And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Genesis 1:26
"Some of the differences between ape and human brains are reflected
in
the bumps and furrows of the brain surface. And the overlying skull
bone will reflect some of this pattern. So, without fossil brains to
study, ‘human evolution’ researchers rely on casts of the inside of skulls (endocasts).
On this basis, Ponce de León et al. recently claimed the Dmanisi Homo erectus
individuals “largely reflect a great ape pattern of frontal lobe
organization” (in a part of the brain overlapping the human ‘language’
area). They also claimed frontal lobes in an older erectus specimen were more ‘primitive’ (less human) than later erectus specimens.
Creationists generally think Homo erectus fossils were fully human. Even some evolutionists think they are the same species as us.
Actually, there are membranes and fluid between the skull bone and
brain surface, so skull impressions from the brain’s patterns will be
very incomplete and variable. On the lateral frontal lobe surface in
living humans, including the language area, these patterns vary widely,
Similar variation likely occurred in erectus humans.
Creationist brain expert Dr Peter Line says: “All this makes
interpretation of endocasts exceedingly difficult. Claims of ‘primitive’
brains go way beyond the evidence.” Evolutionist Choi writes:
Much remains controversial about reconstructing the organization of ancient brains from skulls, cautions paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood … it can prove challenging deducing how the insides of fossil braincases reflected bumps and grooves on the brain’s surface … .
So,
we don’t even know that these unique endocast patterns were actual
brain markings. Even if they were, the Dmanisi skulls studied are some
of the smallest of any erectus specimens (possibly from
pathology). So rather than reflecting underlying ‘primitivity’,
they may
simply show the different way in which the developing brain folds
within a smaller space."
CMI
