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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

will be worn away, and very little will remain of the furnishings in-
side. 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, there-
fore, it is impossible to make interpretations about the daily lives of
societies of that time. Their social relationships, beliefs, tastes and
artistic understanding cannot be deduced with any measure of cer-
tainty.
Yet evolutionists still attempt the impossible, adorning various
discoveries with fictitious interpretations and inventing various sce-
narios. Producing fantasies by distorting the facts is something that
is actually 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 pa-
leontologist 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 sa-
tiable 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 . .

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