A recent skull find in Africa made many think that it somehow ‘proved evolution’.
by Carl Wieland

This article is from
Creation 24(4):51–53, September 2002

A million-year-old skull found in Ethiopia confirms the theory that modern man evolved from a single pre-human species that developed in Africa and migrated throughout the rest of the world … .’

That was the introduction to a CNN Internet article about the (then) latest alleged ape-man find. It concerned a so-called Homo erectus skull, details of which were published in Nature and announced throughout the world. The average reader of this Web introduction might think that this specimen is supposed to have somehow confirmed that people evolved from subhuman ancestors. But even evolutionists reading this would have to agree that this was not the point being made, in fact.

Bitter controversies rage between rival evolutionary camps over various allegedly prehuman bones. The candidates for our ancestry come and go, but each one is presented to the public as an indisputable ‘fact’. Creationists contend that the ‘earliest’ (ape-like) forms are simply the bones of extinct types of ape. Whereas the allegedly more ‘modern’ forms are simply variants of modern man.

The author(s) of the article, and the researchers cited, all commence their thinking, and all their interpretations of the facts, from within a framework in which one already believes that man evolved. After all, if they didn’t, then the only alternative would be to accept special creation, which is invariably (and inappropriately) ruled out beforehand.3

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Comment.; I have been posting articles concerning so-called human ancestors. Links between ape and man. I decided to post this as it mentions H. ergaster which was next on the list. Likely just imaginative taxonomy considering the similarities shared with H.erectus.