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. . . the evolution of Man is said to have been driven by improvements in posture, brain size, and the coordina-
tion between hand and eye, which led to technological achievements such as fire, the manufacture of tools, and

the use of language. But such scenarios are subjective. They can never be tested by experiment, and so they are
unscientific. They rely for their currency not on scientific test, but on assertion and the authority of their presen-
tation. Given the ubiquitous chatter of journalists and headline writers about the search for ancestors, and the
discovery of missing links, it may come as a surprise to learn that most professional palaeontologists do not

think of the history of life in terms of scenarios or narratives, and that they rejected the storytelling mode of evo-
lutionary history as unscientific more than thirty years ago. 44

Gee states that no pattern of evolution can be extracted from the fossil record, and that there is only a
number of unrelated fossils "floating around in an overwhelming sea of gaps":

New fossil discoveries are fitted into this preexisting story. We call these new discoveries "missing links", as if
the chain of ancestry and descent were a real object for our contemplation, and not what it really is: a completely
human invention created after the fact, shaped to accord with human prejudices. . . . Each fossil represents an

isolated point, with no knowable connection to any other given fossil, and all float around in an overwhelming
sea of gaps. 45

These very important admissions say that the theory of evolution, which for 150 years pretended to
give a scientific answer to the question of our origins, was only a scenario imposed on science by a particu-
lar worldview. Gee refers to this saying "from our vantage point in the present, we arrange fossils in an order that
reflects gradual acquisition of what we see in ourselves. We do not seek the truth; we create it after the fact, to suit our

own prejudices."
Evolutionists have finally come to accept that the myth of the "tree of human evolution," impressed on
people's minds for the past 150 years, was a human invention. In a 1996 article, the evolutionist biologist F.

Clark Howell of UC Berkeley wrote: "There is no encompassing theory of [human] evolution. . . Alas, there never
really has been." 46
Evolutionists themselves explain that the "missing link," a popular theme for newspaper headlines, will
always remain "missing" because there is no such thing. So, like other Darwinist myths, the myth of human

evolution has been exposed.
As we will see in the next chapter, it has been replaced by "information" that proves that human beings
were created.

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