Errors on the BBC Regarding Latest Homo erectus Finding
ERRORS ON THE BBC REGARDING LATEST HOMO ERECTUS FINDING
A report headed "Skull fuels Homo erectus debate" was published
on the BBC web site on July 2, 2004. The article dealt with a fossilised
skull unearthed in Kenya by the palaeontologist Richard Potts and his team,
estimated to be some 900,000 years old and the debate over the category it belonged
to.
Although the fossil discovery had generally Homo erectus
features it possessed a smaller skull than usual. Some evolutionist researchers
maintained that it belonged to Homo erectus, while others opposed all
fossils dating back to that period being classified as Homo erectus
and suggested that this finding indicated the existence of another species.
These debates once again show that the fossil records depicted
as support for the scenario of human evolution are far from presenting a picture
that is objectively acceptable. Evolutionists who categorise these fossils according
to their own lights have not set out concrete lines between categories. Potts
words in the BBC interview, "To my mind it is very difficult to say,
just from the bones, where the species boundaries lie," is a reflection of this.
The category Homo erectus with which this fossil is linked
does not document an assumed transition from an apelike creature towards man,
and constitutes no evidence of evolution. The category Homo erectus
is a totally artificial one produced from a preconceived perspective based on
the uncertainties mentioned in this article. Although Homo erectus
is separated from modern-day man, Homo sapiens, only by racial differences,
these differences have assumed an inter-species dimension and the fossils have
been interpreted according to people's own prejudices.
For a consideration of the preconceptions that have played a role
in the formation of the category Homo erectus, depicted as a transitional
species by evolutionists, see:
