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1. ADAM & EVE?A witty Evolutionist remarked in a newspaper-letter recently that fossils and/or replicas of e.g.Java Man, Mrs. Ples, Lucy etc. can usually beseen almost everywhere in museums as 'proof' forEvolution, but that the 'fossils' of 'Adam and Eve'(as 'proof' for the Bible) were always'conspicuously absent' from these exhibits. Hisconclusion: 'Christianity is a fairy tale'! Now, exactlywho is it that asserts that frogs can turn intoprinces ... Christianity or Evolution? It isEvolution that is the fairy tale, not Christianity.

The Bible says:The fool hath said in his heart, There isno God.(Ps.14:1).

2. ARCHAEOPTERYX. 2.1 Onpage 110of his book'Evolution: The Challenge Of The Fossil Record' (1985), Duane Gishsays, Evolutionists can produce only a single creature -one single fossil creature for which it is possible toproduce even a semblance of an argument. That creatureis, of course, Archaeopteryx

, of which five fossil specimenshave been found in Upper Jurassic rocks (assumed byevolutionary geologists to be about '150 million years' inage). All have been found in the Solnhofen Plattenkalk of

Franconia (West Germany). 2.2 However, In the

March-June 1985 issues of the British Journal OfPhotography ,Archaeopteryxwas declared a 'carefullycontrived hoax'by some of the leading scientists inEngland, i.e. Fred Hoyle, R.S. Watkins, N.C.

Wickramasinghe, J. Watkins, R. Rabilizirov &L.M. Spencer. 2.3 See also: (a)W.J. Broad, 'AuthenticityOfBird Fossil Is Challenged', pp.C1, C14, New York Times (7 May 1985)(b)T.Nield, 'Feathers Fly Over Fossil Fraud', New Scientist 1467:49-50 and (c)G.Vines, 'Strange Case Of Archaeopteryx Fraud', New Scientist 1447:3.

3. THE 'AUSTRALOPITHECINES'.3.1 Only Local Evolutionists Support

'Maropeng'. Much publicity followed thediscovery of skulls/fragments belonging to theso-called Australopithecines, e.g. the TaungChild, Mrs. Ples (including Lucy) and others.Few people, however, enjoy access tointernational literature wherein opinionssometimes differ widely from tht of which wemay encounter in the local, pro-evolution Press,

which appears to prefer behaving politically-correctly (e.g. by boosting 'Maropeng') instead ofopting for journalistic integrity.

3.2 Fraudulent Skull Measurements. A numberof reputable scientists from elsewhere feel thatthe Australopithecines were nothing more thanapes. Fraudulent measurements of certain skulls(to 'prove' Evolution) have e.g. apparently notbeen ruled out: (a)Overall, the revisionary calculationsof Australopithecine skulls have led to reductions of theircalculated volumes. The total percentage differencesamount to 157,91 [%] (Gerald Duffert, 'Some Implications OfVariant Cranial Capacities For The Best-PreservedAustralopithecine Skull Specimens' Creation Research Society

Quarterly, Sept. 1983, p.100). (b)The apelike profile ofAus-

tralopithecus is so pronounced that its outline can besuperimposed on that of a female chimpanzee with aremarkable closeness of fit, and in this respect and others itstands in strong contrast to modern man. (J.S. Weiner, 'TheNatural History Of Man',1973). (c) The hypothesis that brainenlargement marked the beginning of man was longpopular, but went out of fashion with the discovery that theendocranial volumes of the Australopithecine group werenot larger than those of gorillas. (Elwin L. Simons, 'PrimateEvolution: An Introduction To Man's Place In Nature', p.278, 1972).

3.3 Keith's Rubicon. It would thus appear as ifthe dimensions of the Australopithecine-skulls(Adolescent = 430 cc./ Adult = 550 cc. - 600 cc.) all fallwell below the minimum 'homonid' skull-size, or

Keith's Rubicon (Sir Arthur Keith), of 750 cc., toqualify as a probable 'ancestor' to humans.Vance Ferrell B.A., M.A., B.D. says, TheAustralopithecines, like modern apes, had a wide range ofvarieties, but they are all apes.('The Evolution Handbook', EvolutionFacts Inc., p.539, 2001).

