[Ugur]

This news is a few months old but still valid. Updated Wikipedia writes corroborating stuff.

The White Path: A Farewell to <em>Homo habilis</em>, a Modern Icon

I suggest you read all of it by clicking the link. Yet I quote the passages I want to highlight.

Now, the reason why I am telling you all about this is an important discovery made two weeks ago in Kenya by Meave Leakey, the veteran paleontologist. The bones that Mrs. Leakey and her colleagues have found really shakes the standard evolution story, because they prove that Homo habilis and Homo erectus, which are supposed to be two different phases of human evolution, actually coexisted for at least half a million years.

“It's the equivalent of finding that your grandmother and great-grandmother were sisters rather than mother-daughter,” said paleontologist Fred Spoor, according to an Associated Press report. The AP news story added that this surprising finding “makes it unlikely that Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis.” Moreover, it “discredits that iconic illustration of human evolution that begins with a knuckle-dragging ape and ends with a briefcase-carrying man.”

Please pay attention to this paragraph:

But what does that all mean? That there is no evolution? No, I think evolution is a solid fact, established by the fossil record. The nature of 500 million years ago is bewilderingly different from what we have today, and it is pretty clear that there has been an immense change over time. But the idea that this evolution happened only via Darwinian mechanisms – and, especially, in a completely random way – seems to be a philosophical presupposition, not an empirically established fact. There might well be more to the origin of life and man than our modern icons – and their committed preachers – tell us.

As you see, the writer advocates intelligent design, but he believes that there was an evolution too. But who listens in this age of secularism's domination in all spheres of life including science?