(AgapePress) - A scientist who believes the literal account of creation in the Book of Genesis says the recent announcement that skulls of the supposedly "oldest known humans" have been found in Africa is another example of secular scientists manipulating data to fit their own theory.

This week, virtually every major news organization reported that paleontologists in Africa unearthed the skulls of two adults and a child estimated to be 160,000 years old. But Dr. Tas Walker with the group Answers in Genesis says those remains are probably of people who migrated to modern-day Ethiopia shortly after the Great Flood told of in the Old Testament account of Noah.

Walker says that according to the Book of Genesis, Earth is about 6,000 years old. "Humans repopulated this earth after the Flood about four-and-a-half thousand years ago, and the current world population is exactly consistent with that," Walker says. "If you take typical conservative growth rates of human populations, it fits in exactly with that date in the Bible."

Walker says there are major problems with the dating process used to establish the approximate ages of human remains.

"Radioactive dating depends upon assumptions about the past. So as a geologist and someone who's used the argon method, I'm skeptical of the dates -- and most geologists don't believe them either unless the result comes out in the ballpark of what they anticipate or would like the date to be."

Walker says if the world were as old as 160,000 years, it should be "absolutely teeming with humans' -- but he says there is neither the population nor the human remains to support that model.

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