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DEM BONES, DEM BONES
THE NEBRASKA MAN
Nebraska Man was discovered in 1922 by Harold Cook in the
Pliocene deposits in the Pliocene deposits of Nebraska. A tremendous
amount of literature was built around this supposed missing link which
allegedly lived 1 million years ago.
The evidence for Nebraska Man was used by evolutionists in the
famous Scopes evolution trial in Dayton Tennessee in 1925. William
Jennings Bryan was confronted with a battery of "great scientific
experts" who stunned him with the "facts" of Nebraska Man. Mr. Bryan
had no retort except to say that he thought the evidence was too
scanty and to plead for more time. Naturally, the "experts" scoffed
and made a mockery out of him. After all, who was he to question the
world's greatest scientific authorities?
But what exactly was the scientific proof for Nebraska Man? The
answer is a tooth. That's right; he found one tooth! The top
scientists of the word examined this tooth and appraised it as proof
positive of a prehistoric race in America. What a classic case of
excessive imagination! A pig made a monkey out of an evolutionist!
Years after the Scopes trial, the entire skeleton of the animal
from which the initial tooth came was found. As it turns out, the
tooth upon which Nebraska Man was constructed belonged to an extinct
species of pig. THE "AUTHORITIES," WHO RIDICULED MR. BRYAN FOR HIS
SUPPOSED IGNORANCE, CREATED AN ENTIRE RACE OF HUMANITY OUT OF THE
TOOTH OF A PIG!
What an embarrassment to the scientific community and
a noteworthy commentary on our human nature. Needless to say, little
publicity was given to the discovered error. Surely, there is a
lesson here for us concerning the reliability of so-called "expert
testimony," which is so often used to manipulate and intimidate the
layman.
A similar discovery, which was also based upon a tooth, was the
Southwest Colorado Man. It is now known that this particular tooth
actually belonged to a horse!
How resourceful and imaginative scientific "experts" can be at
times. Give them one tooth, not necessarily human, and they create an
entire race of prehistoric humanity.
JAVA APE-MAN
One of the most famous of all the anthropoids is the Java Ape-
Man, Pithecanthropus erectus (erect ape-man). He was discovered in
1891 by Dr. Eugene Dubois, a fervent evolutionist. Dr. Dubois' find
consisted of a small piece of the top of a skull, a fragment of a left
thigh-bone, and three molar teeth.
Although this evidence is
admitedly more substantial, it is still fragmentary. Furthermore,
these remnants were not found together. They were collected over a
range of about 70 feet. Also, they were not discovered at the same
time, but over the span of one year. To further complicate matters,
these remains were found in an old river bed mixed in with the bones
of extinct animals. Despite all of these difficulties, evolutionists
calmly assure us that Java Ape-Man lived about 750,000 years ago.
Although the "experts" would have us believe that these mere
fragments provide sufficient information from which to reconstruct an
entire prehistoric race, certain questions are raised. For instance,
how is it possible to reconstruct so completely with such confidence
from such scanty evidence?
How can the "experts" be so certain that
all the pieces came from the same animal? How have these unpetrified
bones managed to survive for so long without disintegrating. And so
on. Well, as it turns out, even the "experts" differed greatly about
the identification of these fossil fragments. In fact, of the twenty-
four European scientists who met to evaluate the find, then said they
came from an ape; seven from a man; and seven said they belonged to a
no longer missing link. Controversy and division surrounded the
discovery. The renowned Professor Virchow of Berlin said:
"There is no evidence at all that these bones were parts of the
same creature."
Even Dr. Dubois himself later reversed his own opinion. His
final conclusion was that the bones were the remains of some sort of
gobbin. But one would never gather the truly equivocal nature of the
world-famous Java Ape-Man by viewing museum exhibits or reading
college textbooks, which are so dogmatic. The dubious nature of Java
Ape-Man (and human evolution as well) is either conveniently ignored
or concealed behind the mask of "scientific fact."
One final note regarding Java Ape-Man. Another Pithecanthropus
was found in Java in 1926. Typically, this discovery was billed as a
prodigious breakthrough, the missing link for sure. It turned out to
be the kneebone of an extinct elephant.