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Ape-men:
Title 2
The Grand Illusion

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 Evolution
Evolution of manof Man?
progression?
 TIME
14 cover, 14 March 1994
March
1994

How Man
Began
Fossil bones from
the dawn of
humanity are
rewriting the
story of evolution
 23 July
TIME cover, 23 July 2001
2001
HOW APES
BECAME
HUMAN
What a new
discovery tells
scientists about
how our oldest
ancestors stood
on two legs and
made an
evolutionary leap
National Geographic cover,
August
August 2002
2002

THE FIRST
PIONEER?
A new find
shakes the
human family
tree
 August
Scientific American cover,
2003 August 2003
• The Face of Our
Earliest Ancestor
• Why We Walk on
Two Legs
• Where Did People
Come From?
• Other Hominids Once
Shared Our World
• The Reasons for
Skin Colors
• If Our Bodies Were
Built to Last
Natural History Feb
2007

February
2007

New Faces of the Human Past

 Evolution Tree of Life
Present

Beginning

Creation Forest of Life

Present

Flood

Creation
Evolution tree Creation forest
Evolution tree & creation forest
DATA

Which
view
fits
the
facts?
Evolution Creation
Tree Forest
 Australophithecus

Australopithecus
Australopithecines—Kenya map
“Lucy,” Ethiopia (1974)
Lucy, partial and full
Notice!
 The hands and
feet
 The upright
posture
 The face

Truth
Knuckle-walker,
similar to a pygmy
chimp or gorilla
 BBC, 2006

Chicago FM
St. Louis Zoo London NHM
 Purple
In 1981: “We canblank
now say that the
australopithecines
definitely walked
upright.”

Richard Leakey (Director, Kenya National

Museums), The Making of Mankind (New
York: E. P. Dutton, 1981), p. 71
 Purple
But in 1982 … blank
“And Leakey points out that
paleontologists do not know
whether Australopithecus
walked upright. 'Nobody has
yet found an associated
skeleton with a skull,' he says.”

Anonymous, “Leakey Changes His Mind About Man's Age,”

New Scientist 93 (March 1982), 695.
 Purple
“'I am staggered blankthat as
to believe
little as a year ago I made the
statements that I made.' So said
Richard Leakey, before the elegant
audience of a Royal Institution
evening discourse last Friday. He had
come to reveal that the conventional
wisdom, which he had so recently
espoused in his BBC television series
The Making of Mankind, was 'probably
wrong in a number of crucial areas'.”
Anonymous, “Leakey Changes His Mind About Man's Age,”
New Scientist 93 (March 1982), 695.
 Purple
“In particular, he nowblank
sees man's
oldest ancestor as being considerably
younger than the 15-20 million years
he plumped for on television. Leakey
says that the basis on which
paleontologists classify fossil apes
and humans is misleading, and he
would like to see an entirely fresh
episode of classifying.”
1982
Anonymous, “Leakey Changes His Mind About Man's Age,”
New Scientist 93 (March 1982), 695.
Lucy's “human” foot

Living World exhibit, St. Louis Zoo

 Curvature of A. afarensis toes
Australopithecines
Humans

1983
J. Stern & R. Sussman, 1983, Am. J. Phys.
Anthropology 60:279-212
Lucy's “human” foot

Living World exhibit, St. Louis Zoo

“'The time has come to
Purple blank admit that the
system by which we name things is
inadequate for dealing with things that
have a time dimension.' … Leakey
believes that the present confused
nomenclature for the various fossils is
driving people 'round in circles.' He is
convinced that 'if one were to start
afresh and give all those fossils new
names, one would come up with a
totally different scene from the one
we're looking at now.'”
Anonymous, “Leakey changes his mind about man's age,”
New Scientist, Vol. 93 (March 1982), 695.
 1986 article Purple blank begins:
on Australopithecines

“An extraordinary 2.5 million-year-old

skull found in Kenya has overturned
all previous notions of the course of
early hominid evolution. We no
longer know who gave rise to whom
-- perhaps not even how, or when, we
came into being.”

Pat Shipman (paleontologist, Johns Hopkins School

of Medicine), "Baffling limb on the family tree,"
Discover (Sept. 1986), cover & p. 89.
Theory of Human Evolution 1979-1986
(after Johanson & White)

Modern
Humans

Archaic Homo ? Neanderthals extinction

sapiens

1 m.y.a. Australopithecus
boisei

Homo erectus

Australopithecus
Homo habilis robustus

2 m.y.a.

Australopithecus
africanus (includes Taung)

3 m.y.a.

Australopithecus
afarensis (includes Lucy)

4 m.y.a.
?

