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Homo Naledi

One of Creationist’s favorite points of ridicule of evolution is the mistaken presupposition that there is no evidence of transitional species, or that there are breaks in the chain of knowledge of transitional species.
The chain, broken or not, is still a chain. More missing links are yet to be found, others never will be found.

Homo Naledi was found deep inside a South African cave called Rising Star in 2013.
The expedition and excavation, it’s findings, shattered preconceptions and beginning hypotheses are documented in another YouTube video.
The video is a pretty amazing two hours and change. Along the way, witness the ecstatic delight and joy they express when they find their preconceived ideas are all wrong, they’ve discovered something previously unknown and will have to Science Out a fresh hypothesis.

Anyway, Creationist godsplainer, con-man, ex-con and all-round smarm Kent Hovind created a YouTube video disputing one of the very things he’s long insisted upon, yet another transitional species, this one in the human family, Homo Naledi.
When presented with exactly the type of evidence he’s long demanded, he typically backpedals muttering about ‘kinds’ again.

Compare the joy experienced by Lee Berger and his crew at Rising Star as they work hard in hazardous conditions in the field and as excruciatingly detailed work is carried out in laboratories with Hovind’s whiny apologetics from his bedroom.

Lee Berger and his inquisitive crew;

A couple of references;
From NPR
New York Times
National Geographic

Whiny Kent Hovind at home.

Kent, here’s a meme, you’ve earned it.

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I suppose it depends on whether one’s definition of theist allows for a non meddling non-conscious Spiritual Force of Nature.

As I take it, man made deities are essentially the anthropomorphization of nature, gods are non-corporeal and are minutely concerned with and meddle in human affairs.

Distilled to their essence, I think this a fair view of Theist’s beliefs.

In contrast, a non-conscious Spiritual Force of Nature cannot and therefore does not meddle, has no concerns.

As best I grok your question, it boils down to whether or not the conceptual non-conscious Spiritual Force of Nature is corporeal or not.

If this Spiritual Force is taken to be Nature itself, Nature exists, no belief is involved nor needed.

Since that’s un-theist, it’s Atheist.

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For a couple of decades and long before I’d heard of Baruch Spinoza, I held to a concept of a ‘Cosmic All’ that encompasses everything that exists, everything that has and will ever exist.

My synopsis was that God is “Is”. A much larger concept of god than any presented by man made and allegedly revealed scriptures.

I think I became Atheist before I knew what it meant. Whatever shards of faith in biblical god that remained were irrevocably shattered and pulverized once I began reading the bible with intent.