Dear Sir
Search for our Father ...
Michel Brunet deserves credit for scientifically deducing that the
Saharan Sahel region of Chad is a good place to look for fossils [July
22]. However, the wild conclusions drawn from the mere skull of the
Toumai chimp type creature are staggering. In the evolutionary system,
the associated fish, crocodile, elephant and giraffe fossils can only
serve to fix the maximum age of Toumai, but cannot guarantee that
the fossil is not in fact younger. Further, hoping that the apparently
oval opening at the base of the skull indicates that Toumai may have
walked upright sounds like wishful thinking - I would put far more
stock in an x-ray analysis of the semicircular canals of the ear.
Such x-ray analysis has shown that Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus
robustic and Homo habilis did not walk upright like humans (Ref 1).
Finally, the conclusion that Toumai is part of our ancestral tree
(or bush) is unsubstantiated by the facts (which, remember, is just
a well preserved chimp type skull).
Orphan children no doubt long to know who their father is. Nonetheless,
it is strange that intelligent humans are so desperate to support
the theory of evolution that the discovery of a single well-preserved
chimp type skull warrants such coverage from Time. Perhaps we are
not orphans after all, but fleeing from the living Father who requires
far more from us than a dead chimp.
Name: Jeanine McGill
Address: PO Box 36129, Glosderry, 7702, Cape Town, South Africa
Fax Number: +27 21 685 5884
E-mail: snarf@freemail.absa.co.za
References
1. F. Spoor, B. Wood and F. Zonneveld, 'Implications of early hominid
morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion', Nature 369
(6482):645-648, 1994.
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