Hobbit Continues to Trouble Evolutionists

Actually, Hobbit is a nickname for a clan of vertically impaired humans classified as Homo floresiensis. Fossils were discovered several years ago and scientists came up with ideas as to why they were so small. There is a range of human height, of course, but to exceed that in either direction involves illnesses or conditions.

Of course, secular scientists were looking for an angle to promote their precious evolution. Were they even human? The evolution connection remains elusive, even to imaginative scientists that infest the secular science industry.

Homo floresiensis, Flickr / Ryan Somma (CC BY 2.0), cropped

It was thought that island dwarfism was an explanation for their small stature. This is where creatures who are forced to live on an island have diminutive offspring. It is actually beneficial. However, it had never been observed in humans. Now it is thought to be the most likely explanation.

The fossil Hobbit was about half the height of the average European male today, and was discovered in a cave in the year 2003. The fossil bones was of a male about one-meter tall (3 feet, 7 inches), that weighed 25 kg, had a very small skull.[ii] His brain about 420 cm3 (420 ml) compared to the modern male size brain of 1,274 cm3 and the average female brain which measures 1,131 cm3.

An Australian-Indonesian team of archaeologists recovered the nearly complete, small-statured skeleton in the Liang Bua cave called LB1. Subsequent excavations in 2003 and 2004 recovered parts of seven additional skeletons initially dated by evolutionists as being from 13,000 to 38,000 years old. (The dates in the articles about the Hobbit were all over the place, from 13,000 to 700,000 years). Hobbits were likely tool makers as indicated by the fact that the cave where the bones were found yielded over ten thousand stone artifacts, mainly lithic flakes.

The entire article can be dug up at "Hobbit News: Fossil Indicates Homo floresiensis Smaller than Thought."