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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 ApeMan, 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 twentyfour 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.