So-Called "Evidences" Proven To Be A Hoax
SO-CALLED "EVIDENCES" PROVEN TO BE A HOAX
Personally, if evolution can be proved, then I will believe it; but, I want PROOF, not a theory or a guess. Years ago this question was not settled in my mind and I decided to search out the truth for myself. When I finished, I was astounded at the microscopic amount of evidence for evolution and the existence of many so-called "facts" which turned out to be hoaxes. Let us concern ourselves, for the moment, with the hoaxes that have been trotted out to the public as "proof of evolution."
God says in Genesis 1:27, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Evolutionists deny this and one of the "missing links" they offer in the place of God's declaration is the "Nebraska Man." The Nebraska Man or Hespero-pithecus. This is probably one of the most famous as scientists tell us he is one of the oldest. Our text books have glamorized him with the name of Hespero-pithecus Man. This name is derived from the Greek word "hesperos" meaning "evening" and "pithecus", or the Western Ape as he is often called. This was the so-called "missing link" presented by Professor H. H. Newman of the University of Chicago at the famous Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, years ago. William Jennings Bryan, in defense of the Bible, said "he thought the evidence presented was too scanty to base upon it such far reaching conclusions." Many of the so-called experts only laughed and scoffed at his conclusions. Most of our colleges and institutions of higher learning, high schools and grade schools are teaching evolution as a fact, not a theory. This man is still carried in our text books all over the country as the "missing link." Upon this man was built a whole prehistoric race in America.
Figure 1. "Mr. and Mrs. Hesperopithicus."
"Mr. and Mrs. Hesperopithicus. Figures are redrawn from the "Illustrated London News" in 1922. The explanatory text, "The poise of the head should be noted, large muscles...back and shoulders...to counteract the prognathous head and heavy jaw...a simian character." It is amazing what can be guessed from the tooth of a wild pig. Reprinted by permission. Genesis and Early Man, by Arthur C. Custance, Ph.D.
Let us examine the evidence presented. The evidence consisted in its entirety of one, single, solitary TOOTH! When we see this man who is made to look like but a step from ape to man, remember, it is based upon only one tooth. This is almost unbelievable! The design of the face, amount of hair, bone structure, height, size of head, arms, feet and facial expression are all constructed in plaster of paris according to the imagination of the artist.
Since the infamous Scopes trial, when many of the "experts" laughed at Mr. Bryan, the entire skeleton belonging to the tooth has been found. It belonged to a peccary, a species of pig that is now extinct on our continent. Who is the laugh really on? Do you know your children are being taught this nonsense in our public schools throughout the nation. The text books still show the pictures of part-ape and part-man, which is an absolute lie. Remember, when your child is taught this, he is taught to call God a liar. He cannot believe in evolution and the Bible too. The one tooth turned out to be that of a wild pig. Just one of the many hoaxes of those trying to establish a false claim. A long, long way from being the ape-man a million years old.
It is always safe to believe God. Just as He stated "He created," He also promised, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." (1 Corinthians 1:19).
"Prudent" is the Greek word ‘sunetos" and means "a mental putting together", i.e. acquired human philosophy.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31. Which is true? "In the beginning God created" or man's Theory of Evolution? God's answer is simple.
"God forbid: yea, let God be true but every man a liar." (Romans 3:4)
Another hoax the evolutionists would like you and me to believe is the "Java Ape-Man." Let us examine the so-called "evidence." The Java Ape-Man.
Dr. Eugene Dubois went searching for the love of his life, the Myth of Evolution. While stationed in Java as a physician with the Dutch Army in 1891, he found a small piece of a top of a skull, a fragment of a left thigh bone and three molar teeth. These very fragmentary findings were hailed as the most distinctive portions of the human frame. Remember, a small piece of a top of a skull, fragment of a left thigh bone and three molar teeth. "...and from these specimens we are able to reconstruct the entire being," rejoice the scientists.
