Possible Ape Ancestor Found

12 November 2007

Researchers in the Samburu Hills of northern Kenya found a piece of jaw and a couple of teeth that may be from "A toothy, nut-chomping large ape from Kenya" that they say "may represent a new species that was, or was very close to being, the last common ancestor to gorillas, chimpanzees and humans, according to a new study that outlines the recently discovered, 10 million-year-old species." Once again they are claiming that these fragments of bone and teeth are the possible "mother" of all living apes without even knowing if this animal had any children.

All too often you will see in the news that they find a bone that is the "missing link" between apes and humans. What they forget to inform you is that no fossil is proof of evolution. They take all the bones that they have and then line them up in the most logical looking order and say that each one evolved into the other. Today you can take the skulls from people from all over the world and line them up in a way so the go from most apelike to most human like, but that does not prove that they evolved into each other. Even if they had the entire skeleton of these animals it would not give any information on what their decedents looked like or what their cohabiting species looked like that lived at the same time they did.

Martin Pickford said, "... this tremendous black hole is being filled, and by fossils which show clear affinities with extant African apes and humans." NO fossil shows that one kind of animal is related to another. Science is doing empirical experiments that show that a hypothesis is plausible. Lining bones up in order from small to big is NOT science. Even radioisotope dating to determine age does not give any evidence that they are related.

Finding bone fragments only proves:
1. They died
2. Where they were buried
3. They fossilized

If you want to prove anything else, find out how to observe them turning into each other.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/12/ape-gorilla-ancestor.html