Creation Moment 6/28/2021 - “It’s complicated” – the death rattle of a dying paradigm

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: 

the Lord shall have them in derision.

Psalm 2:4

 

"We will briefly comment on the latest flap in the media over a skull found in Israel that nobody knows quite what to do with. Without going into the weeds, here are the headlines from the usual suspects:

• Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the
  
  human story (New Scientist)
• New type of ancient human discovered in Israel (BBC News)
• A new type of Homo unknown to science: Dramatic discovery in Israeli excavation (Tel Aviv University via Science Daily)
• Unknown human ancestor unearthed in Israel. It had large teeth but no chin. (Live Science)
• Nesher Ramla Homo: New fossil discovery from Israel points to complicated evolutionary process (Binghamton University via Phys.org)

Readers can dive into the news articles for details, but it doesn’t matter, because in the EYKIW (everything-you-know-is-wrong) degree program at the university, it will all change again. Is this “Nesher Ramla Homo” an ancestor of Neanderthals? Then why did it know how to make stone tools just like those of modern humans? Did its group really live 140,000 years ago? Don’t ask, because the answer keeps changing. It’s hopeless to try to hit a moving target.

The find was announced on the Science Magazine website on June 24, 2021, a day prior to official publication. Commentators in the issue were just as confused as the scientists.

• Hershkovitz et al., “A Middle Pleistocene Homo from Nesher
  
  Ramla, Israel.” Science, 25 June 2021.
• Zaidner et al., “Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens.” Science, 25 June 2021.
• Andrew M. Sugden, “Middle Pleistocene Homo in the Levant.” Science, 25 June 2021.
• Marta Mirazón Lahr, “The complex landscape of recent human evolution.” Science, 25 June 2021.

For a taste of what the hubbub is all about, perceptive observers can watch the marketing video by Hershkovitz and his breathless techno-lackeys on YouTube, as long as they have their Baloney Detectors on. With cinematic music and imaginative artwork, the show, called “Dramatic discovery in Israeli excavation: A new type of prehistoric human,” parades images of the new skull and team members making a big deal of it, which is important for their careers. Actually, it blows away a century of assumptions about human evolution. Key quote by Hershkovitz:

When we look on the local hominids in Israel around 100,000 years ago, we see large morphological variability. In the past, we had difficulty in interpreting it, and we actually grouped all these hominids into a certain group which we called archaic Homo sapiens. Now we suggest that those are actually hybrids between the Nesher Ramla people on one side and and the Homo sapiens group on the other side.

In other words, those fake groupings like Homo ergaster and Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus could have belonged to one interacting, interbreeding human species. 

Another phrase for “large morphological variability” is “diversity

and inclusion.” Another word for “hybrids” among people who marry and have children and share their technology is “brothers and sisters.” These were all members of one human family. Evolutionists keep insisting on separating them into groups like the historical Darwin racists did (3 June 2021), trying to prove that natural selection is actually doing something. In this instance (probably smarting from their predecessors’ bad habits), the evolutionary paleoanthropologists resisted the urge to give it a new species name like “Homo hershkovitchensis” or something else.

In the video, Dr Yossi Zaidner sums up the status: “It’s clear that human evolution was much more complex than we thought before.” 

Rolf Quam of Binghamton University says in the Phys.org piece, “This is a complicated story, but what we are learning is that the interactions between different human species in the past were much more convoluted than we had previously appreciated.” After being wrong so many times, maybe it’s time to trash the story and start over.

“It’s complicated” – the death rattle of a dying paradigm...." CEH