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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, demonstrating the
imaginative minds of those who deny the fact that
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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.