Page 179 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

In conclusion, Orrorin tugenensis assumed its place in the literature
as another fossil that merely confused the evolutionists’ family tree and
placed them in another terrible dilemma.

The New Java Fossil, Sm4
The New Java Fossil, Sm4
A fossil consisting of the calvarium (upper skull) and established
as dating back to the Pleistocene Period (1.8 million to 10.000 years
BCE)) was found in the region of Sangbungman in Indonesia.
Evolutionist researchers maintained that this skull, with a brain volume
of 1006 cubic centimeters, was a transitional form from man’s alleged
primitive ancestors to modern human beings. The fossil, known as Sm4
for short, was claimed to be an evolutionary transitional form between
H. erectus specimens (Sangiran and Ngangdong) previously discovered
in Java. It was also suggested that one important feature of the Sm4 fos-
sil was that its brainstem region was livelier than those of the other Java
specimens, resembling Homo sapiens in this regard. However, these evo-
lutionist claims were based on preconceptions.
Evolutionists describe the H. erectus fossils as primitive human be-
ings, and portray them as so-called transitional forms in their imaginary
family tree. The fact is, however, as the preceding chapters show, there is
evidence that H. erectus was alive at the same time as humans, Homo sapiens.
Furthermore, it is also estimated that the skull, calculated to have a
volume of 1006 cubic centimeters, in all likelihood belonged to a young
or middle-aged male. Bearing in mind that the largest ape skull is no
larger than 650 cubic centimeters, this means it definitely belongs to a
human. The eyebrow ridges are of very reasonable dimensions for any
present-day human. To such an extent, in fact, that if that fossil being
were alive today and walked through a crowded area in modern-day
clothes, nobody would pay him any attention.
Despite being an evolutionist himself, Kenneth Mowbray, an
American Museum of Natural History palaeoanthropologist who stud-

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