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lived in impressive wooden houses, built beautiful villas with glass windows and used the most attractive

decorative materials, obviously very little evidence of this would survive the erosive effects of the interven-
ing centuries of wind, rain, earthquakes and floods. Under natural conditions, it takes only an average of 100
to 200 years for timber, glass, copper, bronze and various other metals to be worn away. In other words, in

two centuries' time, the walls of your house will be worn away, and very little will remain of the furnishings
inside. Even less will be left if it is subjected to earthquakes, floods or storms. All that will be left will be
stone blocks that take much longer to be eroded away. Even then, stone materials will be worn away into
smaller fragments. On the basis of these blocks of stone, therefore, it is impossible to make interpretations
about the daily lives of societies of that time. Their social relationships, beliefs, tastes and artistic under-

standing cannot be deduced with any measure of certainty.
Yet evolutionists still attempt the impossible, adorning various discoveries with fictitious interpreta-
tions and inventing various scenarios. Producing fantasies by distorting the facts is something that is actu-

ally criticized by some evolutionists themselves! They have even given this approach the name of "Just So
Stories."
That term appears in a criticism by the famous evolutionist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, which
term he borrowed from the 1902 book of the same name by the British writer and poet Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936). In this book of tales intended for children, Kipling told a number of imaginative stories about

how living things might have acquired their various organs and attributes. About the elephant's trunk, for
example, he wrote this:

In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose ...
But there was one Elephant—a new Elephant, an Elephant's Child—who was full of satiable curiosity ... So he
went on ...till he trod on what he thought was a log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy
Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees. But it was really the Crocodile ... Then the Elephant's Child put his

head down close to the Crocodile's musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose ... Then
the Elephant's Child sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to
stretch. And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he
pulled, and pulled, and pulled. 38

Rudyard Kipling's
book, Just So
Stories

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