A powerful topic and highly debated is the theories of evolutionist vs. creationist. Let me start by visiting what we know now, my advantage is that scientist have documented much more in 2016 than ever before. Merging both aspects of anthropology, geology and creationist theories I found a surprising common denominator.
Our forefather in faith had this to say about evolution theory;
John Taylor, The Mediation and Atonement, 164-165. These principles do not change, as represented by evolutionists of the Darwinian school, but the primitive organisms of all living beings exist in the same form as when they first received their impress from their Maker.... and if we take man, he is said to have been made in the image of God, for the simple reason that he is a son of God.... in whose likeness, we are told, he is made. He did not originate from a chaotic mass of matter, moving or inert, but came forth possessing, in an embryonic state, all the faculties and powers of a God. And when he shall be perfected, and have progressed to maturity, he will be like his Father–a God; being indeed His offspring. As the horse, the ox, the sheep, and every living creature, including man, propagates its own species and perpetuates its own kind, so does God perpetuate His.
James E. Talmage, Church News, Nov. 21, 1931, 8 (in Meservy, p. 224). I do not regard Adam as related to–certainly not as descended from–the Neanderthal, the Cro-Magnon, the Peking or the Piltdown [!] man. Adam came as divinely created, created and empowered, and stands as the patriarchal head of his posterity–posterity, who, if true to the laws of God are heirs to the Priesthood and to the glories of eternal lives.
Talmage being known as one who studied the theory of evolution and the concepts of creationism but was absolutely against the idea that man evolved from primates, as I am.
Darwin’s theory along with 90% of the anthropologies since the 1800’s believe that man evolved from species closely related to primates, along with other species of mammals, such as cows evolved from whales. Darwin was English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors
I think the first perplexing concept which as alluded many is “time”, that is GOD’s time verse mans time.
Scripture gives us some concept of time but it is not specific, essentially the word “like” leaves a powerful open ended interpretation.
Psalm 90:4 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
2 Peter 3:8 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
This simply means it could be more!
Wikipedia has this timeline regarding the evolution of man;
Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic humans in the Middle Paleolithic, about 200,000 years ago. The emergence of anatomically modern human marks the dawn of the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, i.e. the subspecies of Homo sapiens to which all humans alive today belong. The oldest fossil remains of anatomically modern humans are the Omo remains found in modern-day East Africa, which date to 195,000 years ago and include two partial skulls as well as arm, leg, foot and pelvis bones.
Other fossils include the proposed Homo sapiens idaltu from Hetro in Ethiopia that are almost 160,000 years old and the Skhul hominids from Israel, which are 90,000 years old.
The oldest human remains from which an entire genome has been extracted belongs to Ust'-Ishim man, who lived about 45,000 years ago in Western Siberia.
Behavioral modernity — a suite of changes in Homo sapiens behavior and cognition including abstract thinking, deep planning, symbolic behavior (e.g. art, ornamentation, music), exploitation of large game, and blade technology — is evident from around 40,000–50,000 years ago, and may have emerged abruptly then or may have arisen through gradual steps.
Most intriguing is that as many bones and remains that have been found never have fully intact skin accompanied the remains. The artist’s illustrations and the reconstructive artist have all suspected that the features are more primitive ape like. Therefore by visual effects forced the missing equation.
From this evolutionary graph you can see when evidence for fire and tool making became part of social existences. I believe anthropologist have confused some of the remains with those of a primitive Gorillas, Orangutan, Chimpanzee and even possibly Gigantopithecus species.
Gigantopithecus
Bigfoot proponents Grover Krantz and Geoffrey H. Bourne believed that Bigfoot could be a relict population of Gigantopithecus. According to Bourne, all Gigantopithecus fossils were found in Asia, and, as many species of animals migrated across the Bering land bridge, it is not unreasonable to assume that Gigantopithecus might have as well.
Gigantopithecus fossils have not been found in the Americas. The only recovered fossils are of mandibles and teeth, leaving uncertainty about Gigantopithecus's locomotion. Krantz has argued, based on his extrapolation of the shape of its mandible, that Gigantopithecus blacki could have been bipedal. However, the relevant part of the mandible is not present in any fossils. An alternative view is that Gigantopithecus was quadrupedal, and it has been said that Gigantopithecus's enormous mass would have made it difficult for it to adopt a bipedal gait.
Matt Cartmill presents another view regarding the Gigantopithecus hypothesis: "The trouble with this account is that Gigantopithecus was not a hominin and maybe not even a crown group hominoid; yet the physical evidence implies that Bigfoot is an upright biped with buttocks and a long, stout, permanently adducted hallux. These are hominin autapomorphies, not found in other mammals or other bipeds. It seems unlikely that Gigantopithecus would have evolved these uniquely hominin traits in parallel."
Bernard G. Campbell wrote: "That Gigantopithecus is in fact extinct has been questioned by those who believe it survives as the Yeti of the Himalayas and the Sasquatch of the north-west American coast. But the evidence for these creatures is not convincing.
Thus far this species has not left remains of using fire or tools. Species found before 3.5 million years ago would just be apes, earlier would be a mix of early man remains and separate early ape remains.
SO actually BIGFOOT is the missing link?
Let’s jump ahead into Genesis. The time-line of creation according to prophets, keep in mind this was written thousands of years before anthropology evolved. No doubt Divine Prophecy;
Genesis 1King James Version (KJV)
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Now compare it to this timeline; I’ve marked the days according to the wisdom of Genesis. More that just a coincidence huh?
Note the scale is in millions of years, would it be forward to say and day to GOD is like a million years to man? Could this also mean that our perfection is not yet complete as living hosts? Each generation is smarter and more beautiful, are we walking to the new millennium when GOD and Christ will reign on earth? Will we reach a lightbody estate all men being pure light in consciousness? No more sorrows, no more sickness no more tears?
It’s clear in genesis that all animal kind was already upon the earth. I liken the animal kingdom to have been slowly formed by the potter or great creator. We know today some dinosaurs had feathers and our modern day species has evolved from those early prototypes. However, man was formed differently was in a sudden man came. Fire and tools appeared, social living appeared, it’s fairly evident.
In addition to this unexpected symphony of revelation, it became all the more clear that man was GOD gave man the blessing to be fruitful and multiply thus upholding the modern day revelation that sex itself was not the original sin. Rather the original sin is likened until the fall of Adam and Eve when they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil or more simply put; to lose pure consciousness and entertain a deceitful consciousness in disobedience. Families were blessed on the sixth day.
