dhw: I'm not sure what you mean by “Were they HUMAN absolutely”. Are you saying that all the hominid/hominin fossils belonged to one species of human, but that species was not homo sapiens (modern man)? Why would God specially create one form of human, and then...what? Specially create another form? Or are you saying homo sapiens evolved from another form?-The simplest view is that God controlled evolution and started a line from monkeys destined to become H. sapiens over a period of time. There was a degree of humanness from the beginning.