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Specimen Classification Assigned Age
Neanderthal Homo sapiens (man) 35 – 70 thousand years
Swanscombe Homo sapiens .25 - .6 MY (million years)
Pithecanthropus erectus ape - like .5 MY
Australopithecus africanus ape – like 4.4 MY
Zinjanithropus ape-like 1.75 MY
Skull 1470 man-like 2.8 MY
Ethiopean jaw man-like 3-4 MY
Castenedolo Homo sapiens 2 + MY

Do you see a problem? Notice that the apparent age of
the specimens doesn’t match the evolutionary tree. One
skull and a jaw that are man-like are dated older than
some of the ape-like specimens in the line of human
evolution. If you carefully examine the supposed “missing
links” between the evolution of apes to men, you basically
come up with two classifications. The fossil was a man or
man-like or the fossil was an ape or ape-like.

Let’s go back to the introduction where there were
models of busts of various specimens who evolved from
ape to man. The only models that had reliable fossils to
support them were the first one, the ape, and the last
one, the man. Artist with amazing talents and ingenious
minds sculped them from their preconceived ideas about how man evolved from an ape. Next time you
go to the natural history museum in your area, you may see an entire display of an ape-man,
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demonstrating the imaginative minds of those who deny the fact that God created man on the 6 day of
creation, fully mature, and presented him with a wife so that he could multiply and fill the earth.

The model of Australopithecus afarensis on the
left was created from the fossil remains of the
picture to its left. How the artist knew what
this specimen looked like when it was alive is
mind boggling. You can see, the artist must
have a vivid imagination to successfully create
the model on the right?

For a thorough treatment on the assessment of
human fossils, read Marvin L. Lubenow’s book,
Bones of Contention—A Creationist Assessment
of Human Fossils published by Baker Books.

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