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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

All this reveals that the plans of equine evolution, one of the
soundest pieces of evidence for the theory of evolution, are imaginary
and possessed of no validity whatsoever. Like other species, horses
came into being with no evolutionary ancestors behind them.

Ramapithecus is regarded as one of the worst errors of the theory of
evolution. This name was given to fossil remains found in India in 1932,
which were claimed to represent the first step in the separation of
human beings and apes, some 14 million years ago. Evolutionists used
it as iron-clad evidence over the 50 years from its first discovery in 1932,
until it was realized to be completely erroneous in 1982.
In the May 1977 edition of Scientific American, the American evolu-
tionist Dr. Elwyn Simons wrote the following about Ramapithecus: “This
extinct primate is the earliest hominid or distinctively man-like, mem-
ber of man’s family tree. The finding of many new specimens of it has
clarified its place in human evolution.” He then added, with even
greater confidence, “pathway can now be traced
with little fear of contradiction from generalized
hominids—to the genus Homo.” 142
The importance of Ramapithecus in human
evolution was realized with an article Simons wrote
for Time magazine in November 1977, in which he
stated: “Ramapithecus is ideally structured to be an
ancestor of hominids. If he isn’t, we don’t Dryopithecus
have anything else that is.” 143
An article by Dr. Robert B. Eckhardt,
published in Scientific American in 1972, con-
sidered the conclusions from 24 different mea-
surements of Ramapithecus teeth and those of
Dryopithecus (an extinct species of gorilla). Dr.
Ramapithecus

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