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g. Homo erectus |
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This specimen … |
False - there are many
specimens of Homo erectus... |
FALSE |
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is undoubtedly the
weakest link in the human evolution scenario. |
...and they provide good
evidence for human evolution. |
FALSE |
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Shortly after Darwin
published his Origin of the Species, a Dutch physician named Eugene
Dubois, who burned with the desire to find the missing link,went in
search of Pithecanthropus in Sumatra. Dubois had been a student
of Ernst Haeckel, famous for his "biogenetic Law" that stated
a human embryo went through a sequential evolutionary stage of its
ancestors. It is now well known through medical science that this is far
from true. |
True |
TRUE |
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What else is well known
is that Haeckel falsified most of his data. |
Dubious - he idealised
some of his data, and made false assumptions based on a particular
theory of ontogenetic development. To state that he falsified most
of his data is simply untrue. It should also be noted that Haeckel's
'biogenetic law' has not been a part of mainstream evolutionary theory
for a long time. |
Dubious |
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- Haeckel's Embryos |
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Having failed to get
financial assistance from the Dutch government, Dubois enlisted in the
French Foreign Legion to gain his goal. While in Sumatra, he heard about
a skull found on the nearby island of Java. He was able to secure the
skull and even found another like it at the same location. However,
these skulls were too human looking to be of any use to someone looking
for an ape-man. In 1891, he found a molar tooth along the Solo river.
Later the same year, he found another molar and an ape-like skull cap.
The following year he found a human femur 46 feet from where he found
the skull cap. Although at first he thought it was a chimpanzee skull,
after consulting with Haeckel, he declared the whole collection to
belong to one and the same creature, stating it was "admirably
suited to the role of missing link". |
True but irrelevant |
irrelevant |
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This missing link
arrived just in time to salvage Darwin's theory as it was under fire
because of the total lack of transitional forms found or not found as
the case was. |
False - Darwin's theory was
not in need of "salvaging". |
FALSE |
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By joining an ape skull
with a human femur he had truly created an ape-man. He originally
claimed that the strata he was working in was pliocene but after
discovering his ape-man, he decided it was really tertiary. We now know
both to be false. |
Possibly true, but
irrelevant: Nobody is denying that scientists can make mistakes and
falsify data. It science, however that uncovers the falsified data |
irrelevant |
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When taking his specimen
on tour, he could not find a single legitimate scientist to chair any of
his meetings. Nonetheless, newspapers and magazines embraced him
wholeheartedly, even drawing many pictures of complete ape-men. As
Dubois came under increasing attack, he became very secretive about his
fossil finds - to the point of hiding them under his dining room floor
and refusing to let them be examined. A few years before his death in
1940, Dubois finally admitted the skulls were in his opinion those of a
large Gibbon. Evolutionists however refused to accept this and to this
day it is still being taught as a transitional, though all modern
scientists have debunked it. |
So what? He was wrong! |
irrelevant |
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The other fossil in the
Homo erectus taxon is Peking man. |
False - it is not the only
other fossil in the taxon. Many other specimens of Homo erectus
have been found in other parts of the world. To quote:
Except for modern Homo sapiens, erectus was the most
far-ranging hominid to have existed. Material that has been attributed
to erectus has come from South Africa, Indonesia, England, and just about
everywhere in between, covering the entire continents of Africa, Asia,
and Europe. |
FALSE |
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- Homo Erectus |
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An almost complete skull
cap was discovered in 1929 in an infilled limestone cave near Peking,
China (now Bejing). This ape-like skull cap was similar to Java man. The
cave continued to be investigated until the beginning of World War II.
Fragments of 14 skulls, 12 lower jaws and 147 teeth were found. Also,
several skeletons of modern man were found slightly higher. Once again,
bone fragments were assembled from various places to form a skull. For
example, the jaw bone came from a level 85 feet higher than the skull
and face bones. After hiring a sculptor to model a woman's face from the
made-up skull, the result was named "Nellie". Nellie has
appeared in almost all textbooks. |
So what? I don’t see any
argument. |
irrelevant |
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As usual, at the site
where "she" was found was found also numerous stone tools and
evidence of butchery and fires. Recently, Chinese scientists have found
over a 1,000 stone tools, the skulls of over 100 modern day animals, as
well as 6 modern human skulls. The skulls and all fragments showed
evidence of being shattered or broken in. In addition, a layer of ashes
nearly 4 feet thick was found. The Chinese assume Homo erectus made
these tools, despite the fact that the brain capacity of the
put-together skulls is only that of a small chimp. They completely
discredit the whole and complete modern human skulls they found. |
So what? I don’t see any
argument. |
irrelevant |
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h. Neanderthal man |
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Considered last, yet the
first ape-man found in Darwin's day. |
Neanderthal man is not an 'ape-man'
(a term with no meaning in anthropology). |
FALSE |
| 68 |
Of the cases stated
above, all tried to make men out of apes. |
A disingenuous blurring of the
taxonomic relationships between men and other apes. By the some recent taxonomic
analyses (based on genetic material as well as morphology), homo sapiens
is classed as 'The Third Chimpanzee". It seems that we are more closely
related to chimps than chimps are to gorillas and other apes. It has been
seriously suggested that chimps should be included in the genus Homo. |
misleading |
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The Third Chimpanzee :
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Jared M. Diamond.
