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The Fossils Say Yes"

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Are Humans Evolving

Back Into Apes?
The Fossils Say Yes
A lot of people say we evolved from chimpanzees and
gorillas. I beg to differ! The chimps and gorillas evolved
from us! We are the more primitive species! Perhaps we
evolved from some cousin of the orangutans, but we did not
come from chimps or gorillas.
This argument comes from the fossil record. There are
no gorillas or chimpanzees in the fossil record prior to
comparatively recent times.[1] Although hominid fossils are
common, there has been only one find of chimpanzee fossils,
dating to between 284,000 and 545,000 years ago.[2] As
Harrison said,

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The evolutionary history of extant humanoids (i.e.

gorillas, chimps, and humans) is poorly known, with
the notable exception of humans, which have a
relatively complete fossil record extending back more
than 4 million years the fossil record for African
apes is entirely unknown. The evolution of the
orangutan is, by comparison, much better documented.
[3]

Just going from what the fossils say, the chimps and the
gorillas have not been on this planet nearly as long as we
have. Some say that we can't find more fossils of chimps and
gorillas because they live in the jungle, and fossils don't
preserve well in the jungle. But does this make sense? How
is it that Pleistocene Orangutan fossils are scattered all
across southeast Asia?[4] Is that not jungle too? In the
Miocene, Europe was covered in tropical forests. Ape fossils

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have been recovered from hundreds of locations all across

European strata of that time. In fact, when the European
jungles retreated in the late Miocene, so did the apes, for
they cannot be found in great numbers in Europe except for
where there was jungle.[5] From the early Eocene to the
early Oligocene, 196 fossil primate species are known, and
from the late Oligocene to the late Pleistocene, 167 fossil
primate species are known. Fossil primates have been found
on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.[6]
Thus, the primate fossil record is comparatively well-known,
both in numbers and across time frames. If chimps and
gorillas were in Africa for the past 6 or 7 million years, since
the time they allegedly diverged from us, then we should see
more evidence for it.

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Despite the fossil gap, the chimps and gorillas are very
much related to us. The chimps share 98.6% of our DNA, or
95.2% if deletions are added to substitutions.[7] They look
like us, they have DNA like us, and they even act like us. But
they are not found in the fossil record before us. So we did
not evolve from them. If anything, they evolved from us!
If you took a chimpanzee, and put both a human and a
gorilla right in front of his nose, and then asked him "Who's
your daddy," the chimp would point at the human, not the
gorilla. Likewise, a gorilla would also point to the human,
not the chimp. A test using the agent antiserum against
albumin revealed that both chimps and gorillas are more
related to us than to each other.[8] Despite having much in
common, such as hairy bodies, knuckle walking, and much
smaller brain sizes than we do, they are more closely related
to us than to each other. A Jukes-Cantor measurement of
the distance between genomes sheds some light on the
subject. When comparing the chimp genome to gorilla and
human genomes, the chimp is in all tests more closely related
to humans than to gorillas. When comparing the gorilla
genome to chimp and human genomes, the non-coding genes,
autosomals, pseudogenes, and synonymous genes of the
gorilla show a closer genetic relationship to humanity than to
the chimp. For non-synonymous genes, the gorilla shows
just a hair more affinity toward the chimp these being
the genes under the pressures of natural selection.[9]

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Here's why: non-synonymous genes are subject to the

pressures of natural selection, whereas synonymous genes
are not. Gorillas and chimps live in similar jungle
environments, and this has caused them to acquire similar
characteristics, but the synonymous genes reveal lineages by
means of tracing DNA that has been left unaltered by
selective pressures. That's how we know chimps and gorillas
are more closely related to us than to each other. Natural

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selection has caused chimps and gorillas to look more similar

to each other than to us. However, when their genomes are
analyzed, chimps and gorillas both turn out to be more
closely related to us than to each other.

