Mankind has existed essentially unchanged for billions of years

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 Further Reading 7 Related claims 8 Acknowledgments

[edit] Claim

Modern humans have lived on earth for billions of years.

[edit] Source

• Cremo, Michael & Richard L. Thompson, 1994. Forbidden Archaeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race. Badger, CA: Govardhan Hill Publishing. 1994

[edit] Responses

1. This claim is unsupported by evidence and the oldest Homo sapiens fossils are around 200,000 years old.
2. The oldest hominid fossils are around 7 million years old and the distribution and morphologies all point to our more recent (millions of years ago) common ancestry with other apes.
3. There is no evidence that animals have been around "unchanged" for billions of years, in fact. The earliest animals only appeared 600 million years ago in the Ediacaran period and the stratigraphic and geographic distributions of fossils and extant species generally matches the genetic evidence for more recent (still millions of years) common ancestry between species.
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[edit] Fallacies contained in this claim

• Exclusion (contradictory evidence is ignored)
• Fallacy of Negative Proof (I can't understand it so it couldn't have happened)

[edit] External Links

• Mark Isaak's page for this claim [1]
• Foley, Jim, 1996. NBC's "The Mysterious Origins of Man" [2]
• Groves, Colin, 1994. Creationism: The Hindu View. The Skeptic 14(3): 43-45, [3]

[edit] Further Reading

• Brass, Michael, 2002. The Antiquity of Man: Artifactual, Fossil, and Gene Records Explored, Publish America, Baltimore.

[edit] Related claims

• The earth is 6000-10000 years old

[edit] Acknowledgments