4. THE 'COELACANTH'.4.1 Used To Be 'Index Fossil'! Evolutionists

taught for many years that the Coelacanth (a'crossopterygian'fish and supposed 'index fossil'used to date sedimentary strata) was supposed to

have been extinct for '70 milllion years'... until a livespecimen was caught off the coast of SouthAfrica/Mocambique on 22 Dec.1938.

4.2 They Looked The Same! To add insult to

injury with this embarrassing find, the livespecimen looked exactly the same as the fossil-

specimen supposedly to be '70 million years'old! Nochanges had taken place in '70 million years' ... i.e.the fish didn't 'evolve'. Since then apparentlyeight more specimens have been found alive.

5. EMBRYO-FRAUD.5.1 Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). During his

university career Haeckel produced manyfraudulent pictures of the so-called 'remarkablesimilarities' between human- and animal-embryos (From time to time the pictures stillcrop up today in textbooks and on wallcharts as'fact'). Together with Darwin he also exercised asignificant influence in the rise ofCommunism.

5.2 Fraudster Dismissed. Haeckel waseventually dismissed from the University OfJena (Germany) for his extensive fraud i.r.o. theso-called 'similarities' between human- andanimal-embryos [Daniel Gusman, 'Scientific Origins Of NationalSocialism: Social Darwinism In Ernst Haeckel And The German Monist League ',p.xvi 1971].

6. 'EUGENICS'-SCIENCE.6.1Sir Francis Galton. Charles Darwin's cousin,

he propagated the idea of 'eugenics', i.e. that thesolution to society's problems were to 'put out'the disabled, the weak, the sick and the elderly.

6.2 Adolf Hitler. An ardent evolutionist, heapplied this philosophy with unbridled brutalityduring WWII. Reportedly 12 million people

perished in concentration camps alone, of which 6 million were Jews. [Otto Scott, 'Playing God', In 'ChalcedonReport', No. 247, p.1, Feb.1986 / Lord Russell Of Liverpool, 'The Scourge Of

The Swastika', Cassell & Co. Ltd, London 1954 / H.R. Trevor-Roper, 'TheLast Days Of Hitler', Pan Books Ltd, London - 1947].

7. HOPEFUL MONSTERS.7.1Richard Goldschmidt (1878-1958). In 1940

he introduced his concept of 'hopeful monsters'in the book 'The Material Basis Of Evolution'in terms ofwhich he believed in a type of 'mega-evolution',where one life-form originated from another typeof (totally different) life-form e.g. one day a fishlaid some eggs and instead of fishes, frogs were

hatched!7.2 Gould & Eldredge. The 'hopeful monster'

myth was almost given true credibility whenStephen J. Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972went and resuscitated the entire circus ... thistime 'scientifically' labeled 'punctuatedequilibrium' ('Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative ToPhyletic Gradualism' - 1972).

8. HORSE-EVOLUTION?8.1 Othniel C. Marsh. In the 1870's he claimed

that he had 'discovered' thirty (30) different'horse-fossils' in Wyoming and Nebraska. Hereconstructed the 'fossils'and arranged them in aseries called 'small-to-big-horse-evolution', butthe majority of (serious) scientists later rejectedhis so-called 'horse-evolution'.

8.2 Zap It Into The Zibi! Beautiful pictures ofMarsh's (false) 'small-to-big-horse-evolution'still crop up in textbooks and childrens' bookstoday[Charles Deperet, 'Transformation Of The Animal World', p.105 / G.A.Kerkut, 'Implications Of Evolution', p.149 1960 / Encyclopaedia Brittanica,Vol.7, p.13 1976].

