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Harun Yahya

It is generally known that Java Man was initially discovered by a Dutchman named Eugene Dubois on the
Dutch East Indian island of Java in 1891. What is not so well known is the fact that Java Man consists of noth-
ing more than a skullcap, a femur, three teeth, and a great deal of imagination. Even more disturbing is the
fact that the femur was found 50 feet (15 meters) from the skullcap and a full year later… This trek, com-

monly referred to as the Selenka Expedition, included nineteen evolutionists bent on demonstrating that the
evolutionary conjectures about Java man were true. However, their 342 page scientific report, which, ac-
cording to [Sir Arthur] Keith [a famous evolutionist] 'commands our unstinted praise,' demonstrates beyond
the peradventure of a doubt that Java Man played no part in human evolution."

Despite all the evidence, it is truly amazing that Time magazine printed “How Man Began,” an article that
shamelessly treated Java Man as though it were a true evolutionary ancestor.” 39

In this way, Darwinist publications become part of the Darwinist deception. Darwinist books writ-
ten by eminent professors and scientists repeat these false scenarios, which are entirely based on de-

ception, rather than producing genuine scientific evidence. The reason why skulls that have been re-
moved from the scientific literature and whose invalidity has been scientifically established are still kept
on the agenda is in order for this deception to be maintained. As the evolutionist zoologist Robert
Martin said to New Scientist magazine on the subject:

In recent years several authors have written popular books on human origins which were based more on fan-

tasy and subjectivity than on fact and objectivity... 40
At the present moment Darwinists have not a single skull or a single bone fragment they can point

to as evidence for supposed human evolution. The fraudulent method employed by Darwinists, who are
unable to bear this state of affairs, is to continue to deceive people by way of such false transitional form
fossils.

10. The claim that “Australopithecus is the ancestor of

man” is fraudulent

The subject of human evolution is of vital importance to Darwinists. The idea they have tried for
years to indoctrinate people with is the lie that man is a supposed evolved animal. They strive with all
their power to maintain this lie, and attempt to insert the idea that human beings have supposed animal
ancestors in even the most unrelated subjects. The deceptions to which they resort on this matter are
breathtaking. Even totally unconnected fossil find is presented in such a way as to suggest they are hu-

man beings. So much so that Darwinists produced Nebraska Man from a single fossil tooth, which
would later be proven to belong to a wild pig, and they had no qualms about depicting this entity’s en-
tire social life together with its family and community. One of the most significant examples of these as-

tonishing endeavors is their long-time claim that Australopithecus is the so-called ape-like ancestor of
man.
Australopithecus is an extinct species of ape. The name means "Southern ape," and Darwinists seek to
depict it as the first ape-like ancestor of human beings. As with all other examples, since this species of
ape is extinct, evolutionists have used it as a tool for speculation. But as with all other examples, the sce-

narios that Darwinists produce regarding Australopithecus are again based on deception.
Australopithecus is thought to have first appeared in Africa four million years ago and to have survived un-
til one million years ago. The fact that needs to be made absolutely clarified here is that all Australopithecines

are extinct apes resembling their modern-day counterparts. They all have brain volumes the same as, or small-
er than those of present-day chimpanzees. They walked on four feet. Like present-day apes they had bony pro-
trusions that helped them to climb trees, and their feet were prehensile to allow them to cling onto branches.
They were short in stature (maximum 130 centimeters) and, just like present-day apes, the male
Australopithecus was much larger than the female. Hundreds of details in their skulls, and features such as their

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