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Today, even evolutionists admit that
Broca's conclusions have no scientific

value. Gould offers the following
comment:
… they [Broca's facts] were gath-
ered selectively and then manipu-
lated unconsciously in the service
of prior conclusions. 154
To put it another way,
Broca had "unconsciously" inter-
preted the data he obtained in a
Gustave Le Bon
preconceived way, in light of the de-
ceptive theory of evolution.
Another evolutionist who used skull measurements and re-
garded women as inferior was Gustave Le Bon, one of the
founders of social psychology. Le Bon said:

In the most intelligent races ... are a large number of women
whose brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most
developed male brains. This inferiority is so obvious that no one
can contest it for a moment; only its degree is worth discussion. ...
Women ... represent the most inferior forms of human evolution
and ... are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civi-
lized man. They excel in fickleness, inconsistency, absence of
thought and logic, and incapacity to reason. Without a doubt
there exist some distinguished women ... but they are as excep-
tional as the birth of any monstrosity, as, for example, of a gorilla
with two heads; consequently, we may neglect them entirely. 155
As with so many other claims, Darwinists were totally mis-
taken in these regarding women. Contrary to what evolutionists
imagine, women's tender, compassionate and considerate way
of thinking does not mean they are backward, but actually
shows them to be superior. Programmed to regard human be-

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