The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 ArgumentsWilliams, William A. (William Asbury)
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The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
Williams, William A. (William Asbury)
Evolution
The bones of this precious Piltdown find consisted, at first, of a
_piece of the jaw bone, another small piece of bone from the skull_,
and a canine tooth, which the zealous evolutionists located in the
lower right jaw, when it belonged in the upper left; later, two molar
teeth and two nasal bones,—scarcely a double hand full in all. An
ape-man was “reconstructed” made to look like an ape-man, according to
the fancy of the artist. The artist can create an ape-man, even if God
could not create a real man! But scientists said the teeth did not
belong to the same skull, and the jaw could not be associated with the
same skull. Ales Hrdlicka says, “The jaw and the tooth belong to a
fossil chimpanzee.” Conscientious scientists said that the pieces of
the jaw and skull could not belong to the same individual. They
constructed a scarecrow from the bones of an ape and of a man, and
offer this, without the batting of an eye, as a scientific proof of the
antiquity of man. The great anthropologist of world-wide reputation,
Prof. Virchow, said: “In vain have Darwin’s adherents sought for
connecting links which should connect man with the monkey. _Not a
single one has been found_. This so-called pro-anthropus, which is
supposed to represent this connecting link, has not appeared. No true
scientist claims to have seen him.” Sir Ray Lancaster, writing to H. G.
Wells, concerning the Piltdown find, says, “We are stumped and
baffled.” Yet in spite of all this, nearly 1,000,000 persons annually
pass through the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and
view the “reconstruction” according to the artist’s fancy, of the
pithecanthropus, the Heidelberg man, the Piltdown man, and the
Neanderthal man, the “ancestors of the human race;” and the multitude
of high school students and teachers, as well as the general public,
are not told how dubious and unscientific the representation is.
The brain capacity of the Piltdown individual (man or ape) is set down
by his discoverers at 1070 c.c., which is 28 2/3% short of the normal
skull capacity, 1500 c.c. Therefore, he must have lived 17,200,000
years ago, if we accept the estimate of 60,000,000 years since life
began; or 143,333,333 years ago, if we accept the later guess of
500,000,000 years. It could not have lived near the time assigned. In
short, no guess of the origin of man that differs materially from the
time assigned in the word of God, can be harmonized with the facts.
4. The Neanderthal Man. The next slender prop is the Neanderthal man,
claimed to be 40,000 to 50,000 years old, although we are told that
that is very uncertain.
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