From the BBC:
Two hominid fossils discovered in Kenya are challenging a long-held view of human evolution.
According to the article,the hominid Homo habilis was previously thought to have evolved into the more advanced Homo erectus, which evolved into us.
Now, habilis and erectus are thought to be sister species that overlapped in time.
“Their co-existence makes it unlikely that Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis,” said co-author Professor Meave Leakey, palaeontologist and co-director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.
It is still widely believed by evolutionists that the Homo sapien (modern man) evolved from Homo erectus.
The new Homo habilis find was dated to nearly 1.44 million years ago.
Yet, here’s an interesting Q&A from the Creation Evidence Museum in Glenrose:
Q: If fossils are dated, by Carbon 14 decay, to be millions of years old how can homo sapiens be contemporary with a species such a ‘carcharodon megalodon’ or any other prehistoric creature?
Answer: Acceptance of the Gap Theory or any other compromise position between the divinely-inspired creation account of Genesis and the fallible evolutionary assumptions of man is really a question of ultimate authority–God’s Word or man’s word (see Rom. 3:4).
In response to the above question, let me state the scientific truths that: (1) the Carbon-14 dating method is not used–especially by evolutionists(!)–to date fossils which they would consider millions of years old, because it is accurate only to about 4,500 years ago (the calibration range given by the bristlecone pine tree) due to C-14’s relatively short half-life of 5,730 years; and (2) no fossil has ever been scientifically proven empirically to be millions of years old. These supposed absolute dates are founded upon well-known and publicized errors which plague all radiometric-dating techniques, including the unobserved assumptions of no original daughter isotope, a constant decay rate, and a closed system (i.e., nothing entering in or leaching out of the rock sample at all).
David V. Bassett, M.S.
CEM Staff Writer
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss…
God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature so they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth.”
God created human beings; he created them godlike, reflecting God’s nature.
He created them male and female.
God blessed them:
“Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.”
