It is interesting to observe that certain pieces of the fossil evidence for human evolution are either ignored or stretched in order to not upset the accepted picture of human evolution. Creationist,, in his recent book, Bones of Contention, gives numerous examples of this kind of manipulation.

1. A human bone fragment that's too old.{7}

   The first example involves a small bone fragment that routinely gets left out of the accounts written for the general public. This fragment of the lower end of the upper arm, near the elbow was found in 1965 near Kanapoi, Kenya, and is given the designation KP 271.

   1. What is unusual about this discovery is the date of around 4.5 million years. Unusual, because it appears for all intents and purposes to be human.

   2. Humans are not supposed to be around 4.5 million years ago. Consequently, this small piece of humerus is usually designated as Australopithecus because that is the only hominid species assumed to be available at that time.

   3. Lubenow quotes Harvard anthropologist William Howells in a stunning admission,

      The humeral fragment from Kanapoi, with a date of about 4.4 million, could not be distinguished from Homo sapiens morphologically or by multivariate analysis by Patterson and myself in 1967. . . . We suggested that it might represent Australopithecus because at that time allocation to Homo seemed preposterous, although it would be the correct one without the time element.{8}

   4. The only reason KP 271 is not listed as human is because it can't be, according to evolutionary theory.

2. Human footprints that don't belong.{9}

   The second example involves another essentially human discovery that is wildly out of place. You may have heard of a series of footprints found by Mary Leakey near Laetoli, Tanzania. Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin just gloss over them by calling them hominid footprints.{10}

   1. Lubenow documents that these footprints are identical to those made today by humans that always walk barefoot.

   2. Yet these footprints are routinely classified as Australopithecine.

   3. William Howells refers to the conclusions of Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago and a leading expert on hominoid gaits and limbs as saying that the footprints are nearly identical to modern humans and that Australopithecine feet are significantly different. Tuttle suggests an "undiscovered species" made these prints. But he can't say that a human made these prints because humans aren't supposed to exist yet. In the words of evolutionist William Howells, "Here is something of an enigma."{11}

3. The incredible saga of determining the date for Skull 1470.
   1. Skull 1470 was very modern in its appearance but was found in rock previously dated at 2.9 million years--much too old for a modern skull. So some scientists set out to determine a much younger date.

   2. Lubenow recounts the back and forth wrangling over the issue. Several radioactive methods and paleomagnetism mainly pointed to 2.9 million years but a few were found contradictory.

   3. Ultimately the radioactive dates were tossed aside in favor of a date of 1.9 million years, a date that fit the human evolution better, based on the certainty of the dates of pig evolution. Yes, pig evolution. To quote Lubenow, "The pigs won. . . . The pigs took it all. But in reality, it wasn't the pigs that won. It was evolution that won. In the dating game, evolution always wins."{12}