Humans in Europe in Early Ice Age?

source: Science News, 7/31/10, p5

The 7/8/10 issue of Nature reports the finding of stone tools on the British coast that indicates the oldest settlement of humans there yet. "We suspect these tools were made by the last dregs of a larger hominid population that had come when the area was warmer, but hung on and survived under challenging conditions as the climate cooled" says Natural History Museum in London.

This could give creationists a better idea of how soon after the Flood that the Ice Age got into full swing. The evo-story might have it right (though not on the long time scales, but at least on the right order of events) that there was a warming time in Europe, when people moved further north, then had to leave again when the Ice Age got fully underway.

No bones were found--just tools. They are similar to tools found in Spain, which have been associated with fossils of Homo antecessor--the only human "missing link" fossil that has not yet been totally shot down by enough data. Was it a man or a monkey? This story will be interesting to follow. Creation scientist Gary Parker said to me once, "Evolutionists thrive in the gray areas, in the uncertainties." Dr. Parker is more than just correct on that one. When enough evidence comes in, then they no longer can tell their evo-fables about a fossil. So, we look forward to more info on antecessor in the near future. "Were they tourists, migrants or colonists? We don't know." Well, according to the Bible and the best info on the Ice Age, they would most likely be brief migrants--something between a tourist and a colonist. As soon as it got too cold for them, they left, whoever they were. Keep thinking. DrJ