?
The article ends:
“The bottom Shipman
line of all 1986
this is that a
great deal of work needs to be done. It's
a new era in paleoanthropology. The
things we thought we understood
reasonably well, we don't. ... No better
argument can be made to support the
time, trouble and cost of field work than
this new skull. Like an earthquake, the
new skull has reduced our nicely
organized constructs to a rubble of
awkward, sharp-edged new hypotheses.
It's a sure sign of scientific progress.”
Shipman (1986), p. 93.
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Neanderthal
Man
 Purple
Scopes blank Trial
Evolution
Dayton, Tennessee, 1925
“There can be no question that
Neanderthal man was much more
primitive, more simian in
organization, than modern man.”
Prof. Horatio H. Newman
zoologist, University of Chicago

The World's Most Famous Court Trial, 278.

 1983

1856
 Changing Time,
CNN,
Faces of March
2006
Neanderthal 1994
Newsweek,
Mar. 2007

ScienceDaily.com
August 2008
Neanderthal Museum, Erkrath, Germany.

Neanderthals—German display

“From his bestial 19th-century persona to just another guy in

a suit, Neanderthals have been pigeonholed according to
the times.”
Does she look sub-human?
“Reconstruction
of a Neanderthal
child's face
(Image:
Anthropological
Institute,
University of
Zürich)”

Ewen Callaway, “Neanderthals speak out after 30,000

years,” www.newscientist.com, 15 April 2008.
Neanderthal
Museum
2010
George Washington & Indian
Aborigines - Photo
Dead Sea Scroll cave

Essene caves
where the
Dead Sea
Scrolls were
found in 1947.
 Heb. 11:3811:38
Hebrews NAS
… men of whom the world was
not worthy, wandering in
deserts and mountains and
caves and holes in the ground.

Sarah, Jacob, Lazarus: Buried in a cave

Lot, Elijah, David: Lived in a cave
 Osama bin Laden

Osama
bin
Laden
 Archaeological evidence that
Neanderthals were 100% human
 Made sophisticated spears, needles & stone
tools
 Used make-up and seashell jewelry
 Hunted dolphins and seals
 Had controlled use of fire & cooked food
 Built huts from animal skins
 Made flutes out of bear femurs
 Cared for their sick & ceremonially buried
their dead
 Possessed the hyoid bone (in the voice-box)
“almost identical” to modern humans and
had the speech-enabling gene FOXP2
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More problematic
“missing links”
 Purple
Piltdown blank
Man, 1912
The evidence:
 a piece of jaw
 two molar teeth
 a piece of skull
The confident interpretation:
“A discovery of supreme importance … was
announced at the Geological Society on … 18
Dec. [1912] … a part … of the most ancient
[500,000 years] inhabitant of England, if not of
Europe … the remains thus far recovered leave
no possible doubt but that they represent, … a
man who must be regarded as affording us a
link with our remote ancestors, the apes.”
Illustrated London News, 28 Dec. 1912
 Purple
Scopes blank Trial
Evolution
Dayton, Tennessee, 1925
“The most ancient English
human relic has been called the
dawn man of Piltdown.”
Prof. Horatio H. Newman
zoologist, University of Chicago

The World's Most Famous Court Trial, p. 278.

 1953: Hoax exposed
* Teeth & jaw bone — Orangutan
dead for 50 years

* Skull bone — Human, C-14 dated

at 520-720 years old

* Teeth had been filed down &

bones were artificially colored
 Piltdown
1990s: Man #3
Probable
Perpetrators
* Charles Dawson, discoverer

* Teilhard de Chardin, French

Jesuit priest & paleontologist

* Some of the highest scientific

experts in British science & at
the British Museum
 Nebraska Man
1922: Confident interpretation – ape-man
The evidence – a single tooth

1927: re-interp. – extinct species of pig

 Boxgrove Man
(Homo heidelbergensis)
Evidence (1994-95):
one shin bone—clearly human
two teeth—clearly human, but
not found close enough to be
necessarily from the same
individual
Primitive stone tools—clearly
human artifacts
Identity?
100% man, post-Babel “300,000-400,000 yrs”
 Summary of Defunct Ape-men
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis — human
Ramapithecus — extinct type of orangutan
Eanthropus (Piltdown Man) — hoax
Hesperopithecus (Nebraska Man) — pig
Australopithecus africanus — some kind of ape
Australopithecus afarensis — like a chimpanzee
Homo habilis — junk category, never existed?
Homo erectus — some evolutionists: fully human
Pithecanthropus (Java Man , f. 1890s)
Sinanthropus (Peking Man, f. 1920-1930s)

There is NO clear evidence that man evolved!

