Are You An Ancestor Of Africa? Read this and see!

Whether you are a subscriber to the Big Bang Theory or the Creation Story, many of us wonder what our ancient ancestors looked like. Do you think we all originated from a certain continent, region, or a single lineage?

Charles DarwinCharles Darwin once believed we all came from African primates. Many people agree with his theory that we manifested from apes. Christians who believe in the Creation Story, such as I, believe God made us in His own image and that every specie were unique unto itself. There was no such thing as evolution. What was then continues to be the same creature today, minus a few "upgrades" to survive the changing environment.

Scientists believe they have finally found the answer recently to put the debate to rest. "Ardi" lived 4.4 million years ago in the woodlands of East Africa. She spent most of her time in the trees. She stood about four feet tall, weighed 110 pounds, and had long arms, short legs, and a grasping big toe that was perfect for clambering branch to branch. She ate in the trees, raised her offspring in the trees, slept in the trees. Sometimes she came down from the trees and walked on her hindlegs, setting human evolution fast-forwarded through the future.

"Ardi" is the nickname given to a shattered skeleton that an international team of scientists painstakingly excavated from the Ethiopian desert , analyzed over the course of 15 years, and declared Thursday to be a major breakthrough in the study of human origins. Ardi lived more than a million years before "Lucy," a much-celebrated, 3.2 million-year-old fossil of an early human progenitor found just 45 miles away.

A transitional specie, Ardie collected food in her arms. It was said that she also preferred males that collected food for her in the mating process. This would catapult the human species into a much more refined class of animals, as the savage males with large tusks or fangs no longer had to rely solely on large testicles, a "bristled penis", and bloody fights with other alpha males.

Because "Lucy" and "Ardi" had very different teeth, it is now theorized that the two lived in different periods and ate foods from the Savannah versus the Woodlands, respectively.

The East African plain where Ardi was discovered recently, was once a lush forest of fig and palm trees that were teeming with wildlife and reptiles.

It is the hallmark parental bonding and continued upbringing into adulthood that marks the ancestral human species as different from the primitive apes and chimps the scientists point out. As it may turn out, scientists are now speculating that, since the discovery of Ardi, chimps may have evolved from humans!

The scientists are anxious to see what else they can discover. In the meantime, they will have to immerse themselves in the study of Ardi that is calculated to take many more years to come.

From my perspective, it is hard for me to wrap my mind around the theory that I came from a primitive animal in Africa. I see nothing similar between them and us. If we are going to compare ourselves to the rogue similarities between an ape and a human, we might as well compare iguanas with alligators, bears with pandas, and fish with slugs. On the other hand, Big Bang Theorists would likely argue that it takes a lot more than faith to believe in the Creation Story, and that it holds no scientific proof.