Human Hand Bone Challenges Evolution

The following is excerpted from "Surprising Human Hand Bone," Brian Thomas, Institute for Creation Research, Jan. 10, 2014: "A hand bone found in northern Kenya surprised researchers when it surfaced in rock layers assigned a supposed age of about 1.4 million years, making it the oldest dated human bone but still 'young' enough to challenge its age assignment. If the secular community is correct in asserting that this discovery outdates the supposed earliest accepted human fossil by almost half a million years, then the find merely illustrates how human anatomy has resisted evolutionary changes for that long. Publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the team described a human hand bone--a third metacarpal--matching the hand of an approximately 5-foot-10-inch tall male. They wrote, 'In all ways, this bone resembles that of a modern human in overall proportions and morphology.' ... Regardless of secularist's disjointed dating differences, the most significant news from the latest hand-fossil find should be the simple fact that the oldest, widely recognized human hand bone shows no evolutionary change. This Kenyan fossil points to man originating...as man."

Concluding Note: Evolutionary dating schemes are not based on solid science but upon science used as a scheme to support evolutionary presuppositions. See the report "Archaeological Dating Methods" at the Way of Life web site.

(Friday Church News Notes, January 24, 2014, www.wayoflife.org [email protected], 866-295-4143)

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