Page 523 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

To shape stone, various
tools of even harder
iron or steel are
needed.. Just like
today's stonemasons,
those builders and arti-
sans of the past used
such metal implements
in cutting and shaping
stones.

DENTAL TREATMENT USING PROFESSIONAL

TECHNIQUES 8,000 YEARS AGO

Excavation carried out in Pakistan revealed that more than 8,000 years ago, dentists drilled teeth to re-

move decay. During the digs, Professor Andrea Cucina of the University of Missouri-Columbia noticed
tiny holes, around 2.5 mm in diameter, on molars between 8,000 and 9000 years old. Impressed by the
perfection of these holes, Cucina expanded his research by having his team examine the holes under an
electron microscope. They found that these tiny holes' sides were too perfectly rounded to be caused by
bacteria. In other words, these were not natural cavities, but the result of artificial intervention, for the
purposes of treatment. None of the teeth showed any sign of decay. That, as New Scientist magazine put
it, "could simply be testimony to the skill of the prehistoric dentists." 24

At this time, according to the evolutionist doctrine, human beings had only recently diverged from
apes. They were living under exceedingly primitive conditions and had only just learned to make

earthenware pots, and then only in certain regions. How did people in such primitive circumstances
manage to drill such perfect cavities in teeth that required dental treatment, even though they pos-
sessed no technology? Evidently these people were not primitive, and neither were the conditions in
which they lived. On the contrary, they possessed the knowledge to diagnose disease and produce
methods of treatment, and the technical means to use these methods successfully. Once again, this in-
validates the Darwinist claim that societies evolve from the primitive to the modern.

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