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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
stated above, "human-type" behavior or the demonstration of a
"human-type" culture in certain aspects by a living being is again no
evidence for the theory of evolution.
National Geographic TV engages in two major distortions here.
First, the example is given of a macaque washing the sand off a po-
tato in the sea before eating it. Second, an adult macaque is shown
forcibly taking the stones a younger monkey is playing with out of
its hand.
It is stated that the washing of the potato in water is behavior
that was first developed by one macaque in the group and then
taught to the others. This is taken to be a sign of culture. The taking
away by the adult of the stone the younger macaques are playing
with is compared to the way that children playing in a nursery take
each other's toys. It is suggested here that the way the adult engages
in a display of strength by taking it away from the younger animal
shows that macaques imbue the stone with a kind of social signifi-
cance.
The fact that a monkey engages in "humane" cleaning and dis-
plays a "toy" culture cannot be put forward as evidence for evolu-
tion. Evolutionists persistently fixate on monkey culture, and are ac-
customed to portray this as a whole entity, based on particular com-
munication between monkeys. The aim here is to install the idea in
people's minds that human culture is a phenomenon which
emerged with evolution, and that among animals the nearest level
to human culture is that exhibited by monkeys.
Yet the wild bee known as schwarzula or the leafcutter ant ex-
hibit an even more complex culture – that of agriculture.
Schwarzula engages in "livestock rearing" by making use of secre-
tions from a species of larva it gathers up and collects in its nest.
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Leafcutter ants engage in "agriculture" by growing fungus. Another
species of ant collects resin from trees and uses this as an antiseptic
to purify its nest from germs. This is a sign of a "culture of medi-
cine." The way that creatures which (according to evolutionists) are
"simpler" than apes and much further removed from man than
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