In 1913, at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, a fellow by the name of Hans Reck, a paleontologist and geologist at Berlin University, found a reasonably complete human skeleton that was anatomically modern. This skeleton was buried in Upper bed II at the gorge, which is 1.5-1.7 million years old.
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| Olduvai gorge; image from Wikimedia Commons |
Debate about this finding went on for decades, until finally, in the 1970's, a professor at Frankfurt University named Reiner Protsch, claimed to have tested the skull from the same skeleton discovered by Hans Reck back in 1913, and had come up with an age of 10,000 years.
So if this skeleton is only 10,000 years old, why was it unearthed in a layer of earth one-and-a-half million years old?
Most evolutionists will challenge, with an air of snarky self-assuredness, as I myself regrettably have in the past, "To disprove evolution, you just have to find one fossil out of place!"
My first thought was: maybe this person was buried long ago. In archaeology, this is referred to as intrusive burial. The problem with that hypothesis is that, as you would imagine, there would be evidence of disturbance surrounding the burial, especially directly on top of it. In this case at Olduvai gorge there were no signs of intrusive burial.
It also turns out that Reiner Protsch, the Frankfurt professor who dated this skull to be 10,000 years old, ended up resigning after a Frankfurt University committee revealed numerous radiocarbon dates he had falsified. (Quick digression: one has to wonder what the incentive would be to do such a thing, no? I mean, why do that?)
The theory of evolution claims that modern humans, people who look like us, evolved around 300,000 years ago. Though the influences of the time we live in shape what we passionately defend to be true, and the average person possesses a strong normalcy bias and fears social ostracization above all, at this point in all I've read, I would warn anyone against thinking of Darwin's theory as a fact.
The above is only one small finding to ponder, there are many more which I'll share soon.
