Page 87 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

They did not know that the "fossil" was a fake.
Tests applied in 1953 showed that Piltdown Man was a
combination of bones from a human being and an orangutan.

The public was amazed when this fossil, once supposed to be the
greatest proof of evolution, was removed from the British
Museum exhibit where it had been highlighted for decades.
In 1922, another scandal occurred in the United States,
smaller in scope but just as serious. A molar tooth found in the
state of Nebraska was alleged to be an intermediate form between
man and ape; and on the basis of this discovery, Nebraska Man

was concocted. In 1927, however, it was determined that this tooth
belonged neither to a human being nor to an ape, but to a wild pig.
In spite of fiascos like this, evolutionists continued their
search for human origins. Later, they came to think that extinct
apes of the genus Australopithecus were the oldest human ances-
tors. It became an evolutionist cliché that, after Australopithecus,
came species called Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erec-
tus, with the series finally ending with Homo sapiens, modern-day
man. This cliché, with its picture of apes gradually walking on two

feet, was officially adopted by textbooks, science periodicals, mag-
azines, daily newspapers, films and even commercials, and was
used uncritically for decades.

The re is in fact no "evo lu ti onary li ne" from
ape to man, and such a thing
can not be const ruc ted on
even the the ore ti cal
le vel.