I find this interesting:
We often here that there are no transitional fossils and that the variety of hominid fossils, and their seeming progression from early ape-like forms to modern human forms, are not a problem since they are simply and demonstratably either apes or humans, not anything in between. The point being that they could not be transitional because they SO CLEARLY fall into one category or the other.
But the problem is that the Creation scientists themselves can't agree on which fossils go in which groups! There are some fossils which Creationists categorize as humans and other Creationists categorize as apes.
Peking Man, for example, is about evenly split between the leading Creationist scientists. Half think human and half ape. There are also large splits on Java Man and ER 1470. Other fossils have splits, but not as dramatic, with most falling on one side or the other.
If these particular fossils have sufficient similarities to EACH category (or "kind", if you will) that even Creationist scientists can't agree which they are, isn't that the very definition of a transitional fossil?
We often here that there are no transitional fossils and that the variety of hominid fossils, and their seeming progression from early ape-like forms to modern human forms, are not a problem since they are simply and demonstratably either apes or humans, not anything in between. The point being that they could not be transitional because they SO CLEARLY fall into one category or the other.
But the problem is that the Creation scientists themselves can't agree on which fossils go in which groups! There are some fossils which Creationists categorize as humans and other Creationists categorize as apes.
Peking Man, for example, is about evenly split between the leading Creationist scientists. Half think human and half ape. There are also large splits on Java Man and ER 1470. Other fossils have splits, but not as dramatic, with most falling on one side or the other.
If these particular fossils have sufficient similarities to EACH category (or "kind", if you will) that even Creationist scientists can't agree which they are, isn't that the very definition of a transitional fossil?
