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THE SKULLS THAT DEMOLISH DARWIN





                                        BINTURONG SKULL






























                                                                               Age: 88 million years
                                                                               Period: Cretaceous
                                                                               Location: Yun Nan, China










                                                                      Darwin imagined that living things
                                                                      changed slowly. In his view, all living
                                                                      things, humans included, were descended
                                                                      from other species and thus arrived at their
                                                                                                            th
                                                                      modern-day appearances. Given that 19 -
                                                                      century science provided no evidence to
                                                                      support his hypothesis, Darwin believed
                                                                      that the intermediate-form fossils that
                                                                      should exist would be found at a later date.
                                                                      Darwin’s closest followers inherited this
                                                                      legacy of belief. Ever since that time, they
                                                                      have ceaselessly looked for the intermedi-
                                                                      ate forms that Darwin believed would
                                                                      eventually be forthcoming. However, it did
                                                                      not take long to realize that Darwin had
                                                                      been mistaken. The unaltered life forms in
                                                                      the fossil record definitively refuted
                                                                      Darwinism. One blow to this superstitious
                                                                      belief, sought to be kept alive solely as an
                                                                      ideology, is the 88-million-year binturong
                                                                      skull illustrated.



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