h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The existence or nonexistence of intermediate hominid fossils in the Far East is of little significance in the evolutionary history of humanity, since the evidence so far suggests that the major evolution occurred in Africa. At best, ancient oriental homind fossils may be of use in determining whether modern Homo Sapiens arose solely in Africa, or whether there was significant multiregional evolution involved as well, or some idea about hominid migrations, but that's about the limit of their importance.

While some paleontologists can speculate excessivley, the Javan fossil wasn't just a tooth. According to the talkorigins website, Java Man was:

"Discovered by Eugene Dubois in 1891 near Trinil on the Indonesian island of Java. Its age is uncertain, but thought to be about 700,000 years. This find consisted of a flat, very thick skullcap, a few teeth (which may belong to orang-utans). The following year a femur was found about 12 meters away (Theunissen 1989). The brain size is about 940 cc. The femur is fully modern, and many scientists now believe that it belongs to a modern human."

Then there are numerous other ancient more-human-than ape hominid fossils, mostly African , but some from Java and China.

Picking one of the least good examples, making serious mistakes when talking about what was actually found, ignoring other finds from the same area and then erroneously exaggerating the importance of the fossil shows either the poor quality of the writer's sources, their desire to bend the evidence towards their argument, or both.

The guy could at least get his Creationist things right. It is the Nebraska Man that turned out ot be a pig.