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.