The Evolution, Devolution, and Devilization of Humanity

It appears that some aliens don't really want humans on
this planet, so they have attempted to devolve us back into
less intelligent animals. To reverse human evolution, they
have inserted ape-like DNA into our gene pool, thus causing
gorillas and chimps and other small-brained hominids to
evolve from us.
The predictions of the so-called "molecular clock" tell us
that humans and chimps diverged from each other 6 million
years ago, and that humans and gorillas diverged 7 million
years ago.[10] Some give it a wider range, from 5 to 8
million years ago.[11] This information is in tension with the
fossil record, which does not show chimp or gorilla fossils
until much more recent times. Be that as it may, let us
suppose that the molecular clock is correct, and that the
fossils just have not been found.
In this scenario, then, if we trace our ancestry back
through the fossil record, we should expect to find our
ancestors from 6 and 7 million years ago to look like
primitive chimps and gorillas. Yet the fossils of this age that
are potentially ancestral to humans reflect more similarity to
humanity than to chimps or gorillas. Sahelanthropus was an
ape-like human in precisely this time frame of 6 to 7 million
years ago. It had human characteristics such as a flatter
face, smaller canines, and thicker tooth enamel than in other
apes, and a human-like attachment of the spinal chord to the
brain, which indicates that Sahelanthropus probably walked
on two feet, instead of on his knuckles.[12] As Jobling et al
say, "these findings can barely be reconciled with a chimphuman split of 5-7 million years ago."[13] About this same
time there appears Orrorin,[14] walking on two feet, and
with thick enamel on its teeth two distinctly human
characteristics not shared by chimps or gorillas. There is
also Ardipithecus, which has chimp-like characters (thin
enamel to name one); yet it could stand on two feet more
efficiently than a chimp.[15] From this, we might conclude
that humans are devolving into apes, as Jobling et al said,

All these early hominid fossils appear to represent

chimpanzee-sized, upright-walking species The
most radical possibility is that bipedalism is the
primitive trait and knuckle-walking in chimpanzees is
derived[16]

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One possible explanation is that the molecular evidence is

just wrong, and that chimps and gorillas diverged much
earlier. Suwa et al propose this, based on some 10 million
year-old gorilla-like teeth, yet unlike modern gorilla teeth,
these have thick enamel and other differences.[17]

Our Unfortunate Relatives

The fossil remains of the hominid Homo floresiensis are
only 38,000 to 18,000 years old, yet the forehead is receding,
and the brain size is smaller than that of the ape-man
Australopithecus only 380 cubic centimeters, which is
surprisingly tiny even for its relative body size.
Australopithecus and Paranthropus had gone extinct 2
million years previously, and even they had larger brains for
their body size! H. floresiensis is in most other respects
human, including its teeth, basic skull shape, and ability to
walk upright on two feet.[18] Despite its small brain, it
appears to have used tools and lit fires. For some, its
technological achievements indicate it must have been
derived from more advanced hominids such as possibly
Homo erectus. Yet H. erectus had a brain more than twice
the size and was already extinct by then. Multiple specimens
have been found, which means we are not dealing with a
dwarf or abnormal mutant, but rather with a regular
population.[19] Humans just like us were contemporary
with H. floresiensis. Even the Neanderthals were almost
extinct. We might say we are their nearest relative, if it
weren't for the fact that the wrist of H. floresiensis is
apparently more primitive than both human and
Neanderthal wrists.[20] Some even argue that the root of its
divergence from the human line is quite ancient going
back to Homo habilis.[21] The problem is, H. habilis died
out nearly 2 million years ago. Where are its fossils for the
past 2 million years?
Could this strange creature be the product of malicious
space aliens, who were attempting to thwart human
evolution by devolving us into lower apes? The natives of
Indonesia claim that a small hairy clan of people who spoke
a different language was still present some 300 years ago.
[22] H. floresiensis was found in Indonesia. Apparently, the
ape-men are coming back.
There is also the ape-man Paranthropus, which,
although it is not necessarily a step down in terms of brain
size, certainly was not a step up either. It's nontechnological, apparently root-digging lifestyle, was an
evolutionary dead end. Wood called it a "bushpig."[23]
Read more about the evidence for intelligent life before
humans.
The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by
many ancient Christian texts. Instead of an Almighty

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Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the

universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity. The
angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.
There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is
just one among them. Satan the Devil writes scripture, and
thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1. Archaeology and
modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed
corrupted. Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve. Esoteric
prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the
dark forces that govern the cosmos. Such are the ancient
Christian writings.
Science vindicates the truth of these ideas. Evolution often
happens too fast for Darwins theory. Gaps in the fossil
record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts
together with natural selection. Astrobiology reveals that
intelligent life probably evolved long before us. The fossil
record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and
transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse
lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species. Evidently,
aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the
worlds religions.
This is not fiction. All these facts are thoroughly
documented in the links above.

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