Imagining that humans evolved from apelike creatures is quite a stretch – I’ve always thought so, at least. But now researchers are claiming that the pretty picture most of us have grown up with of a hunched-over apelike being morphing into a man with a briefcase isn’t accurate, either.
According to this news article, researchers found surprising fossils in Africa that seem to tell a different story about “our evolution.” The fossil found by paleontoloigst Maeve Leakey indicates that humans, Homo sapiens, could not have evolved from our first and oldest ancestor, Homo habilis.
A scientist quoted in the story says that the “old evolutionary cartoon…keeps getting proven wrong.”
Must I interject an obvious comment here? Perhaps we should look to the Source and Creator of ALL life for the truth about our origin (shall I say, back to Genesis?) instead of relying on fallible researchers and scientists who just can’t figure out what the real story is.
Does it not take even more FAITH to believe that we have evolved from a common ancestor that looked and behaved like an ape, yet the same species of apes from which we are claimed to share ancestry continue to live on the earth today? When will those apes evolve into more sophisticated beings? Or am I missing something here about evolution?
