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coloring techniques employed in these drawings are of such quality as to astonish researchers. Even so,

Darwinist scientists evaluate them through their own prejudices, interpreting these works in a biased manner
so as to fit in with their evolutionary fairy tales. They claim that beings who had just become humans drew pic-
tures of animals they either feared or hunted, and did so in the exceedingly primitive conditions of the caves in

which they lived. Yet the techniques these works employ show that their artists possessed a very deep under-
standing, and were able to depict it in a most impressive manner.
The painting techniques employed also show that they did not live under primitive conditions at all. In ad-
dition, these drawings on cave walls are no evidence that people of the time lived in those caves. The artists
may have lived in elaborate shelters nearby, but chose to create their images on the cave walls. What emotions

and thoughts led them to select what to represent are something known only to the artist. Much speculation
has been produced regarding these drawings, of which the most unrealistic interpretation is that they were
made by beings who were still in a primitive state. Indeed, a report published on the BBC's Science web page

on 22 February, 2000, contained the following lines regarding cave paintings:
... [we] thought that they were made by primitive people... But according to two scientists working in South Africa,
this view of the ancient painters is totally wrong. They believe the paintings are evidence of a complex and modern

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If many of our present-day artworks were to be analyzed with the same logic in thousands of years' time, a
number of debates might arise over whether 21st-century society was a primitive tribal one or an advanced civ-

ilization. If undamaged pictures by present-day artists were discovered 5,000 years on, and if no written docu-
mentation regarding the present day had survived, what would people of the future think about our own age?
If people of the future discovered works by Van Gogh or Picasso and judged them from an evolutionist per-
spective, how would they regard today's society? Would the landscapes of Claude Monet inspire comments

like "Industry had not yet developed, and people led an agricultural way of life," or the abstract pictures of
Wassily Kandinsky inspire comments along the lines of "People still unable to read or write communicated by
way of various scribbles"? Would such interpretations lead them to any insights about our present-day society?

If later generations were to evaluate the
present-day artworks in light of evolu-
tionist preconceptions, very different
opinions about our society might result.
Evolutionists of the future might view
the works of Pablo Picasso or Salvador
Dali, or other surrealists, and suggest
that people of our day were rather prim-
itive. However, that would totally fail to
reflect the true facts.

Middle: Man with a Pipe, Pablo Picasso
Guitar, Pablo Picasso

Left: The Flaming Horse, Salvador Dali
Right: Exploding Clock, Salvador Dali

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