9. INHERITANCE OF ACQUIREDCHARACTERISTICS.

9.1 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). In1809, long before Darwin in his book PhilosophieZoologique , heasserted that the giraffe got its longneck from stretching to reach the uppermostleaves on trees, and that birds got their webbedfeet from negotiating the water in rivers tosurvive.

9.2 You Can Be Taller! According to thisridiculous ideology, one can lengthen one's earsby constantly pulling on it, or lengthen one'sarms by repeatedly reaching for the jar on thehighest shelve in the kitchen (Be careful tostretch the legs in concert, otherwise thoseelbows will start dragging on the ground behindyou).

10. JAVA MAN.10.1 Eugene Du Bois. 'Java Man' was found by

Du Bois in 1891 near the village of Trinil in adamp place by the Solo River (Java). (a) First, hefound a skull cap. (b) A year later he found afemurfifty feet from where he had found the

skull cap. (c) Later, in another location, he foundthree teeth. He then assumed that these frag-ments were all from the same individual(!) andas much as a '1 million years' old. (d) He also foundtwo human skulls nearby indicating the sameapproximate age (known as the Wadjak Skulls).Du Bois dubbed his find Java Man(Pithecanthropus Erectus: 'Erect Apeman').(e) Du Bois spent most of the remainder of hislife lecturing and telling people about the half-human/half-ape bones that he had found in Javain 1891-1892. In 1922 he admitted that theWadjak-Skullwas an ape.

10.2It Was A Gibbon Ape. Du Bois announcedhis conviction that the Java-bones belonged to agibbon (ape) 15 years before his death.

11. LINGULA. This brachiopod-shellfish wassupposed to have been extinct since theOrdovician for'500 million years', but is alive now.

12. LUCY.12.1 Donald C. Johanson. Unearthed by

Johanson at Hadar, Ethiopia in 1975, Lucy wasdated at '3 million years B.P.' ('Before Present').Johanson and White classified Lucy as ape/man(Australopithecus Afarensis) and said that shehad 'massive V-shaped jaws in contrast to man'and was'embarrassingly un-homo like'.

12.2 Time Magazine. In 1977 Time Magazine

reported that Lucy had a tiny skull, a head like anape, a braincase-size the same as that of achimp, i.e. 450 cc., and was surprisinglyshortlegged. (Time, pp.68-69 7 November 1979).

12.3 Dr. Yves Coppens. In 1982, Dr. YvesCoppens appearing on BBC-TV, stated thatLucy's skull was like that of an ape.

12.4 Jeremy Cherfas. In 1983, Jeremy Cherfassaid that Lucy's ankle-bone (talus) tiltsbackwards like a gorilla, instead of forward as inhuman beings who need it so to walk upright, andconcluded that the differences between her andhuman beings were unmistakable (J.Cherfas, NewScientist, 97:172 -1982).

12.5 Susman & Stern. Susman and Stern (NewYork University) thought that her thumb was

apelike, her toes long and curved for tree-climbing and that she probably lived in trees likeother monkeys (Science Newsletter, p.4-1982). Johansonalso clearly based his theory on assumptionslinking two fossils 1609 km. apart (the otherbeing Mary Leakey's skull-find at Laetoli,Tanzania).

12.6 Lucy Was A Pigmy Chimp. Johanson andTim White, a colleague, finally conceded thatLucy was only an ape . A.W. Mehlert writes, Theevidence ... makes it overwhelmingly likely that Lucy was nomore than a variety of pigmy chimpanzee

, and walked thesame way (awkwardlyuprightly on occasions, but mostlyquadrupedal

). The 'evidence' for the alleged transformationfrom ape to man is extremely unconvincing.('News Note',

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Creation Research Society Quarterly, p.145-1985).

13. METASEQUOIA TREE.This 'Dawn Redwood'was supposed to have beenextinct from the Miocene ('not found in strata for thepast 135 million years'), but it is alive today!

