Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools... Romans 1:22
"Out of Africa model (OoAM) of human evolution is in crisis.
Subsequently, a study by a group of paleoanthropologists, on two
fossilized human crania from Greece, reported that the modern-type
cranium (Apidima 1), ‘dated’ to around 210 thousand years ago (ka),
lived about 40,000 years earlier than the Neandertal-like Apidima 2
cranium. Hence, Homo sapiens appeared in Europe supposedly over
150,000 years earlier than thought. Not giving up on the OoAM
altogether, the authors said their “findings support multiple dispersals
of early modern humans out of Africa.”
However, the dating of the crania is as confused as the OoAM. The two
crania were found embedded in the same breccia, separated by a few
inches, yet were ‘dated’ 40,000 years apart! They were initially dated
to the same age (over 160 ka), but the difference in morphology led to
doubts they were the same age (circular reasoning). Josh Davis quoted
co-author Chris Stringer as saying: “When we submitted the first draft
of our paper for possible publication, the reviewers were naturally
sceptical that there was a modern human fossil from Greece found
alongside an early Neandertal fossil, with both of them dating from at
least 160,000 years ago.”
According to Stringer, they then “conducted further analyses and
dating work, which produced even more surprises” (i.e. the dating
results in our first paragraph).
However, the dating was far from convincing, as described by Lizzie
Wade: “Warren Sharp, a uranium dating expert at the University of
California, Berkeley, points out that the Apidima 1 samples actually
returned dates ranging from more than 300,000 years old to less than
40,000 years old.”
Wade quotes Sharp as saying “You have this huge
spread of apparent ages, and you don’t know if any of them are any
good.” Indeed so." CMI
