FURTHER SUPPORT FOR THE THESIS OF MICROCEPHALY IN FLORES MAN

FURTHER SUPPORT FOR THE THESIS
OF MICROCEPHALY IN FLORES MAN


A response was issued by us when Homo floresiensis, to give it its
scientific name, or Hobbit, as it was widely referred to in the media,
fossils were first discovered (1). In that response we explained how
the classification of Homo floresiensis as a separate species was based
solely on evolutionist preconceptions, and that there were no concrete
scientific criteria on which everyone agreed. The groundless nature of
this "separate species" claim subsequently came to the surface, and
we reported how experts from various countries of the world had, in
their published reports, added their weight to the ideas that a small
brain volume was insufficient grounds for Homo floresiensis to be
classified as a separate species, and that the approximately 400 cc
volume skull concerned could have been the result of the disease known
as microcephaly, which leads to a non-fully developed brain. (2, 3)
Comparisons between microcephalic skulls belonging to Homo sapiens, or
modern man, and the Homo floresiensis skull revealed very obvious
similarities, and the reason for the wish to regard Flores Man as a
separate species thus became more apparent: blind evolutionist belief
that more than one human species must once have existed.

The program Horizon, aired on BBC Two on 22 September, 2005, introduced
its audience to two more scientists who supported the microcephaly
thesis with regard to Flores Man (1); Professor Bob Martin and Ann
MacLarnon from Roehampton University. The researchers, who maintained
that Homo floresiensis was subject to the disease microcephaly in the
same way as modern human beings, supported their views with various
medical findings.

Professor Martin calculated how much brain volume shrank in the event
of a mammal's physical dimensions being reduced in size. Martin based
these calculations on a principle he described in these terms:

"What this law says in simple terms is that if you halve body size,
brain size is only reduced by 15%... So if you halve body size you
don't halve brain size, the brain is reduced far less than that."

He took figures for Homo erectus, to whom an ancestral role is ascribed
in the claim that Flores Man is a separate species, as his basis. For
this he calculated how much a Homo erectus individual 1.75 m tall and
with a 990 cc brain volume could have shrunk in size. As a result he
determined that 750 cc corresponded to the 1 m height of Flores Man.
This, however, was far greater than the actual figure of 400 cc.

The meaning of this was that the reasons for the shrinking in the brain
were not limited to a reduction in the size of the body. This
strengthened the thesis that other factors, such as microcephaly, must
have been involved.

In a separate study, Ann MacLarnon from Roehampton University found a
microcephalic skull in the vaults of the Royal College of Surgeons in
London that totally matched the dimensions of the Flores Man brain.
MacLarnon explained the significance of this by saying:

"It showed that we really could demonstrate with a specimen that
[microcephaly] could explain the Hobbit's small brain."

Conclusion:

As we have seen, the scenario that Flores Man was a separate species is
gradually disappearing in the face of the accumulation of scientific
findings that oppose this. This represents a repetition of a familiar
fact regarding the myth of human evolution: the species that
evolutionists propose as living things between man and ape are
eventually classified, in the face of the scientific evidence, into
either fully human or fully ape categories, thus forcing evolutionists
to remove them from the imaginary human family tree. The microcephaly
thesis, further strengthened by the findings presented on the BBC
Horizon program, shows that Flores Man was the result of the same
process.

The human family tree consists of unscientific nonsense made up by
evolutionists. They seek to keep it alive as a representation of the
evolutionist world view. Yet these fossils, very few in number and
widely scattered, actually provide no support for evolutionist
scenarios. Neither man nor apes are random forms that evolved by
chance. Both are perfect beings created by God with His infinite might
and knowledge.

Reference:1- www.bbc.co.uk, "New 'Hobbit' disease link claim," 23
September 2005

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