14.MUTATION MYTHS.14.1 Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Hiroshima and

Nagasaki, in 1945, presented an 'evolution-paradise' for evolutionists who believed that anew, enhanced species could be produced byradiating populations with e.g. radio-activity.But only misery, sickness and death resulted

from these nuclear explosions in August 1945.Mutations are always degenerative and usuallyfatal within a generation or two. (H.J. Muller, 'AnimalSpecies And Evolution', p.170 Time, p.38, 11 Nov.1946). 12.2

14.2 Chernobyl. The Chernobyl-accident on 26Apr. 1986 were, in terms of the EvolutionaryTheory, supposed to have ushered in manybenefits for that particular community affected bythe explosion, but, instead of 'evolutionaryprogression', it brought only damage and death.

15. NEANDERTHAL MAN.15.1 Neander Valley. The Neanderthals had

their origin in the Neander Valley nearDsseldorf, Germany, after workers had blasted acave and found limb bones, pelvis, ribs, and a

skull cap. That now-famous 'Neanderthal-look'(but human beings in all other respects) can beprobably ascribed to (a) a great age for theNeanderthals (b) problems with diabetes andricketts as a result of chronic Vitamin D-deficiencies over many decades: Neanderthal Manmay have looked like he did, not because he was closelyrelated to the great apes, but because he had rickets. Thediet of Neanderthal Man was definitely lacking in Vitamin D,an article in the British publication Naturesuggested (Science Digest, 'Neanderthals Had Rickets', p.35 - February1971).

15.2 In Suit Of Chain Armour. In 1908 a typicalNeanderthal-skeleton was found in Poland,buried in a suit of chain armour that was not yetfully rusted(Nature, 'Neanderthal In Armour', p.587 - 23 April 1908).

15.3 Indian Skulls. Two Neanderthal-like skulls

were found in Santa Barbara, California in 1923.Researchers recognised that they were justIndian skulls. The Neanderthals (and Cro-Magnon Man) were probably just racial typessimilar to ourselves.

16. NEBRASKA MAN.16.1 Grafton Smith. A single molar tooth, found

by Smith in 1922, magically 'evolved' intoNebraska Man in a matter of days!

16.2 Extinct Pig? In 1928 it was discovered thatthe molar tooth belonged to an 'extinct' pig,although living specimens of the pig were foundin Paraguay in 1972. Grafton Smith wasKnightedfor his efforts in making known his

funded $80 000 by the 'Rockefeller Foundation'to continue research on this 'colossal find' nearPeking, China. Black named it SinanthropusPekinensis ('China Man From Peking').22.2 R.Milner says in 'Encyclopedia Of Evolution', p.359 (1990):The heavy-boned (Peking) homonid skull featuredprominent brow ridges and a somewhat smaller braincase(about 1000 cc.) than modern humans (1500 cc.) ... But justwhat had been excavated? A living site? A burial ground? Aplace of ritual cannibalism? ... Peking Man was representedmainly by skulls - hardly any post-cranial material. Not apelvis or a rib. Just skulls. And the openings at heir bases,the foramen magnums, had been widened and smashed, asif someone had wanted to scoop out the brains. Oursubmission is thatthe stonetools that were foundon the site were not evidence of toolsbeing newlydiscovered or developed by 'homonids evolving',but rather evidence of tools being used bymodern humans to kill apes and smash or scoopout skulls to eat the brains.

23. P ILTDOWN MAN.23.1 Piltdown Man was 'found' in a gravel bed byCharles Dawson, a Sussex lawyer, at PiltdownCommon, Retching (Sussex) in England in1909/1910. His 'find' comprised a small portionof unusually thick parietal bone, and in 1911 healso found another larger piece of bone, part ofthe frontal region of a skull, including a portionof the ridge extending over the left eyebrow.

