Smithsonian Human Ancestors

[jcrawford]

The Smithsonian Institution has a website which presents the claims of modern neo-Darwinist evolutionary theorists that the human ancestors of all American people originated and descended from non-human ape-like creatures in Africa.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/ances_start.html

I would like to know if any creationists would like to fellowship with me (and hopefully other creationists) in examining and exploring the information posted in the Smithsonian website for purposes of discovering, discussing and exposing the biased and prejudicial assumptions and logic inherent in their claims concerning the origins of all American people from Africa.

 

[jcrawford]

 

[BobRyan]

According to this document classical Darwinian evolutionism has us all coming from apes/chimps

Charles Darwin most definitely did state that humans evolved from apes. In chapter six (“On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man”) in his volume, The Descent of Man, Darwin concluded:

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In the class of mammals the steps are not difficult to conceive which led from the ancient Monotremata to the ancient marsupials; and from these to the early progenitors of the placental mammals. We may thus ascend to the Lemuridae; and the interval is not very wide from these to the Simiadae [monkeys and apes]. The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter, at a remote period, Man, the wonder and glory of the Universe, proceeded.

But that is not all that Darwin had to say on this matter. What organism was it from which Darwin said humans had evolved? He continued:

[A] naturalist would undoubtedly have ranked as an ape or a monkey, an ancient form which possessed many characters common to the Catarhine [Old World] and Platyrhine [New World] monkey…. There can, consequently, hardly be a doubt that man is an off-shoot from the Old World simian stem; and that under a genealogical point of view he must be classified with the Catarhine division…. We have seen that man appears to have diverged from the Catarhine or Old World division of the Simiadae, after these had diverged from the New World division (p. 521, emp. and bracketed items added).

http://www.trueorigin.org/ng_ap01.asp

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[jcrawford]

Originally posted by BobRyan:
According to this document classical Darwinian evolutionism has us all coming from apes/chimps

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Charles Darwin most definitely did state that humans evolved from apes. In chapter six (“On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man”) in his volume, The Descent of Man, Darwin concluded:

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In the class of mammals the steps are not difficult to conceive which led from the ancient Monotremata to the ancient marsupials; and from these to the early progenitors of the placental mammals. We may thus ascend to the Lemuridae; and the interval is not very wide from these to the Simiadae [monkeys and apes]. The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter, at a remote period, Man, the wonder and glory of the Universe, proceeded.

But that is not all that Darwin had to say on this matter. What organism was it from which Darwin said humans had evolved? He continued:

[A] naturalist would undoubtedly have ranked as an ape or a monkey, an ancient form which possessed many characters common to the Catarhine [Old World] and Platyrhine [New World] monkey…. There can, consequently, hardly be a doubt that man is an off-shoot from the Old World simian stem; and that under a genealogical point of view he must be classified with the Catarhine division…. We have seen that man appears to have diverged from the Catarhine or Old World division of the Simiadae, after these had diverged from the New World division (p. 521, emp. and bracketed items added).

http://www.trueorigin.org/ng_ap01.asp

</font>[/QUOTE]</font>[/QUOTE]Besides using euphemistic terms such as "ape-like" to imply that our ancestors were rather apish-looking, the Smithsonian stresses "that humans did not evolve from living chimpanzees," but that chimp and human species descended from a "common ancestor that was distinct from other African apes."

This "common ancestor" is still classified as an ape by neo-Darwinist evolutionists just like chimps and humans are today. What the Smithsonian Institute neglects to tell the American people is that neo-Darwinist theorists have already classified all Americans as apes in the Hominidae family tree of Great Apes to begin with! Biologically speaking then, the net effect of what they are saying is that modern American human apes descended from African non-human apes.

This common ancestor is thought to have existed in the Pliocene between 5 and 8 million years ago, based on the estimated rates of genetic change. Both of our species have since undergone 5 to 8 million years of evolution after this split of the two lineages.

In other words, some unknown non-human African apes evolved into modern chimpanzees and human apes.

Using the fossil record, scientists attempt to reconstruct the evolution from this common ancestor through the series of early human species to today's modern human species.

Wait till you see what fossils they use to represent "early human species" in their attempts to "reconstruct" our modern human evolution from their "common" ape ancestor.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/primate.html