Page 25 - A Historical Lie: The Stone Age

HARUN YAHYA

hard stone such as granite and try to turn it into a spearhead of the
kind used by people living 100,000 years ago. But you are not al-
lowed to use anything else than that piece of granite and a stone.
How successful do you think you might be? Can you produce a
piece with the same narrow point, symmetry, smoothness and polish
as those found in the historical strata? Let us go even further; take a
piece of granite one meter square and on it, try and carve a picture of
an animal, imparting a sense of depth. What kind of result could you
produce by grinding that rock with another piece of hard stone?
Clearly, in the absence of tools made of steel and iron you can make
neither a simple spearhead, much less an impressive stone carving.
Stone-cutting and stone carving are fields of expertise all their
own. The requisite technology is essential in order to make files,
lathes and other tools. This demonstrates that at the time these ob-
jects were made, the "primitive" technology was well advanced. In
other words, evolutionists' claims that only simple stone imple-
ments were known, that there was no technology in existence, are
myths. Such "Stone-Only" Age has never existed.
However, it is perfectly plausible that any steel and iron tools
used in cutting and shaping stones should not have survived down
to the present day. In a naturally moist and acidic environment, all
kinds of metal tools will oxidize and eventually disappear. All that
will be left is chips and fragments of the stone they worked, which
take much longer to vanish. But to examine these fragments and
suggest that people at the time used only stone is not scientific rea-
soning.
Indeed, a great many evolutionists now admit that archaeologi-
cal findings do not support Darwinism at all. Richard Leakey, an
evolutionist archaeologist, confessed that it's impossible to account
for the archaeological findings, especially stone tools, in terms of the

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