[wendy1946]

There are three possible explanations for how modern man got to this planet and macroevolution is not one of them. The three are these: Modern man was

1. Created here from scratch recently
2. Brought here from elsewhere in the cosmos
3. Genetically re-engineered from one of the hominids.

Here's the basic problem: In order to be descended from something via any sort of process resembling evolution, at some point, you have to be able to interbreed with the something.

Now, it was always a big mystery as to why there was never any evidence of crossbreeding between modern humans and neanderthals despite evidence of the two groups living in close proximity for long periods of time; one fairly good description of the problem was published in Discover Magazine around 96.

And then, in the late 90s, they resolved the mystery by analyzing neanderthal DNA; the result they turned up was that neanderthal dna was about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and pretty much everybody involved in these studies views that as altogether eliminating the neanderthal as a plausible human ancestor. Even standard sources like PLOS Biology agree with this assessment.

Again as I noted, all other hominids were further removed from us THAN the neanderthal. In other words, if you wanted to go on thinking that we are descended from hominids, you would have to produce some new hominid closer to us both in time and morphology THAN the neanderthal and the works and remains of such a creature would be all over the map and exceedingly easy to find, had he ever existed. There is, of course, zero evidence of it.

The basic bottom line is that there is nothing on this planet which we could plausibly be descended from via any process resembling evolution.

[allmendream]

The problem with creationists is not just that they don't really know the subject that they, in their ignorance, reject; it is also that so much that they THINK they know is just so absolutely WRONG!

There is and was no need for any crossbreeding between species for there to be descent via evolutionary processes.

The closest relative to a human in DNA is the chimpanzee, and the closest relative to a chimpanzee in DNA is the human being. Humans and chimps are closer to each other in DNA than either is to a gorilla. The endogenous retroviral markers show the evidence of our common descent.

Evolution as a model, explains these observations.

Creationism does not.