Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site iham1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!iham1!rck From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 9) Message-ID: <340@iham1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 13:37:58 EST Article-I.D.: iham1.340 Posted: Mon Apr 22 13:37:58 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Apr-85 06:30:10 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 140 THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE I. (Life Sciences): THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION IS INVALID. A. EVOLUTION HAS NEVER BEEN OBSERVED. (See 1-13.) B. ALL ARGUMENTS FOR EVOLUTION ARE OUTDATED, ILLOGICAL, OR WISHFUL THINKING. ... 18. Stories claiming that primitive, ape-like men have been found are overstated [a-c]. It is now universally acknowledged that Piltdown man was a hoax [d]. The fragmentary evidence that constituted Nebraska man was a pig's tooth. Prior to 1978, the known remains of Ramapithecus consisted merely of a handful of teeth and jaw fragments. It is now known that these fragments were pieced together incorrectly by Louis Leakey [e] so as to resemble portions of the human jaw [f]. Ramapithecus was just an ape [g]. The discoverer of Java man later acknowledged that Java man was similar to a large gibbon [h,i] and that he had withheld evidence to that effect [j-m]. Peking man is considered by many experts to be the remains of apes that were systematically decapitated and exploited for food by true man [n,o]. Furthermore, Skull 1470, discovered by Richard Leakey, is more human-like and yet older than Java man, Peking man, and the Australopithecines [p,q]. Detailed computer studies of the Australopithecines have conclusively shown that they are not intermediate between man and apes [r]. The Australopithecines, which were made famous by Louis and Mary Leakey, are actually quite distinct from both man and apes. Lucy, a type of Australopithecine, was initially believed to have walked upright in a human manner. Recent studies of Lucy's entire anatomy, not just her knee joints, now show that this is highly improbable [s] and that she probably swung from the trees [t,u]. For about 100 years the world was led to believe that Neanderthal man was stooped and ape-like. Recent studies show that this was based upon some Neanderthal men who were crippled with arthritis and rickets [v-x]. Neanderthal man, Heidelberg man, and Cro-Magnon man were completely human. Artists' depictions, especially of the fleshy portions of their bodies, are quite imaginative and are not supported by the evidence [y]. Furthermore, the dating techniques are questionable. a) M. Bowden, APE-MEN: FACT OR FALLACY?, 2nd edition (Great Britain: Sovereign Publications, 1981). b) Duane T. Gish, ''Multivariate Analysis: Man...Apes.. Creation Life Publishers, 1976), pp. 298-305. c) Duane T. Gish, ''Richard Leakey's Skull,'' BATTLE FOR CREATION (San Diego: Creation Life Publishers, 1976), pp. 193-200. d) Stephen J. Gould, ''The Piltdown Conspiracy,'' NATURAL HISTORY, Vol.89, No.8, August 1980, pp. 8-28. e) Allen L. Hammond, ''Tales of an Elusive Ancestor,'' SCIENCE 83, November 1983, p. 43. f) Adrienne L. Zihlman and J. Lowenstein, ''False Start of the Human Parade,'' NATURAL HISTORY, Aug./Sept. 1979, pp. 86-91. g) Hammond, p. 43. h) ''Pithecanthropus [Java man] was not a man, but a gigantic genus allied to the Gibbons,.... ''...[it had] a close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes. ''...This comparison more than confirms the opinion of Marcellin Boule, pronounced fifteen years ago, that Pithecanthropus may have been a large gibbonoid species,....'' [Eugene Dubois, ''On the Fossil Human Skulls Recently Discovered in Java and Pithecanthropus Erectus,'' MAN, January 1937, pp. 1-7.] i) C. L. Brace and Ashley Montagu, HUMAN EVOLUTION, 2nd edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977), p. 204. j) Bowden, pp. 138-142, 144-148. k) Francis Hitching, THE NECK OF THE GIRAFFE: WHERE DARWIN WENT WRONG (New Haven, Connecticut: Ticknor and Fields, 1982), pp. 208-209. l) ''The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity.... A striking example, which has only recently come to light, is the alteration of the Piltdown skull so that it could be used as evidence for the descent of man from the apes; but even before this a similar instance of tinkering with evidence was finally revealed by the discoverer of Pithecanthropus [Java man], who admitted, many years after his sensational report, that he had found in the same deposits bones that are definitely human.'' [W. R. Thompson, ''Introduction to the ORIGIN OF SPECIES,'' by Charles Darwin; Everyman No. 811 Library (New York: E.P. Dutton & Sons, 1956 reprint of 1928 edition), p. 17.] m) Patrick O'Connell, SCIENCE OF TODAY AND THE PROBLEMS OF GENESIS, 2nd edition, 1969, pp. 139-142. n) O'Connell, pp. 108-138. o) Bowden, pp. 90-137. p) ''Either we toss out this skull or we toss out our theories of early man.'' [Richard E. Leakey, ''Skull 1470--New Clue to Earliest Man?'', NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, June 1973, p. 819.] q) William R. Fix, THE BONE PEDDLERS: SELLING EVOLUTION (New York: Macmillan, 1984), pp. 50-61. r) Charles E. Oxnard, ''The Place of the Australopithecines in Human Evolution: Grounds for Doubt?'', NATURE, Vol.258, 4 December 1975, pp. 389- 395. s) William L. Jungers, ''Lucy's Limbs: Skeletal Allometry and Locomotion in Australopithecus Afarensis,'' NATURE, 24 June 1982, pp. 676-678. t) Jeremy Cherfas, ''Trees Have Made Man Upright,'' NEW SCIENTIST, 20 January 1983, pp. 172-178. u) Jack T. Stern, Jr. and Randall L. Susman, ''The Locomotor Anatomy of Australopithecus Afarensis,'' AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol.60, March 1983, pp. 279-317. v) Bowden, pp. 171-173. w) Francis Ivanhoe, ''Was Virchow Right About Neanderthal?'', NATURE, Vol.227, 8 August 1970, pp. 577-578. x) William L. Straus, Jr., and A. J. E. Cave, ''Pathology and the Posture of Neanderthal Man,'' THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY, December, 1957, pp. 348-363. y) Boyce Rensberger, ''Facing the Past,'' SCIENCE 81, October 1981, p. 49. ... II. (Astronomical Sciences): TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown