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ALTERNATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY
• BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER
Any reasonably intelligent and open
minded person looking at the similarities
between the various species
of plants and animals alive on Earth
today will logically conclude that they are related,
and can be classified into families and
groups. Looking at the fossil record, seeing how
species arise and eventually become extinct to
be replaced by new species similar to the old, a
logical person will realize that some kind of evolution
is taking place. It is only on a much
closer inspection that little problems like irreducible
complexity and the truly immense
gaps in the fossil record become obvious,
leading many to the conclusion that only intelligent
design can explain it all…a Supreme
Being spending billions of years tinkering with
genetics for reasons beyond our understanding.
Theories of evolution had been proposed
by others before Darwin, notably by his grandfather
Erasmus Darwin, but it was up to
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace to suggest
that random variation (Darwin knew nothing
of genetics, mutations, or the complex internal
structure of living cells) drove the evolutionary
process. Darwin published his On the Origin of
Species in 1859, and, in 1871, The Descent of Man,
proposing that human beings were not exempt
from the evolutionary process and that humans
had evolved from some early species of ape.
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The similarities between humans and apes are
obvious, but so are some of the differences: we
are mostly hairless; we have large brains; we
have small canine teeth; and we walk completely
erect. Less obvious is the fact that we
have 46 chromosomes and all other primates,
including monkeys, apes, tarsiers, and lemurs,
have 48. Of course, Darwin had never heard of
chromosomes.
But the Darwinists realized that the gap in
the fossil record had to be filled. Neanderthal
Man, discovered way back in 1856 in Germany’s
Neanderthal Valley, seemed to be at
least a partial solution. Many remains, even
complete skeletons, were soon discovered all
over Europe and parts of Asia and the Near
East, dating back as far as 130,000 BP (before
the present). Remains of beings with at least
some Neanderthal characteristics date back to
350,000 and possibly as far as 600,000 BP Paleontologists,
eager to prove the Darwinist faith
in which they truly believed, eager to preserve
the knee-jerk atheism and materialism so vital
to the new religion of scientism, rushed to depict
Neanderthals as shambling and shaggy
brutes. But Neanderthals walked fully erect, had
brains on average slightly larger than ours, and
the hyoid bones in their throats made them capable
of speech. They had tools and fire. More
recently, more honest researchers have admitted
that they looked essentially like modern Homo
Sapiens. We must remember that no one is ar-
guing against micro-evolution within a species;
only against the Darwinist version of macroevolution.
There can be immense variation
within a species…consider domestic dogs, or
even the differences between the modern
human races. And it appears that Neanderthal
Man was probably nothing more than a now
extinct race of Homo Sapiens…as human as we
are.
Even in Darwin’s time it was realized that
something more primitive than Neanderthal
Man was needed, so large was the gap between
ape and man. Enter Piltdown Man. In 1912 a
fossil collector named Charles Dawson produced
some skull and jaw fragments, allegedly
found in a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown
in East Sussex, England. Dawson had a rather
unsavory reputation even before this, and, as
early as 1913, some honest researchers suspected
fraud. Piltdown Man was accepted as legitimate,
until, in 1953, careful study showed
the remains to be a partial modern human skull
and an orangutan jawbone. But, so eager were
paleontologists and physical anthropologists to
prove Darwinism, that they accepted the hoax
for 40 years. There is no reason to believe that
the current crop of researchers are doing any
better.
In addition to outright fraud, there are cases
of wishful thinking bordering on fraud.
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