These remains were not found together, but in a range of some fifty or seventy feet. They were not found at the same time, but within the space of a year. They were found in an Figure 2. So-Called "Evidence" For Java Man
http://www.soulwinners.com.au/images/Java_man.jpg old river bed mingled with much debris and many bones of other extinct animals. Dr. Dubois also found at this site some rather modern skulls, a fact he did not mention for thirty years for fear it would detract from his "ape-man." Dr. Dubois gave his discovery the name of Pithecanthropus Erectus. "Pithecus is the Greek word for ape..."anthropus" is the Greek word for man..."erectus" means standing up. The ape-man standing up. His birthday is said to have occurred some seven-hundred and fifty thousand years ago.
Figure 3. Pithecanthropus Reconstruction. This series of four photographs (A, B, C, D) shows the stages of reconstruction of Pithecanthropus erectus. (E) The Russian delegate to the 1958 Cairo Conference. Reprinted by permission from Genesis and Early Man, Arthur C. Custance, Ph.D.
Dr. Dubois gleefully brought his findings to the Third International Congress of Zoology at Leiden in 1855, only to find the men of Science thought them to be some sort of ape. Dubois locked up the fossils for 28 years, during which time the men of Science changed their views and said Pithecan- thropus Erectus was a man. Dubois had changed his mind also. He said Pithecanthropus Erectus was a gibbon. This is the basis for the world famous "Pithecanthropus Erectus" found in every museum and nearly every text book concerning the lineage of man. (He was later reclassified "Homo Erectus.")
Reconsider. The "remains" of Pithecanthropus Erectus were found in the sands of a river bed. They could not possibly have been preserved for seven-hundred and fifty thousand years in this manner. A petrified skeleton that turns to rock, encased in rock, could exist there for millions of years. But an un-petrified skeleton, buried in sand, would not even last five thousand years. If this were the case, they would be everywhere. A situation which, obviously, does not exist.
God describes Dr. Dubois and these scientists in James 1:8, "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." "Perish the thought" of evolution or else perish in your unbelief.
John 3:15 is so true, "...That whosoever believeth in him (Jesus Christ) should not perish, but have eternal life.' God also states in Isaiah 42:5,
"Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:"
One may say, "Why is it so important to decide for or against creation? If one follows the logic of the evolutionist, that man will evolve from a lower order and then progressively onward and upward, higher and higher, he will see no need of a Savior. The evolutionist feels that he has no need of God, that man is an answer unto himself. They worship the creature more than the Creator. (Romans 1:25) A person who believes that they are simply on the upper rung of the ladder of evolution with a poor protozoan or amoeba at the bottom and who-knows-what at the top ... does not believe in God, for God said He created man and woman, every living creature, each nook and cranny of the universe, and the worlds beyond ... WITH A WORD! Mankind does not get better and better. God also sums up man's condition with a word, and that word is, "sinner!"
"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23) Actually, Friend, if evolution was a crime ... there isn't even enough evidence on the books to convict it!
We continue with another episode of "Dear Pithe- canthropus." Some seventy years later a startling statement was made by Science Newsletter. A bewildered creature, a man, but deeply marked with the brand of the ape has emerged at last from the silence of 250,000 years and "Pithecanthropus" at last has a brother." Where was Pithecanthropus' brother found? In the center of Java. A newspaper article about the discovery stated, "Perfect skull of Prehistoric Man, missing link is found. Professor Heberlein, of the Netherlands Government Medical Service, has discovered at Trinal in Central Java, a complete skull of the ape-like creature termed by some "the missing link" and by Science, "Pithecanthropus Erectus." Professor Heberlein's find, which is complete and sound, will be kept in Dutch East India, as the transportation of such relics is prohibited. A very handy situation! This marvelous find turned out to be the knee bone of an extinct elephant. So much for Java Man!
We find that L.S.B. Leakey, while gloating about his "Missing Link" find in September of 1960, betrays the fact that he still believes in this bit of trickery. (National Geographic, September 1960, page 424.) God's answer to atheism is,
"Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" Romans 9:20.
Heidelberg Man And now we have the case of the Heidelberg Jaw or "Man." We find him reconstructed and in exhibition in museums and pictured in all the books. He was found by Dr. Schoetensack in the sands (There it is again!) of the Mauer River, near Heidelberg, Germany. That is why it is called the Mauer Jaw or the Heidelberg Jaw or by the high-sounding Latin name of "Homo (man) Heidelbergensis." It was first said to be 750,000 years old. Later, it was said to be only 375,000 years old. Just any wild guess will do, one is as good as the other!
