I did not mean to write a blog post on this topic, but as I was driving to work the other day I started thinking about evolution and what would happen if archaeologists in the future looked at our remains and tried to figure out what they find. First, I do not believe in evolution.
There is actually no real proof of evolution. If evolution was really true there would be some fossil evidence of the stages between two evolutionary points and there is no such evidence, the truth is that science is still looking for this evidence and they call it “the missing link”. My opinion is that what scientists claim is evolution is actually adaptation and gene pool selection amongst a closed group. I think that evolution was a guess based on the archeological finds. Let’s see how that can go wrong…
There are three archeologists thousands of years from today:
Archeologist 1- digs in an area that used to be a cemetery, natural events have dispersed the bodies but in one area of this past cemetery the conditions kept the remains safe. The archeologist digs up Peter Dinklage, the little person from Game of Thrones. Now based on these findings, the archeologist claims that people who lived in this area were small.
Archeologist 2- digs in another former cemetery with the same natural dispersion and finds the remains of Shaquille O’Neil. Based on these findings the archeologist claims that the people who lived in this area were giants or very large.
Archeologist 3- Also digs in a former cemetery at Arlington and finds many remains of former soldiers. After hearing about the finds of Archeologist 1 and 2, Archeologist 3 makes a mental leap and says that the remains he has found are the hybrid evolution of the small people and the giants.
Now we know that is not true. The Arlington man is an average human, Peter Dinklage and Shaq are also human but on the outside spectrums in height. But it is easy to see how archeologists can come up with these scenarios based on limited evidence.
We know that archeologists around the world have dug up many skeletons and have come up with hypotheses about who these people were and their relationship to Homo sapiens. Based on the illustration about the three archeologists let’s take a look at the finds.
Archeologists have found several skeletons that they have classified as different species of man. From Homo erectus, Homo habilis and even Homo neanderthalensis. Most of the finds are located in a specific area, the only species that is worldwide is Home Sapiens. So imagine living in the time after the flood, the world is huge and as families started to grow they spread out and even traveled some distances away from their origin. Now a small group of people who live far from others are going to inbreed, and this will eventually cause mutations as the same gene pool is combining. After a while these people are going to look very different from other people. Think of breeding dogs, you have a Chihuahua and a German Shepherd, both very different but they come from the same original gene pool. If you breed Chihuahuas with Chihuahuas you will get more Chihuahuas, you will never get a German Shepherd. In this same way, remote groups of people in a closed group that will be breeding among themselves will develop traits that are only going to be found among that group. Now if an archeologist digs up the remains of this area they are going to find similar remains. These are not a separate species, this is because a closed group only bred among themselves.