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Harun Yahya

- A fossil discovered in 1891 and given the name Java Man, and the fossil known as Peking Man dis-
covered in 1923 were both shown to be false transitional forms in 1939.
- A single fossil tooth, claimed to represent the most significant evidence of a transitional form in
1922 and given the name of Nebraska Man, was realized to belong to a wild pig in 1927.

- A fossil discovered in 1959 and named Zinjanthropus was subsequently realized to belong to an or-
dinary ape and was removed from the scientific literature in 1970.
- Ramapithecus, discovered in the 1930s and exhibited as a transitional form for the next 50 year, was
eliminated when it was shown to be an ordinary baboon in 1981.

- Lucy, discovered in 1974 in Africa was invalidated by research in 1999-2000, and the fossil was also re-
moved from the scientific literature.
- The skull named the Taung Child discovered in 1924 was invalidated in 1954 when it was shown
to belong to a young gorilla.

- It was established that the Turkana Boy fossil discovered in 1984 and attempted to be portrayed as
a Homo Erectus, was in fact about 12 years old, and would have stood 1.83 meters tall when he became
an adult. The erect structure of the skeleton is in no way different from humans today. It was under-
stood that all the speculation about the fossil was false.

In a statement issued in Nature magazine, the evolutionist L.B. Halstead from the University of
Reading Geology Department admitted that all the fossils depicted to date as evidence for so-called evo-
lution, in fact constituted no evidence for human evolution, and that Darwinists actually had no cor-
roborative finds in the area at all:

This presents the public for the first time with the notion that there are no actual fossils directly ancestral to

man. [This is] What the creationists have insisted on for years ... 36

The biologist Lyall Watson also says that Darwinists have not unearthed a single fossil that might
prove the supposed evolution of man:

Modern apes, for instance, seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record.
And the true origin of modern humans--of upright, naked, toolmaking, big-brained beings--is, if we are to
be honest with ourselves, an equally mysterious matter. 37

No matter how reluctant Lyall Watson may be to openly state the case, referring to the origin of man
as “a mysterious matter,” the origins of man are actually abundantly clear: Allah created man like all

other living things, and concrete scientific findings confirm this. In addition to all this, Darwinists are
always confronted by the dating problem with every new fossil that is unearthed. They constantly have
to “set back” the dates they have dreamed up for evolution and to alter their claims as they see how fos-
sils refute evolution. For example, the fact that 200-million-year-old human footprints were found in one

stratum alongside human bones in strata dating back to the Cretaceous Period (144 to 65 million years)
shows that human beings go back at least 100 million years. 38 Given that evolutionists assume a period of
50,000 years since human beings first appeared, we are most definitely looking at a major discrepancy.
New fossils reported in August 2007 showed that the life forms called Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis by

Darwinists in fact lived at the same time. The dating problem is yet another factor that leaves Darwinists
in a hopeless dilemma when it comes to the so-called evolution of man.
Yet despite all these facts, Darwinists still continue to portray the false fossils in question as evidence
and to convert them, in their own eyes, into part of the myth of human evolution. They still deceive peo-

ple and continue to use these fossils, the invalidity of which has been scientifically proven, in scientific
references and school text books. The writer Hank Hanegraaff comments on this deceptive technique:

Speculation about Pithecanthropus Erectus, the ape man that walked erect, is far and away the most famous
'ape-man' fiction still being circulated as fact. While over time he has evolved into a new classification called

Homo Erectus, millions regard him as a friendly ancestor, not just a fossil, and simply refer to him by the
nickname Java Man.

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