Monday, May 3, 2021

Creation Moment 5/4/2021 - Anagenesis

"Anagenesis is an evolutionary term meaning “speciation,” a process
in which numerous species originate along a single line of descent. 
 
Since 1996 (and well before), the “ancestor-descendant sequence” (anagenesis) of human evolution has been plagued with the problem of the child being born before the parent—or grandparent. Satisfying progressions from ape-like creatures to more human-like beings were—and are—constantly challenged by serious out-of-place fossil discoveries. Examples abound, such as two species of Australopithecus.

We further demonstrate that A. anamensis and Australopithecus afarensis differ more than previously recognized and that these two species overlapped for at least 100,000 years—contradicting the widely accepted hypothesis of anagenesis.…Most importantly, MRD [a newly discovered cranium] shows that despite the widely accepted hypothesis of anagenesis A. afarensis did not appear as a result of phyletic [evolutionary] transformation.

In 2015, evolutionists introduced a fossil named Homo naledi that was immediately embraced as a human ancestor. Being comfortable with a date of three million years, “Prof [Lee] Berger [said] naledi could be thought of as a ‘bridge’ between more primitive bipedal primates and humans.” But alas, it has now been shown to be much younger than previously thought, overlapping with anatomically modern humans.

And there’s more bad news. In 2002 Sahelanthropus tchadensis was discovered and declared an early human relative, but it “may not have been a hominin at all, but rather was more closely related to other apes like chimps.”

When we turn to more recent human ancestors, we see they are 100% people. Secular scientist Michael Denton stated:

Neanderthals and Denisovans must be classed as subspecies or races of Homo sapiens, and this would suggest that they may also have had language and relatively high intelligence.

Language and relatively high intelligence? Most of your neighbors would fit that description.

Vain efforts by evolutionary naturalists continue as they attempt to connect people with chimpanzees and shattered hominid fossils. Regardless, the message of the Bible is clear—man has been created in God’s image since the beginning." ICR
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... Genesis 1:26