{"id":300674,"date":"2026-02-25T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300674\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:37:09","slug":"gulf-between-ape-like-and-human-grows-wider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300674\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Between Ape-Like and Human Grows Wider"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Casey Luskin reported earlier today: \u201cPaper Defends Spoken Language in\u00a0Homo erectus<\/a>.\u201d I love the analysis by Casey. If the paper he writes about is correct, it strengthens the case that Homo erectus were simply human beings, albeit very early ones. The problem is that the next closest species to Homo erectus going back in the geological column is extremely ape-like. Where does this leave us? <\/p>\n

The more we learn about Homo erectus, the more human-like they appear; and the more we learn about the most human-like hominids before Homo erectus, the more ape-like they appear. The gulf between the ape-like and human, in other words, is growing rather than shrinking. This trend supports the traditional view that humans were uniquely designed rather than evolving willy-nilly from ape-like ancestors.<\/p>\n

For more on the subject, see Science and Human Origins<\/a> (Discovery Institute Press) and the Science Uprising episode on \u201cHuman Evolution: The Monkey Bias<\/a>,\u201d both of which make this same point that there is a massive and widening gap between ape-like and human-like.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\/ Jonathan Witt<\/a>Executive Editor, Discovery Institute Press and Senior Fellow, Center for Science and CultureJonathan Witt, PhD, is Executive Editor of Discovery Institute Press and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture. His co-authored books include Intelligent Design Uncensored (IVP), A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature (IVP), and The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot (Ignatius Press). Witt is also the lead writer and associate producer for Poverty, Inc., winner of the $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award and recipient of over 50 international film festival honors. His latest book is a YA novel co-authored with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, The Farm at the Center of the Universe<\/a>.Follow JonathanProfile<\/a><\/p>\n

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