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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism
lution is now a proven fact." But who are the scien-
tists writing in newspapers and appearing on television
to make these groundless claims? Why do they disagree
with those scientists who think that paleoanthropology is un-
founded?
In a speech given at a meeting of the Biology Teachers
Association of South Australia, evolutionist Greg Kirby explained
their psychology:
If you were to spend your life picking up bones and finding little
fragments of head and little fragments of jaw, there's a very strong
desire there to exaggerate the importance of those fragments. . . 39
These are some of the factors that keep the myth of human
evolution alive, even though it has evidently found no scientific
support. And every new fossil discovered thrusts the evolutionist
thesis about human origins deeper into doubt.
The Admission that There is no "Missing Link"
The latest example showing the impasse confronting evolu-
tionist theses was a fossil skull discovered in the Central African
country of Chad by the French scientist Michel Brunet, who called
it Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
In the world of Darwinism, this fossil caused a division of
opinion. The well-known magazine Nature admitted that
"new-found skull could sink our current ideas about
human evolution." 40
Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University
said that "this [discovery] will have the
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