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FINDINGS THAT REFUTE THE EVOLUTIONIST

PICTURE OF MANKIND'S HISTORY

Evidence provided in The Hidden History of the Human Race: Forbidden Archeology, by the archaeologists
Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, overturns the picture of the evolution of mankind as ad-
vocated by evolutionists. This book documents remains from totally unexpected—from the evolution-
ist viewpoint—periods in history. In the 1950s, for example, Thomas E. Lee, an anthropologist at the
National Museum of Canada, carried out excavations at Sheguiandah, on Manitoulin Island in Lake
Huron. There he found implements in a layer of glacial till, a deposit of sand and gravel left by reced-

ing glaciers. When it emerged that these were between 65,000 and 125,000 years old, the publication of
the results of his research was postponed—because, according to the misconception dominating the
scientific world, human beings had first arrived in North America from Siberia only 120,000 years ago,
and it was impossible to claim that this happened any earlier.

Another example provided in the book is archaeologist Carlos Ameghino, who discovered stone tools
in an undisturbed 3-million-year-old Pliocene formation at Miramar, Argentina. From the same layers,
he extracted the femur of a toxodon, an extinct South American hoofed mammal. Embedded in the
femur was a stone arrowhead or lance point. Later, another researcher found a piece of a human jaw-
bone in the same formation. Yet according to Darwinists, human beings capable of making stone balls
and arrowheads emerged only 100,000 to 150,000 years ago. Therefore, any bones and arrowheads dat-
ing back 3 million years are phenomena that evolutionists are unable to explain. This shows, yet again,

that the theory of evolution is incompatible with the scientific facts. 31

In his book Ancient Traces, the British researcher and writer Michael Baigent describes how a gold chain

between 260 and 320 million years old was discovered in 1891. It emerged that this chain was of eight-
carat gold, which is eight parts gold mixed with sixteen parts of another metal. The middle of the
chain—which emerged from inside a piece of coal—was loosened, although the two ends were firmly
embedded. Excellent imprints of the loosened section remained in the coal. All this shows that the
chain had to be as old as the coal itself. The age of the coal seams in which the chain was found was 260
to 320 million years. 32 The discovery of a gold chain, from a time when evolutionists maintain that
human beings did not yet even exist, totally demolished the history of mankind they've drawn up.

The fact that a society uses jewelry and produces decorative items is proof that its citizens enjoyed a
civilized life. Moreover, making a gold chain requires both technical expertise and equipment. No reg-

ular gold chain can be made from gold ore using stone tools alone. It's obvious that people living mil-
lions of years before our own day knew about jewelry-making and took pleasure from beautiful things.

Another finding that overturns the theory of historical evolution is a piece of a nail estimated to be 387
million years old. According to a report by Sir David Brewster of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, the nail was found in a piece of sandstone. The seam from which the stone
was taken dates back to the Early Devonian Period—making it around 387 million years old. 33

These findings, of which a great many more could be given, show that man is not a half-animal organ-
ism, as evolutionists would have us believe, and has never led an animalistic life. After listing similar
examples, Michael Baigent goes on to make the following comment:

... clearly there is no possibility that any of this data can be accommodated into the conventional scientific under-
standing of the earth's history... In fact, this evidence—if it can be substantiated even in just one of the cases we
have reviewed—indicates that humans, in a modern form, have been walking upon this planet for a very long

time indeed. 34

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