walking ape-man.” Dubois discovered a few skull fragments and some teeth in the river gravel and a femur leg bone at a point 50 feet away. Most experts later confirmed that the skull fragments and femur did not belong to the same individual. The fossil records in many cases are so problematic that it is difficult to draw any firm conclusions from them.

Answer 3

Alleged Evolutionary Ancestors Coexisted with Modern Humans
by Marvin L. Lubenow, M.S., Th.M.

Shock waves are reverberating through the halls of evolution at the recent redating of the Java Solo (Ngandong Beds) Homo erectus fossil skulls. These alleged evolutionary ancestors of modern humans were assumed to be old. The new data—a maximum of 46,000 years before the present (YBP) with a probable date of 27,000 YBP—strongly suggests that Homo erectus coexisted with anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) long after Homo erectus was supposed to have become extinct. These finds conflict with the concept of human evolution.

The discovery was reported in Science, 13 December 1996, by a team headed by Carl Swisher III and G. H. Curtis of the Berkeley Geochronology Center. They dated two fossil sites in central Java, the Solo (Ngandong) site and the Sambungmacan site using two different dating methods, electron spin resonance and mass spectrometric U-series. Through this project, Swisher and his group were seeking new evidence for one of the most vexing problems in anthropology—the origin of modern humans.

Since their discovery over 60 years ago, the Solo fossil skulls have troubled evolutionists. The problem is that they have a clear Homo erectus morphology (shape) but their geological context seemed to demand a very late date. Evolution cannot tolerate this combination. Although this same combination of erectus-like fossils with a very late date exists in Australia, evolutionists solved the problem there by arbitrarily calling those erectus-like fossils Homo sapiens. This semantic solution could not be applied to the Java Solo fossils because most paleoanthropologists had already agreed upon their Homo erectus status before the very recent date was determined.

Between 1931 and 1933, a Dutch team found human cranial remains of 12 individuals in a 1/2-meter-thick sandstone deposit by the Solo River. Two human leg bones were also found. Although the site was only 50 by 100 meters square, over 25,000 vertebrate fossil fragments were also found. Between 1976 and 1980, Gadjah Mada University (Java) excavated an adjacent 25 by 14 meter area recovering human cranial remains of two more individuals some human pelvic fragments, various human artifacts, and an additional 1200 vertebrate fossils. The human fossils recovered are not complete skulls, but are called calvaria, calottes, and cranial fragments. (A calvarium is a skull without the bones of the face or lower jaw. A calotte is just the top of the skull.)

Since their initial discovery, every aspect of the interpretation of these Solo fossils has been controversial. Early on, it was obvious that the Mesolithic cultural assemblage found in association with the fossils (which Kenneth Oakley called the "bone industry of Azilian facies") would allow a date of 10,000 YBP or less, since Australian aborigines continued to live at an essentially Mesolithic cultural level until recently. 1

Evolutionists, seeing how awkward such a late date would be for the theory of human evolution, responded to the cultural evidence by claiming that the human fossils and the artifacts were not in association and were not from the same stratigraphic levels. This "after the fact" charge flies in the face of direct eye-witness testimony. While it is true that the fossils were found before many modern excavation techniques were in place, the Dutch Geological Survey was in charge of the entire operation. The famed paleoanthropologist, G. H. R. von Koenigswald, was on hand many times, saw Skull VI (Ngandong 7) and Skull VIII (Ngandong 11) in situ, excavated both of them, and described the cultural items found with the skulls.

Read the rest @ http://icr.org/article/415/

Answer 4

My only question to you is "How do you know?" Why do you put so much faith into these obscure things, which may very well be untrue, but will totally refuse to believe God, or even believe IN God? I really don't understand. We weren't there 1.8 million years ago, and we have no idea what the earth was like, if it even existed. We can't reliably put together a proper wardrobe for 100 years ago, and you want to just go off the deep end and tell me what life was like 1.8 million years ago??!!

Answer 5

Yep.
Studied it too.
The skeletons found have close resemblance to South American tribes. So close that some archaeologists were amazed there was little difference in the skeletal structures.
It skewed the time line.
What is you point?

Get A Grip.

Answer 6

Did you know that the Earth was only created some 6,000 years ago? There is some really fascinating, scientific information on this. Carbon dating assumes conditions from the present have always been constant in the past, hence the mis-information in the evolutionist scientific community.

Answer 7

LOL