Anti-Evolution: Hominins Greetings.

My name is Gaston Bonenfant & today I will be defending the claim that the hominins provide evidence that suggests a creator & denies claims that humans have evolved from lesser apes. I will provide you with five topics that I will then elaborate on, & then conclude with a reassessment of my claims & hopefully your opinions too. To get things started, I would like to convince you that the fossil record for hominins is not a smooth evolutionary sequence in evolutionary ages, but overlap. In his book Bones of Contention, Marvin Lubenow points out that the various finds of different species are either varieties of true humans or non-humans like the australopithecines. SUPPORT: A group led by Svante Pblo analyzed a 379-unit sequence from an upper arm bone from a Neanderthal skeleton (~30k-100k y.o.) & found that it differed from modern humans in 22 36 places. Differences among modern humans are from 1 24 places. Lubenow points out that this is within the range of modern humans so they cant be considered a separate species. 2. My next point should begin to prove that we were created by a common designer. When you think about a framer & his creations or projects, you often see completely different outcomes whether it be a six story building or a childrens playhouse. But the starting materials are always the same. The framer will always need a hammer, nails, & wood supply. The building will also be structured similarly with braces in weak spots & anchors to make the structure sound. These things correlate to the biochemical pathways & structures for particular species. - If all organisms were totally different, wouldnt it look like there were several designers? Following the fact that we, as were the apes, created by a common designer, the sudden appearance of bipedalism should make you question the legitimacy of the evolution process. Along with large brain size, manual dexterity, & advanced culture, bipedalism constitutes one of the most important defining characteristics of humans. According to the known evolutionary example, an ape-like ancestor gave rise to both the ape & human lineages. This means that bipedal primates must have evolved from quadruped, knuckle-walking primates. One early explanation that has since been rejected, suggested that bipedalism was a precursor to the development of tools. However, archeological evidence shows that bipedalism existed 2 million years before tools were used. The only logical hypothesis is based on the transformation of East Africa from a woodland to a dry, desert-like environment. Bipedalism serves as a more energy efficient means of locomotion & gives the species the ability to carry things like food for 1.

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long distances. There is an extensive list of anatomical changes that are required to allow the transformation of a quadruped to a biped: Relocation of the spinal cord opening, restructuring of the inner ear bones, altered lower limbs, along with several other significant differences. If bipedalism was a result of natural-process biological evolution, it should occur slowly with very gradual changes, & have an apparent reason for change. Australopithecus anamensis, discovered in 1995 has been dated to 4.07 million years ago. This was, until the early 2000s, the most recent hominin that exhibited bipedalism. A team of paleontologists from UC Berkeley discovered fossil remains & assigned them to Ardipithecus ramidus stating that it walked erect. The fossils dated between 5.2 & 5.8 million years ago placing their appearance & the appearance of bipedalism coincidental to the first appearance of hominids. 4. My fourth point is to disprove a common misconception regarding the identical appearance of different species embryos. Up until 1997, through the year & still published in numerous textbooks, it is thought that because the embryo of numerous organisms appears identical during early periods of development, that should prove we come from one common ancestor. & leading off this, modern man has evolved from the hominins, which have evolved from older apes. In 1997, a study by Mike Richardson & his team, provided photographs of a large number of different embryos showing how different & distinct they were from each other. The embryos are so different in appearance that Ernst Haeckels, expounder of embryonic recapitulation in the 1860s to promote Darwins theory of evolution, drawings of the embryos, often used in todays textbooks, were made up from imaginary specimens. 5. The fifth & final topic I have to present is called Mitochondrial Eve. According to recent evidence based on mitochondrial DNA sequencing, it has been proposed that a small population of modern humans evolved in Africa about 150,000 years ago and spread throughout the world, replacing Homo Sapiens. This type of analysis deals with only the DNA passed on from the mother. The similarities indicate that all people on earth are descended from a single human female. Evolutionists contend that Mitochondrial Eve was one of a number of women living. T.J. Parsons, in the publication Nature Genetics, explains that mitochondrial DNA mutates far faster than previously thought. It places Mitochondrial Eve about 6,250 years ago compared to the Evolutionists proof that she lived 200,000 years ago.

To give a brief conclusion of my statements, I will begin with the first & proceed in the order given. - Hominids dont provide for a smooth transition from species to species leading to modern man. - All organisms try to answer & solve similar problems; the designer provided us with similar tools to solve those problems. - Recent discoveries place the emergence of bipedalism in hominins far to close for biological evolution to have enough time to logically proceed. - Although when glanced at can look similar, embryos actually are quite different. - Evidence supports one woman started the population.