Let me start out by saying that I am certainly not a creationist, and I have a healthy knowledge of evolutionary theory. However, I found an article by Duane Gish that troubled me. Usually I dimiss these types of articles because they are easily refuted by talkorigins and the like.
However this article claims that:
Leakey has reported that he found the remains of a juvenile Homo habilis in Bed I at Olduvai Gorge at a lower level than he had found an australopithecine in the same bed. Furthermore, Leakey has found evidence of both Australopithecus and Homo habilis above Bed I in Bed II, contemporary with Homo erectus.8,9
8 M.D. Leakey, Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3, Cambridge U. Press, 1971, p. 272.
9 A.J. Kelso, Physical Anthropology, 1st Edition, J.B. Lippincott Co., New York, 1970, p. 221.
The rest can be found here:
The Institute for Creation Research
I have searched talkorigins and a few of my books but have been unable to find a refutation of this particular argument. Is there a simple error in logic I am missing here? I can understand how it could be possible for these fossils to be found in the same place OR the same time, but how is it possible that all three could be found in the same place AND same time.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Unbolded quoted material and put it in a quote box instead (see "Peak" to see coding).
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Added second quote box material, which are the references for the previously quoted.