(Perennial; Reprint edition (February 1993) ISBN: 0060984031 ) |
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Link
- Chimps Belong on Human Branch of Family Tree |
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Now we will see how they
make apes out of men. |
Meaningless rhetoric |
irrelevant |
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In 1856, in the Neander
Valley of Germany, a school-teacher discovered a skull cap, 2 femurs, 2
humeri and other fragments. A careful examination and description by
Professor Schaafhausen reported them to be human and normal. Two years
later, 2 similar skulls were found in Belgium. Subsequently over 60
parts of skeletons were found in 11 different countries. (Indeed, they
are still being found-but more on that later) |
A reasonable account |
TRUE |
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In 1908, Professor Boule
of The Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris declared Neanderthal an
ape-man because of his low eye brow ridges and the stooped over posture
of some of the specimens. This was to shape opinion and teaching for
most of the 20th century. However, in 1950, things began to change. An
embarrassing fact came out. Neanderthal man's brain capacity was larger
than modern man's!!! By over 200 cc's!!! |
So what? Why was this embarrassing?
Which scientists were embarrassed? |
irrelevant |
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One wonders if this fact
would have been hidden if it had been 200 cc's less??? Modern tests,
including electron microscope scanning have proved that Neanderthal man,
at least the stooped over ones, suffered from acute osteo-arthritis.
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It wouldn't have been.
Why should it have been? |
misleading |
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Now lets talk about
modern excavations. So many Neanderthal skeletons have been found now
that all evolutionists cringe from the name. |
How can that statement be
true if so much work is being carried out on the remains? |
FALSE |
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Not only skeletons
either. Stone tools and iron tools have been found in quantity. |
I'm not aware of any iron
tools being found with Neanderthal man. Plenty of stone tools, though.
If anyone can offer any real evidence for this, I'd be very interested. |
FALSE |
| 75 |
Not only that but the
iron in the "London Artifact", which was found in the same age
layer of rocks, shows a pureness that we can't duplicate today. Also, it
was forged using chlorine in the process somehow as 2% of the iron
content is chlorine. Chlorine wasn't "invented" by modern man
until well into the 1900's!! |
A very dubious claim,
unsupported by any scientific evidence. |
Dubious |
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Evolutionists have
finally come up with a ready answer for their problems with Neanderthal
man. They have decided he was an evolutionary dead-end. |
Not quite true, but even
if true, so what? |
irrelevant |
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On what basis ? The fact
that his brain cavity was 200 cc's larger than modern man's! |
The brain capacity is
irrelevant to the arguments over taxonomic relationships. It should be
noted that although the brain was larger, the folding of the cortex was
less complex than in homo sapiens sapiens. |
FALSE |
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Evolutionists couldn't
have Neanderthal be a true man. After all, he had a larger brain size.
That would mean evolution didn't work. |
Evolution has no problem
at all with a reduction in brain size. |
FALSE |
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If everything is a
constant upward progression, Neanderthal just wouldn't do. Hence....
evolutionary dead-end. How weak! |
This shows a complete
lack of understanding or deliberate misrepresentation of evolutionary
theory. Evolution is not 'a constant upward progression'. |
FALSE |
| 80 |
In conclusion, it seems
there is no end to the speculation over the bestial ancestry of man and
it would appear that all scientific caution has been thrown to the wind. |
Complete and utter
nonsense and empty rhetoric. |
FALSE |
| 81 |
However, with today's
scientific advantages and advances we will see evolution falling farther
by the wayside scientifically and advanced as fact philosophically to
our children. |
Complete and utter
nonsense and empty rhetoric. |
FALSE |
| 82 |
There is more than ample
evidence for mans sudden and abrupt appearance-creation if you will-and
absolutely none for a long gradient process or evolution. |
Complete and utter
nonsense and empty rhetoric. |
FALSE |
| 83 |
It takes more faith to
believe in evolution than it does creation. |
Complete and utter
nonsense and empty rhetoric. |
FALSE |
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One is easily proven and
apparent while the other is frauds and tricks. |
True - evolution is
easily proven, and creationism is frauds and tricks |
TRUE |
