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               tion rep re sent ed the foun da tion of  years ago, and dis ap peared, or else
               Darwin's the o ry.                  were  as sim i lat ed  by  mix ing  with
                  Stephen Jay Gould, one of the    oth er hu man ra ces, si lent ly and just
               best-known  con tem po ra ry  ev o lu -  as quick ly about 35,000 years ago.
               tion ists, says this about Darwinism's  The on ly dif fer ence be tween them
               grave er ror:                       and present-day hu mans is that their
                  The es sence of Darwinism lies in a sin -  skel e tons  are  rath er  stur di er  and
                  gle phrase: nat u ral se lec tion is the cre -  their brain vol umes slight ly larg er.
                  a tive force of ev o lu tion a ry change. No  Neanderthals were a well-built hu -
                  one de nies that se lec tion will play a  man race, as is now agreed by just
                  neg a tive role in elim i nat ing the un fit.  about ev ery one.
                  Darwinian the o ries re quire that it cre -  Evolutionists, on the oth er hand,
                  ate the fit as well.  70
                  In an ar ti cle pub lished in
               American Scientist mag a zine, the ev -
               o lu tion ist C. Loring Brace de scribes
               how Darwinism has been re fut ed by
               sci en tif ic dis cov er ies and states that
               we can not re gard nat u ral se lec tion
               as an ev o lu tion a ry mech a nism:
                  Readers of American Scientist may
                  not re al ize the ex tent to which a ma jor
                  part of the field of bi ol o gy and al most
                  all  of  pa le on tol o gy  has  re ject ed
                  Darwin's in sights con cern ing or gan ic
                  ev o lu tion.  Natural  se lec tion  is  dis -
                  missed as con trib ut ing noth ing more
                  than "fine-tun ing," and ad ap ta tion is
                  large ly ig nored in prac tice.  71




               NEANDERTHALS:
               A HUMAN RACE
                  The Neanderthals emerged sud -
               den ly in Europe around 300,000
                                                         A fos sil be long ing to a Neanderthal
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