One distinguished scientist showed that a skull of a modern Eskimo had the same appearance and peculiarities of the Heidelberg Jaw. Another scientist said he had discovered in the South Pacific a whole race of South Sea Islanders, all of whom have massive jawbones like the "Homo Heidel- bergensis." Another scientist said one can walk down the streets of any city and see men everywhere who have Heidelberg jaws, great ... heavy ... lower jaws.
All it took, then, was plaster of paris. The features of the ape-like form were made out of sheer imagination and placed in the museum and it was said, "This is a demonstration of the evolution of man". Which is right? That God created all mankind; or, the atheist with all his theories?
Answer: God states in Isaiah 44:24-25,
"Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish."
Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man is the next man in our parade of hoaxes. Now, let us examine their so-called "evidence." In 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur fossilogist, brought to Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, eminent paleontologist at the British Museum, some bones and primitive implements he said he found in a gravel pit at Piltdown, Sussex, the southern part of England.
Figure 4. Piltdown Man Fragments.
Above is the so-called "evidence" for Piltdown Man, which was ultimately exposed by a splendid article from the Popular Science Monthly, entitled "The Great Piltdown Hoax". http://www.bing.com/images/ www.cdb.ucl.ac.uk.PiltDawnMan.jpg
He brought a piece of jaw, two molar teeth, and a piece of a skull. These were acclaimed by the anthropologists as possibly one-half million years old. Dr.Woodward, in honor of the discoverer, named the creature, "Eoanthropus Dawsoni". "Eos" is the Greek word for dawn, "anthropus" is the Greek word for man ... so "Eoanthropus" is "Dawn Man" of Sussex, England ... the Piltdown Man.
Oh, what a literature they created on him! How they manufactured him and put him in the museum and made pictures of him for the books. The Encyclopedia Britannica calls the "Piltdown Man" second in importance only to "Pithecanthropus Erectus" and we know about him!
Henry Fairfield Osborn, the great American paleontologist of the American Museum of Natural History said, "Eoanthropus... its darkly colored and thoroughly fossilized skull fragments are intermingled with fragments of grinding teeth of Proboscidians, (other fossil animals) of unquestionable Upper Pliocene age. Eoanthropus, the Dawn Man of Sussex, now appears to be of greater geologic age than Pithecanthropus Erectus, Trinal ape-man". On and on they went about the Piltdown Man. Eoan- thropus, from Sussex, England. And lo...and behold...in the October, 1956, issue of the Reader's Digest was summarized a splendid article from the Popular Science Monthly, entitled "The Great Piltdown Hoax". The whole hoax was exposed! The jaw-bone was that of an ape that had died only fifty years before. The teeth were filed down to disguise their original design and shape, and both teeth and bones were artificially colored with bichromate of potash. Out of that they created the great Piltdown Man and placed him in the museum and put his pictures in the books from which we teach our children and to which we have reference on our shelves.
Oh, how the "giants" did fall for this trick in their efforts to support the theory of evolution. How they did explain and assume and theorize and defend this "great archaeological discovery".
God describes these atheistic, evolutionary, intellectuals in
2 Timothy 3:7, "Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." The truth of God's word is revealed by Jesus Christ, Himself, in John 14:6.
"…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Even the great L.S.B. Leakey fell into the trap! Dr. Leakey is so anxious to assume Genesis is wrong when it says God created the first man and woman (whose names were Adam and Eve) that he wrote a book about evolution called Adam's Ancestors. The book was originally published before the Piltdown material was exposed as a fraud, but then Dr. Leakey's fourth edition of the same book was published seven years after the hoax was admitted. Dr. Leakey added more material to bring the book up to date, but the original text was unchanged. Thus we find two versions of the Piltdown affair in the same book. God's Word never contradicts itself. At one place, Leakey states, "the jaw was that of a modern ape, while the skull was that of a modern type man..." At another place he says, "The famous Piltdown skull agrees with Homo Sapiens (modern man) in this one respect (that the brow ridges are similar to ours) but differs markedly in others, and so is ruled out from the species". At one place in his book, Dr. Leakey says that the skull is the type of modern man, and at another place in the same book he says that it cannot be considered to be the same species. As an excuse for this he complains, "On several occasions in the past I tried to get permission to make a detailed study of the original Piltdown fossils, but on each occasion was only shown them for a few brief moments and not allowed to examine them properly, and was given a cast to work with." The Piltdown Hoax shows the true nature of evolutionary scientists, they can see a great deal of what they wish to see and overlook a great deal of what they do not wish to see. The Lord's warning to every person is as Paul instructed Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:20.