23.2 Together with Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward(Head: Dept. Geology, British Museum),Grafton Elliot Smith (renowned Brain Specialist)and Dr. Arthur Keith (Anatomist), he thencontrived Eoanthropus Dawsoni ('Dawson'sDawn Man'),supposedly '300 000 years'old. Thediscovery was officially announced on 16December 1912. 23.3 Captain St. Barbe andMajor Marriott, amateur paleontologists fromSussex, reportedly surprised Dawson on separateoccasions in his office where he was stainingbones. 23.4 The hoax was exposed in 1953 byKenneth Oakley(British Museum-Geologist) andJoseph Weiner (Oxford University-Anthropologist). In 1955 Weiner, chief detectivein the case, published the book, 'The Piltdown Forgery'.

He said,Every important piece proved a forgery. PiltdownMan was a fraud from start to finish! (Alden P. Armanac, 'ThePiltdown Hoax', Reader's Digest, October 1956, p.182).

22. RHODESIAN MAN. Discovered in a cave inRhodesia in 1921, a team of anthropologists andartists then quickly tried their best to turn himinto a half-ape/half-human creature. Acompetent anatomist examined the fragmentsand declared it a normal human being.

23. TUATARA. This beakheaded reptile wassupposed to be extinct since Cretaceous for '135million years', but can be found alive today.

'fabulous find'.

17. NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS.17.1 Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). He

theorised, in 1734, that 'rapidly-rotatingnebulae' organised itself into our Solar Systemwith its planets and moons. He also asserted thatit was the spirits of the deceased that revealedthis information to him during a sance!

17.2 Zero Credibility. It is interesting now tosee out of which suspect-source the 'highlyrespectable' 'Nebular Hypothesis' had it origins.Fewer and fewer scientists also today still supportthe (evolutionary) 'Big Bang Theory'.18. NEOPILINA. This segmented deep-seamollusk was supposed to have been extinct for'500 million years',yet it is living today.

19. NUTCRACKER MAN ('NM').19.1NMwas found by Louis Leakey in 1959 in theOlduvai Gorge in East Africa (namedZinjanthropus Boisei). NM ('Nutcracker Man')was dated at '600 000 years' old. The Pressapparently pre-ferred the epithet 'NutcrackerMan' because it had a jaw larger than its skull(mismatched parts?). 19.2 In 1961, potassium-argon radio-dating (a notoriously inaccuratedating method) showed NMto be '1,75 million years'old. 19.3 The C-14 method (also unreliable)

indicated that NM was less than '10 100 years' (!)old. 19.4 Leakey eventually conceded thatNutcracker Man was the skull of an ape.

20. ORCE MAN.20.1 The Australian newspaper, Daily Telegraph,published the story 'Ass Taken For Man' on 14May 1984. The skull that had been found inSpain and promoted as 'the oldest example of man inEurasia'. 20.2 Orce Man (after a Spanish town)was eventually shown by (genuine) scientists tobe just the skull-fragment of a 4-month olddonkey! The embarrassed Spanish officials had todespatch 500 letters to cancel a 3-day symposium'to discuss the find'.

21. ORGUEIL-METEORITE.21.1 In 1861 someone took some dead microbesand covered it with what looked like meteorite-material. The motive was to prove that lifeoriginally arrived from outer space. The hoaxwas fortunately discovered [Scientific American, p.52 Jan.1965]. 21.2 It often so happens that conclusionsof reputable scientists are ignored in spite ofextremely speculative 'discoveries' e.g. the'meteorite from Mars' containing 'deadorganisms'(in the 1990's).

22. PEKING MAN.Peking Man emerged from a town garbage dumpin the 1920's thanks to Davidson Black, who was

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We are setting up this laboratory to fileaway teeth and stain bone-fragments withpotassium-bichromate to make it lookmore ancient. Then we will announce ourastounding find and call it Piltdown Man.This way we will get Knighted muchquicker ... Evolution takes too long!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Information, Illustration & Sources as suppliedby and quoted in Vance Ferrell B.A.,M.A.,B.D.,

'Science vs. Evolution'and 'The EvolutionHandbook', Evolution Facts Inc. (2001)

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