 Purple blank
“It's hard to find someone
who can draw a realistic-
looking early hominid.
That's why the
Geographic's
art department conducted
a search for new talent.
Four artists were picked
to receive casts of two-
million-year-old female
Homo habilis fossils [right].
From these bits of evidence they were to
sketch—in skeletal and fleshed-out form—the
hominid to whom the bones belonged.”
“Behind the Scenes,” National Geographic (March 2000)
“'Each artist had two
weeks with the bones
before they were sent on
to the next persons,' says
coordinator Kris Hannah.
'Research was completely
up to the individual.
That's why their work
looks so different.
There's no one way to
draw her.'
Paleoanthropologists reviewed the results.
Intrigued with all four entries, the art
department has invited the artists to paint
finished versions based on input from the
consultants.”
National Geographic—Behind
the scences #1—four women
Purple blank 2001
“Until a few years ago,
the evolutionary history
of our species was
thought to be reasonably
straight-forward. … But
lately, confusion has
been sown in the human
evolutionary tree. … The
confusion now looks set
to increase still further.”

Daniel E. Lieberman, “Another

Face in our Family Tree,” Nature,
vol. 410 (22 March 2001), p. 420.
“Lucy's Baby, a
Stunning New Ape
Human
Fossil”
• Shoulder blades & neck
vertebra—like a gorilla
• Inner ear canals—like
African apes
• Long curved finger—like
tree-dwelling ape
• Voice box—like a
chimpanzee's
• cranial capacity—like a
chimpanzee
www.sciam.com, 20 Sept. 2006
Ape-man
Deception

www.sciam.com, 20 Sept. 2006

 How to make an ape-man

1. A few human bones + imagination

= ape-man
2. A few ape (?) bones + imagination
= ape-man
3. A few ape bones + a few human
bones + imagination = ape-man
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What does the

Bible say?
Man was created
supernaturally
and is
unique
from all other
creatures.
 Stott
“It seems1981—pre-Adamites
perfectly possible to 1
reconcile the historicity of Adam with
at least some (theistic) evolutionary
theory. Many biblical Christians in
fact do so, believing them to be not
entirely incompatible.
To assert the historicity of an original
pair who sinned through
disobedience is one thing;”

John Stott, quoted in Colin Chapman, The Case for

Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981), p. 130.
 Stott
“it 1981—pre-Adamites
is quite another to 1
deny all evolution and
assert the separate
and special creation
of everything,
including both
subhuman creatures
and Adam's body.”

John Stott, quoted in Colin Chapman, The Case for

Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981), p. 130.
 Stottsuggestion
“The 1981—pre-Adamites
(for it is no more 2
than this) does not seem to me to be
against Scripture and therefore
impossible that when God made
man in His own image, what He did
was to stamp His own likeness on
one of the many 'hominids' which
appear to have been living at the
time.”

Stott (1981), p. 130.

 Stott 1981—pre-Adamites 2
“Speaking hesitatingly as a non-
scientist,” Stott goes on to indicate
that he leans toward the idea of pre-
Adamite hominids who were
anatomically indistinguishable from
modern man but who did not bear
the image of God.

Stott (1981), p. 130.

Man was created
supernaturally
and is
unique
from all other
creatures.
 Gen. 1:27 NAS no
Genesis 1:27
ha'adam
God created man in His own
image, in the image of God He
created him; male and female He
created them.
 11Corinthians 15:39
Cor 15:39 NAS
All flesh is not the same flesh,
but there is one flesh of men,
and another flesh of beasts, and
another flesh of birds, and
another of fish.
 Gen. 2:7 NAS
Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man
from the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a
living being (ESV: creature).
 GenesisThe
2:7 diagrams
Bible NAS
man + Divine breath = living creature
nephesh chayyah
(also Gen. 1:20-21, 24; 9:10)

1 Corinthians 15:45a
“the first man, Adam, became a living soul”

Theistic Evolution
living creature + Divine breath = man
nephesh chayyah
 Gen. 3:19 NAS
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you
will eat bread, till you return to
the ground, because from it you
were taken; for you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.
 Gen. 2:22 NAS
Genesis 2:22

The LORD God fashioned into a

woman the rib which He had
taken from the man, and brought
her to the man.
Baby Pictures of Adam & Eve
 Gen 3:20 & 1 Cor
Genesis 3:20
15:45 NAS
Now the man called his wife's name
Eve, because she was the mother of
all the living.

1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, "The first man,
Adam, became a living soul. …
 Gen. 4 4
Genesis
Cain built a city.
Six generations later –
* Some people were tent-
dwelling herdsmen.
* Others were gifted
musicians, miners and
metal-workers.
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Races--Australoid to Caucasoid
AUSTRALOID

NEGROID

MONGOLOID
Imaginary
EVOLUTIONARY
ANCESTORS
CAUCASOID

RACES
“At some future period,
not very distant as
measured by centuries,
the civilized races of
man will almost
certainly exterminate
and replace the savage
races throughout the
world. At the same time
the anthropomorphous apes … will no
doubt be exterminated.”

