Palaeontological Evidence(continued)

"We've been through all this before! First there is the 'Hurrah' stage - led by the discoverers of the fossils. Next comes the 'Yes, maybe' stage - when other scientists get involved in the evaluation. Usually this is followed by the 'No, maybe not' stage and finally, in many cases, the 'We had our doubts all along 'stage. The problem is that the first stage gets the headlines." - Dr. Arthur Jones - Radio Bristol broadcast - September 25th, 1994
Ape-Men: Fact or Fancy?
In 1908, workmen digging in a gravel bed at Piltdown Farm, near Lewes in Sussex, discovered an almost complete skull. The cranium was human but the broken jawbone was ape-like. The find was therefore hailed as a transitional form; a genuine missing link! And so it was that Piltdown Man reigned supreme, becoming the classic proof for evolutionary dogma. However, in 1950 the 'King' was dethroned, for chemical tests revealed it was a huge hoax! The jaw bone, from a modern orang-utan, had been treated with potassium dichromate to make it appear old and the teeth had been filed down to resemble those of a man. It fooled the academic world for over forty years and influenced the beliefs of millions!!

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Peking Man - Near Peking in China,during the 1920s and 1930s, Jesuit priest, Teilhard de Chardin, (who incidently was involved in the Piltdown excavations),
together with Dr. D. Black discovered about 24 broken skulls in a layer of compressed ash some twenty two feet thick. The skulls, which all lacked the lower jaw bone, were broken at the base

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Java Man - Eugene Dubois, digging in Java in 1891, discovered an ape-like skull cap and this was followed a year later by a human thigh bone, discovered 14 metres away. Dubois claimed they belonged to the same individual, an upright walking ape - Java Man! He locked his find away and was not prepared to allow anyone to inspect the bones. Java Man became accepted as an ancestor to man. Thirty years later, in 1920, he admitted that he had found two human skulls on the island of Wadjak, at approximately the same level. (He hid them under the floorboards of his home). Had he revealed this at the time it is unlikely that Java Man would ever have been accepted as a transitional form.
"Both Peking Man and Java Man are now called Homo erectus ... Homo erectus and Homo sapiens… these two forms are both truly human…" Marvin Lubenow - Bones of Contention p.98-99.

Lucy - just half the ape she used to be!

In 1974, Donald Johansen dug up a three foot tall 'australopithecine', which he named Lucy. In actual fact only 40% of the skeleton was recovered. Dated at 3 million years, Lucy was heralded as our oldest-known ancestor. Your great, great, great, great (etc) grandma! Johansen claimed that she walked upright, basing this belief on a knee-joint, which he believed was similar to a human knee-joint. "When pressed he admitted that he had found it about one mile away from the main skeleton, and over 200 feet lower in the strata?" G. Chapman Apes and Men - fact sheet. Professor of Anatomy, Charles Oxnard, has shown "that they were simply apes and had little relevance to man's supposed evolution. Oxnard's conclusion was fully supported by Sir Solly

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Biology

Physics

Dating

Statistics

Creation

The Flood

Implications

Where does it all lead?

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