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HARUN YAHYA

plies, add bulk to the paint without diluting the color. The four recipes for ex-
tenders used at Niaux were talc; a mixture of baryte and potassium feldspar;
potassium feldspar alone; and potassium feldspar mixed with an excess of bi-
otite. Clottes and his colleagues experimented with some of these extenders
and found them to be extremely effective. 12
This highly advanced technique is evidence that no being that can be de-
scribed as primitive ever existed in the past. Ever since Man first came into exis-
tence, he has been a superior being, with the ability to think, speak, reason,
understand, analyze, plan and produce. It is completely irrational and illogical to
claim that people who used extender to color their paintings and who success-
fully mixed such substances as talc, baryte, potassium feldspar and biotite to ob-
tain such extenders had only recently parted ways with apes and become
civilized.

Pigments used in the cave paintings
were made from mixtures that even a
student of chemistry would find it hard
to reproduce. These compounds have
very complex formulae and can be ob-
tained today only by chemical engi-
neers in laboratories. It is clear that
paints obtained from such materials as
talc, baryte, potassium feldspar and bi-
otite require a detailed chemical knowl-
edge. It is impossible to describe their
makers as supposedly "newly devel-
oped."

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