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: A.L.

Burt, 1874, 2nd ed.), 178.
“The break between
man and his nearest
allies will then be wider,
for it will intervene
between man in a more
civilized state, as we
may hope, even than
the Caucasian, and
some ape as low as a
baboon, instead of as now between the
negro or Australian [aborigine] and the
gorilla.”
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: A.L.
Burt, 1874, 2nd ed.), 178.
“BiologicalPurple blank
arguments for racism
may have been
common before 1850,
but they increased by
orders of magnitude
following the
acceptance of
evolutionary theory.”

Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny

(Belknap-Harvard Press, 1977), 127-128.

QC 674
 National Geographic 1985

Time-Life Books, 1971

Discovery Channel web site, 11 Dec. 2007
 Acts
Acts17:24-26
17:24,NAS
26
24. The God who made the world
and all things in it, …
26. He made from one man every
nation of mankind ...
 One “Race”
One Race 02279
Adam & Eve
1 Corinthians 15:45
Genesis 3:20

Sons & Daughters

Genesis 5:4

Noah & Sons

Genesis 9:17-19

People at Tower of Babel

Genesis 11:8-9
Acts 17:26

Different People
Groups/Cultures
Skin Tones Line-up 03051
MALE FEMALE
AaBbCc x AaBbCc
Possible information in egg/sperm cells:

A a B b C c
Possible information in offspring:
HUMAN SKIN COLOR

AA BB CC DARK 100%

aa bb cc LIGHT 100%
AA Bb CC DARK 85%
Aa BB Cc DARK 70%

Aa Bb Cc MULATO 50%
 ADAM & EVE
HAD LOTS OF
GENETIC VARIETY

aabb
ADAM & EVE

aaBb

AaBb AaBb
AABb
AND COULD ACHIEVE
A WIDE RANGE OF
SKIN TONES IN
ONE GENERATION! AABB
Eye Shape
Eye Shape Variations
VARIATIONS
NEWSMAKERS
Multi-color twins close-up
 Human Variation
Human variation since Noah

Caucasian Negroid Mongoloid

Cro Magnon

Noah's Family:
8 people
Homo erectus

Neanderthal Adam + Eve

Map—post-flood dispersion
DATA

Evolution Creation
Tree Forest
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So what?
 Purple blank

London Zoo spokeswoman Polly Wills

says, “Seeing people in a different
environment, among other animals ...
teaches members of the public that the
human is just another primate.”
 Adam in Your Past 01127

ADAM IN YOUR
PAST
Ape in Your Past 01128
RELATIVE
IN YOUR MORALITY
PAST MAN SETS
THE RULES

OOH
OOH
AAAH!
American Atheists—no Adam,
“No Adam and Eve means no need
noItredeemer
for a savior. also means that the
Bible cannot be trusted as a source
of unambiguous, literal truth. It is
completely unreliable, because it all
begins with a myth, and builds on
that as a basis. No Fall of Man
means no need for atonement and
no need for a redeemer.”

American Atheists, “You KNOW it's a Myth: This

Season, Celebrate REASON!” https://atheists.org, no
date, accessed 1 June 2011.
 CORRUPTION

CATASTROPHE
CREATION
CONFUSION
THE SEVEN C’s
OF HISTORY
CONSUMMATION
CHRIST
CROSS
 200-Year Slippery Slide
 Young-earth creation & global Flood
 Earth is old, global but limited Flood,
man is recent
 Earth is old, local Flood, man is recent
 Earth is old, animals evolved, man is
ancient but created
 Earth is old, animals & man evolved
 Gen. 1–11 is myth—no literal Adam/Fall
Dr. John Stott
 Men evolved
from apes. Take I created Adam and
my word for it! Eve supernaturally.
Take My Word for it!

HOLY
BIBLE
AiG web site #1
Wood 2002—human evolution
“There is a popular image of human
evolution thatis illusion
you'll find all over the
place … On the left of the picture
there's an ape … On the right, a man
… Between the two is a succession of
figures that become ever more like
humans … Our progress from ape to
human looks so smooth, so tidy. It's
such a beguiling image that even the
experts are loath to let it go. But it is
an illusion.”
Bernard Wood (prof. of human origins, George
Washington Univ.), “Who Are We?” New Scientist 2366
(26 Oct. 2002), 44.
 Evolution
Evolution of Man?
of man—progression:
Illusion!

DECEPTION
ILLUSION
 Acts
Acts 17:30-31
17:30-31 NAS
30. Therefore having overlooked the
times of ignorance, God is now
declaring to men that all people
everywhere should repent,
31. because He has fixed a day in
which He will judge the world in
righteousness through a Man whom
He has appointed, having furnished
proof to all men by raising Him from
the dead.
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