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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

This means that the fossils that evolutionists
suggest represent the supposed evolutionary forebears of
man belong either to extinct species of ape or else to human

beings with different racial characteristics. None of these are half-
human and half-ape; they are either ape or human.
According to some experts who acknowledge this reality, the
myth of human evolution is nothing more than creative writing by
a group of individuals who believe in materialist philosophy and
represent natural history in terms of their own dogmatic ideas. At
a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of

Science, Oxford historian John Durant commented on the matter:
Could it be that, like "primitive" myths, theories of human evolution
reinforce the value-systems of their creators by reflecting historically
their image of themselves and of the society in which they live? 35
In a later publication, Durant says that it is worth asking
whether ideas of so-called human evolution assumed similar
functions both in pre-scientific and scientific societies, and goes on
to say:

. . . Time and again, ideas about human origins turn out on closer
examination to tell us as much about the present as about the past,
as much about our own experiences as about those of our remote
ancestors. . . [W]e are in urgent need of the de-mythologisation of
science. 36
In short, theories about human origins do nothing else than

reflect the prejudices and philosophical beliefs of their authors.
Another evolutionist who accepts this is Arizona State
University anthropologist Geoffrey Clark, who wrote
in a 1997 publication:

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