Ape skulls? Human? Hominid?

But we have a series of specimens that have increases in skull capacity over time already. Not nearly as many as we'd like of course and not yet enough to sort our line out of the tangle in the earlier times.They are hard to come by, but they keep turning up.

The suggestion is to move the Chimps from genus Pan to genus Homo as they are close enough for that. They are not the same species so they would not be called sapiens. They would be Homo troglodytes instad of Pan troglodytes for example. (one of the 3 chimp species).

If we were created all at once all done and final you would not expect to see a series of species that are more and more like us as we get closer in time. That is not explained by creation ideas.It isn't just the differences in form but also the time relationship between them. This makes no sense from the creationist view.

What sidelined is saying (and I think I'm not putting words into his mouth, just restating what he has to say) is we only have the terms "apes" and "humans" and our language is stuck with those (in popular terms anyway).However, what we find fossils of are things that are not clearly either. That is where rough terms like "ape-man" come from.As I noted they aren't just showing aspects of both current apes and current humans but there is also a number of specimens that mark points in time that show more aspects of humans over time.I noticed one poster today commented that these simply show adaptations to changing conditions. These conditions were supposed to have changed from the flood (about 4500 years ago?) to a point in time when records should show these (the romans were into africa before 2,000?). The idea that these forms are laid out in this order (ignoring the real ages) and changed in just this way in only 100 generations seems a bit absurd to me.

Yes, IIRC, Linneaus did that at first.

I think flawed is a bit strong here. It is simply a reflection of the fact that we have a continuum and are trying to make it all tidy and boxed up. It is easier for us to handle things in neat little piles and if the edges get mixed together we don't like it. Tough! They are mixed.