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust (i.e., God's Word), avoiding profane and vain (empty) babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." Which is true? God's statement that He created all mankind; or, the atheist's statements with all his theories, and hoaxes? The Lord answers in the Bible,
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in the earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him." Colossians 1:16.
Neanderthal Man And now we travel to Düsseldorf, where the Dussel River runs through a beautiful little gorge called the Neanderthal Gorge. On one side is a limestone cliff. In that cliff a few bones were found and controversy raged again. Scientists hotly disputed the significance of the discovery of the bones as to their age, and whether they were human or animal or mere abnormalities.
Actually, the first Neanderthal Skull was found in a quarry in Gibraltar but was completely neglected for sixteen years. Why? Because the evolutionists hoped to find a living example of the missing link somewhere in the unexplored areas of the world.
If evolution were true, we should find mankind in all stages of change everywhere about us, but we do not. The controversy concerning Neanderthal found in 1856 was resolved by most anthropologists deciding that Neanderthal was "bestial and gorilloid." Further, that he walked with a slouch, unable to straighten his knees, with his head thrust forward. In 1956, a symposium was held in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Neanderthals. William S. Straus, Jr. (Anthropologist of Johns-Hopkins University) and A.J.E. Cave (Department of Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London) were permitted to examine the remains. Straus and Cave found the skeleton very fragmentary.
They also pronounced the skeleton to be in abnormal health condition and stated it could not be used to provide a picture of a healthy, normal Neanderthalian. A counter opinion was given. "...If he could be reincarnated and placed in a New York subway, provided he were bathed, shaved and dressed in modern clothing, it is doubtful whether he would attract any more attention than some of its other denizens," they said.
Figure 5. Neanderthal Reconstruction.
Figure 5. This Neanderthal skull (A) from La Chapelle-Aux was in due course reconstructed (B) for the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, to show how our "primitive ancestor" looked. It was reconstructed (C) by J.H. McGregor to show how "modern" he really might have been in appearance. Genesis and Early Man, by Arthur C. Custance, Ph.D One thing that is not a hoax; but, the truth, is found in John 5:24.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."
Zinjanthropus. (Nutcracker Man).
Zinjanthropus was found in 1959 in the Olduvai Gorge in Eastern Africa by L.S.B. Leakey. "Zinj" being the ancient Arabic word for Eastern Africa and "anthropus" is the Greek word for man, and then "Boisei" in honor of Charles Boise, a benefactor of Leakey's. "Zinj", as he was affectionately called by Dr. Leakey and his wife, was dated by the Potassium-argon process and assumed to be 1,750,000 years old.
Figure 6. Zinjanthropus Reconstructions.
Left: Figure 6. Zinjanthropus The original fossil skull which formed the basis of the three reconstructions of Zinjan- thropus which have been redrawn below: Zinjanthropus, as drawn (A) for the Sunday Times of London, 5 April 1964; (B) by Neave Parker for Dr. L. S. B. Leakey and published in the Illustrated London News and Sketch, 1 January 1960; (C) by Maurice Wilson for Dr. Kenneth P. Oakley. Redrawn by Arthur C. Custance, Genesis and Early Man. Reprinted by permission.
Dr. Leakey wrote in much detail about this relative of near man, and evolutionary "dead-end." But in 1960, he wrote at great length about "Zinj" describing his diet, how he met his death, his approximate age of 18, what kind of tools he made, and even a portrait was painted of him. If you had given him a cap to hide the fact that he had no forehead, he could go anywhere in the country today and not be noticed. Or so the artist thought. Now, it is thought that the tools found with him were not made by him, but were used on him!
