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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
between apes and men. The skeletal studies performed in 2000 on
Lucy by two evolutionist scientists called B. G. Richmond and D. S.
Strait, resulted in a conclusion that astonished the two evolutionists:
Lucy's hand possessed a four-legged "knuckle walking structure,"
just like those of the apes of today. Strait's comment in an interview
regarding this discovery, the details of which were covered by the
journal Nature, is striking: "I walked over to the cabinet, pulled out
Lucy, and—shazam!—she had the morphology that was classic for
knuckle walkers." 5
Homo erectus was a Human Race, not an Ape-Man
In the NGC documentary Homo erectus is portrayed as a half-
ape, half-man creature which walked upright and tried to speak by
making peculiar noises. The fact is, however, that Homo erectus was
a human race, with no ape characteristics at all.
There is no difference between the Homo erectus skeleton and
that of modern man. The primary reason for evolutionists' defining
Homo erectus as "primitive" is the cranial capacity of its skull (900-
1,100 cc), which is smaller than the average modern man, and its
thick eyebrow projections. However, there are many people living
today in the world who have the same cranial capacity as Homo erec-
tus (pygmies, for instance) and other races have protruding eye-
brows (Native Australians, for instance).
It is a commonly agreed-upon fact that differences in cranial ca-
pacity do not necessarily denote differences in intelligence or abili-
ties. Intelligence depends on the internal organization of the brain,
rather than on its volume. 6
The fossils that have made Homo erectus known to the entire
world are those of Peking man and Java man in Asia. However, in
time it was realized that these two fossils are not reliable. Peking
Man consists of some elements made of plaster whose originals have
been lost, and Java Man is "composed" of a skull fragment plus a
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