Article published at: MercatorNetAuthor: Michael Cook
Recently, archaeologists in Spain (Sima de Huesos) found a skull from a person 530,000 years ago. They have called it Cranium 14. It belonged to a girl who was between 5 to 12 years old and had a distortion which affects 6 in every 200,000 humans.
This kind of distortion happens even now-a-days: "It is distressing for parents. The head can be large and misshapen, the eyes can bulge out. The children can be blind and deaf. Their limbs may be deformed. They may have seizures and feed poorly. Cranio-facial surgery works wonders and after many, many operations, an affected child can lead something like a normal life."
In our days, if parents knew that their child is to be born with this distortion, it is highly probable they would abort the child.
However, even 530,000 years ago, when people were supposed to be beasts and not care for each other, the girl managed to reach at least the age of 5, and perhaps even 12. This would have meant a lot of care and love from her parents.
A commentator says: "This is a very powerful article. Early humans, who barely survived day-by-day, were willing to say yes and love their disabled child. This contrasts with the great evil of today where our society, with all its modern comforts and medical technologies, would opt to kill this child in the womb. Humanity has not progressed, but has regressed where we behave merely as animals instead of humans with souls. "
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