Early “human” turns out to be only an ape.
Opinion
Early-human fossil turns out to be an ape
Discoverer changes mind on “earliest human in Asia”
By David Serd : June 21, 2009
In 1985, anthropologist Russell Ciochon and others wrote an article in the journal Nature claiming that a fossil jaw and teeth from Longgupo Cave in China were evidence that a new form of early human had inhabited China's Sichuan province 1.9 million years ago.
This caused a lot of excitement among evolutionists, the significance being twofold:
- This new type of human was said to be somewhere between Homo habilis and Homo erectus in its evolutionary development.
- The fossils apparently meant that humans had lived in Asia nearly a million years earlier than previously thought.
But as so often happens with dramatic evolutionary claims, this fossil has turned out to be much less significant.
In a paper in Nature this week, Russell Ciochon admits the fossil is not human at all. It never was. It is simply an ape fossil that has not yet been identified. Ciochon now calls it a “mystery ape”.
This past year hasn't been kind to evolutionists. Many who believe in ape-men were excited last August when two con-artists said they had captured a Bigfoot and were keeping it on ice in their freezer.
Before a press conference was held at which the Bigfoot hunters said they would prove they really had caught a Bigfoot, we announced on our Newsdesk page that this would turn out to be baloney. And sure enough it did. No creationists accepted the claim for a second, but it must have been uncomfortable for many who think that creatures can exist as part-ape and part-human to find out that this “Bigfoot” was just a gorilla costume in a block of ice.
More recently there was the Darwinius fossil — a supposed 47-million-year-old lemur-type animal that allegedly plugged the “missing link” gap between humans, apes and other primates. Its importance was far too overplayed at the media conference, and it was immediately gunned down by evolutionists themselves who said not only wasn't it a missing link, but it wasn't even a close relative of monkeys, apes, or humans.
And just this month scientists from Oregon State University blew up another long-standing evolutionary theory — the erroneously imaginative idea that birds have descended from dinosaurs.
And now one of the scientists who reported the “earliest new form of human in Asia” has admitted that further study has shown his Longgupo man to be Longgupo ape. He admits he made a mistake.
Where will it end? The famous Lucy ape fossil lost its status as a pre-human ancestor. Homo habilis and Homo rudofensis have turned out to be a jumble of fossils with only ape features. The Toumai fossil, the Neanderthals, the Hobbits of Indonesia, the Dmanisi fossils, can all be ruled out as candidates of ape-human evolution.
And so the list of evolutionary evidence to show that humans have come from some kind of ape or common ancestor keeps getting shorter, less clear, and less convincing.
I believe the reason is simple: Humans were created as humans in the beginning, and apes were created as apes. There is no link between the two to be found.
Sources:
- Nature 459, 910-911 (18 June 2009): The mystery ape of Pleistocene Asia
- Origins: Oldest Asian Hominins? Never Mind
- National Geographic (June 17, 2009) Early 'Human' Is Ape After All, Discoverer Decides
- Nature 378 No. 6554 (16 November 1995): Early Homo and associated artefacts from Asia
See also:
Humans have not descended from apes
or common ancestors
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