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PEOPLE LIVING 1.5 MILLION YEARS AGO LOOKED

AFTER THEIR ELDERLY

A fossil discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia in 2005 once again revealed that the "evolution of human his-
tory" scenario in no way squares with the facts. According to evolutionists' unscientific claims, the first
human beings lived like animals, with no family life or social order. However, a fossil skull belonging
to an elderly human being, discovered by the paleoanthropologist David Lordkipanidze, showed that

these claims are untrue.

The fossil discovered belonged to an older human who had only one tooth left. Scientists believe that

the owner of the skull had other diseases as well as being nearly toothless. That this person survived
well into old age, despite having so many infirmities, represents significant evidence that this individ-
ual was cared for and that others took an interest in others' welfare. Lordkipanidze says:

It is clear that this was a sick individual… We think this is a good argument that this individual had support from
other members of the group. 8

Evolutionists maintain that human beings developed social cultural behavior at least 1.5 million years
after the owner of this skull died. The fossil in question thus refutes evolutionist claims, showing that
millions of years ago people felt compassion toward the sick, looked after and protected them. This
discovery once again shows that humans have never lived like animals, but always like human beings.

In a special issue evaluating the year's major scientific discoveries, Discover magazine devoted
considerable space to this discovery, which revealed that people looked after the sick millions of
years ago and took an interest in their well-being. This finding, which was reported in an article
under the title "Did Homo erectus* Coddle His Grandparents?", revealed that human beings have
never lived like animals at any time in history, but always like human beings.

(*) Evolutionists claim that Homo erectus was an intermediate species between apes and human
beings in Man's supposed evolution. The fact is, however, that there is no difference between the
present-day human skeleton and that of Homo erectus, whose skeleton is fully upright, and fully
human.

The Advanced Art in Caves

Evolutionists maintain that some 30-40,000 years ago in Europe, and in an earlier period in Africa, so-called
ape-like humans experienced a sudden process of transition, and suddenly acquired the ability to think and
produce things, just like present-day human beings. This is because archaeological findings from that period

offer significant evidence that the theory of evolution cannot explain. According to Darwinist claims, the tech-
nology of stone implements, which had remained unchanged for almost 200,000 years, was suddenly replaced
by a more advanced and rapidly developing hand-crafted technology. So-called primitive man, who had sup-
posedly descended from the trees and begun to modernize only shortly before, suddenly developed artistic tal-

ents and began carving or painting pictures of extraordinary beauty and sophistication on cave walls and
produced exceedingly beautiful decorative objects such as necklaces and bracelets.

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