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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

but a fairy tale, adding that so
much of science is based on such
tales. He stresses that he uses the
word "tale" in a positive sense, but
that still, this is exactly what they
are. He then invites his readers to
consider the traditional attributes
of the so-called human evolution:
cooking and campfires, dark
caves, rites, tool-making, aging,
struggle and death. How much of
these conjectures, he wonders,
are based on bones and actual re-
mains, and how much on literary
criteria?
Bahn is reluctant to openly
answer the question he poses:
namely, that man's alleged evolu-
tion is based on "literary" criteria
This stone carving is 11,000 years old— rather than scientific ones.
when, according to evolutionists, only
In fact, there are a great many
crude, stone tools were in use. However,
such a work cannot be produced by rub- unanswered questions and logical
bing one stone against another. inconsistencies in these accounts,
Evolutionists can offer no rational, logi-
which someone thinking along
cal explanation of such reliefs formed so
accurately. Intelligent humans using the lines of evolutionist dogma
tools of iron or steel must have produced
will fail to detect. Evolutionists
this and other similar works.
refer to a Stone Age, for example,
but are at a loss to explain how implements or remains from the time
could have been carved and shaped. In the same way, they can never
explain how winged insects first came to fly, though they maintain

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