The Rift

<p>In 1960 Dr. Jonathan Leakey discovered a fossilized jaw fragment in the Olduvai Gorge of the East African Rift—the first specimen of what is now known as Homo habilis an anthropoid (human-like) creature that some think may have been a human ancestor—a debatable point at best. H. habilis is thought to have lived around two million years ago.</p><p>In 1999 a team of paleoanthropologists went to an area near the Olduvai Gorge to a site known today as Lake Eyasi to do some routine research relating to the supposed connection between H. habilis and H. sapiens (modern man) with a plan to study a creature that had been extinct for 1.4 million years. Or so it was thought.</p><p>What they found was nothing short of a nightmare in which they found themselves examining their faith and its interaction with science that they thought they knew.</p>