Femur Tales
Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI
Biblical Authority Ministries, March 19, 2026 (Donate)
For those following science news, a femur was found in
Europe and it sets off speculation after speculation! In the magazine NewScientist,
it reports the headline as,
“The first apes to walk upright
could have evolved in Europe”.[1]
This femur is immediately analyzed within the worldview of the
secular, evolutionary
religion. This is done without question. They automatically presume—as a
fact—that man evolved from apes in a uniformitarian
timeline, so apes at some point had to change to walk like man.
Spassov et al 2026
So, they find a femur, presume it is from Graecopithecus, and get excited (they named the specific specimen "Diva"). The femur, no doubt,
has unique aspects but not enough to be definitive even according to researchers. The final sentence of the NewScientist
piece reveals,
“So, it’s quite difficult to know
exactly what was the locomotor behaviour.”[2]
Stop for a moment and ponder this. The article is trying to
convince readers that they found something that might help their evolutionary
understanding of the problem of ape-to-man walking style. But in the end, they reveal that can’t really know if this
femur supposedly did what they suggested it could.
As a creationist, I love the find; but I openly oppose the religion of evolution by which it is interpreted. I don’t
believe man evolved from apes but were specially created by God on the sixth
day of creation. I look at this femur in light of what God says about
history.
The bone means the creature is dead. Thus, it died
after sin came into the world which began in Genesis 3. The bone
was found in rock layers that are considered post-Flood
as animals were migrating and repopulating in various places around the globe.
Some animals, like this one, ended up in a location where these creatures appear
to have gone extinct. It’s as simple as that.
So, finding a bone or femur of a creature that has died in
this sin-cursed and broken world should be more of a reminder of why we need a Savior
in Jesus Christ to save us from sin and death.
Bodie Hodge, Ken
Ham's son in law, has been an apologist defending 6-day creation and opposing
evolution since 1998. He spent 21 years working at Answers in Genesis as
a speaker, writer, and researcher as well as a founding news anchor for Answers
News. He was also head of the Oversight Council.
Bodie
launched Biblical Authority Ministries in 2015 as a personal
website and it was organized officially in 2025 as a 501(c)(3). He has spoken
on multiple continents and hosts of US states in churches, colleges, and
universities. He is married with four children.
Mr. Hodge earned a
Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale (SIUC). Then he taught at SIUC for a couple of years as a
Visiting Instructor teaching all levels of undergraduate engineering and
running a materials lab and a CAD lab. He did research on advanced ceramic
materials to develop a new method of production of titanium diboride with a
grant from Lockheed Martin. He worked as a Test Engineer for Caterpillar,
Inc., prior to entering full-time ministry.
His love of science was coupled with a love of history, philosophy, and theology. For about one year of his life, Bodie was editing and updating a theological, historical, and scientific dictionary/encyclopedia for AI use and training. Mr. Hodge has over 25 years of experience in writing, speaking and researching in these fields.