Dr. Leakey and his wife, both now dead, had been laboring in the Olduvai Gorge since 1931 in search of the first man. The work is now being carried on by their son, Richard, and his wife. They believe the wall of this gorge, being part of Africa's Great Rift Valley, was suddenly thrust up by an earthquake allowing us to look into a cross-section of the earth's crust. They saw it as a gigantic "layer-cake" of archaeology with the oldest layers at the bottom and the youngest layers at the top. A nice theory, but it just didn't work out that way. As we mentioned, "Zinj" was tested by the Potassium Argon method. Not "Zinj's" skull, but the strata in which he was found! That does make a difference. Tests were made on other material in the same strata by Carbon-14, showing 10,000 years old. WHICH IS RIGHT? Carbon-14 which gives 10,000 or Potassium Argon which gives 1,750,000 years old? Dr. Whitelaw, a professor in nuclear engineering, claims it to be less than 7,000 years. Tests were also made on the strata found above and below "Zinj." The strata below him tested younger than that above him, although it should have been the other way around. However, the National Geographic neglected to mention this fact in their September, 1960, article "A Clock For The Ages."
There is an area in the state of Colorado. If you were buried in the volcanic tuff which is everywhere on the topsoil of that area, and someone exhumed you one-hundred years from now and tested the topsoil in which you lay, they would assume you were as many thousands of years old as the volcanic tuff in which you were buried. You can see the fallacy of testing the strata in which "Zinj" was found in an attempt to determine the age of his skull.
We might mention the different methods of age determination, Florine, Helium, Carbon-14, Potassium Argon and others, all depend on many assumptions. They assume that the radioactive elements or the testing elements decay at the same constant rate everywhere, all the time, with none ever being added. This is simply not the case. Potassium Argon has a further disadvantage in that argon is a gas and can escape from the material. Carbon-14 is the most known of all methods and is not accurate over 40,000 years. Creation Research Society Journal (June, 1970) reports that a living mollusk was tested by Carbon-14 and found to be dead for 3,000 years. The evolutionary scientists reply to this is, "All factors were not taken into consideration. You did not calibrate your mathematical conclusions." What factors? Such as being found alive and tested with their criteria, which gave an erroneous result of being dead for 3,000 years? It is an amazing thing, that after all their "factors" are considered, and they make their mathematical "calibrations" to adjust their findings, they usually come up with the age they assumed at the beginning of their test!
You may ask, "What is the point of all this?" With a few fragments in each case, an ape-man is reconstructed according to the fancy of the artist who determines posture, stature, size, appearance, skin color, hair. Whole families are built depicting the lifestyle and the appearance of these weird creatures. They are all constructed imaginatively!
It would be impossible to show exactly how a man looked after he had been dead just a few years if you only had his skeleton? Even forensic artists, who help in crime solving, can't make an accurate representation of an unknown victim. They can guess as to height, sex, general health if they have the right material. They can guess ethnic background and supply standard skin depths in computer remodeling. But, what kind of nose did they have, did their ears stick out, what color hair? Exact facial appearance is only a guess! There are many variables. But wild-eyed, imaginative anthropologists create these weird creatures by the thousand, many times on the basis of a handful of bone fragments.
It is estimated that there are three-hundred replicas of the Piltdown Man in museums, around the world. It is estimated that nearly one million persons annually pass through the American Museum of Natural History in New York and view, according to the artist's fancy, the reconstruction of Pithecanthropus, Heidelberg Man, Piltdown Man, and Neanderthal Man. They are supposed to be "The Ancestors of The Human Race." They are usually depicted as below: And the multitude of high school teachers and students, as well as the general public are never told how dubious and unscientific the representation of these figures are. They are pawned off in the name of science as being actual and factual, and nothing could be further from the truth! (See below.) Figure 7. Thomas Huxley's False Diagram
Figure 7. Thomas Huxley's False Dia- gram. Huxley falsified a diagram showing four skeletons, three of the primates of increasing size standing in line behind a skeleton of a man...to indicate that man was not the only creature who could stand upright...he posed the animal skeletons in an un- naturally upright position. Evolution or Creation, Arthur C. Custance, Ph. D.
Figure 8. The True Stance of Man and Ape.
Every person who has fallen into the trap of the evolutionist will point a finger at them in the day of judgment. They are responsible for condemning the souls of men to eternal Hell by causing them to doubt God's Word. The evolutionists dig in the dirt of this planet and they are, "Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:7.