Page 71 - A Historical Lie: The Stone Age
P. 71
HARUN YAHYA
Paintings discovered in the Chauvet Cave in 1994 caused an enormous
reaction in the scientific world. Before that, works of art in Ardèche, the
20,000-year-old images at Lascaux and the 17,000-year-old works in Altamira
in Spain had all attracted considerable attention. But the images in Chauvet
were a great deal older than these. Carbon dating revealed that these paint-
ings were around 35,000 years old. The following comment appeared in
National Geographic magazine:
The "Horse Panel" in the Chauvet Cave is some 6 meters (20 feet) in length.
The astonishingly beautiful paintings in the cave represent rhinoceroses, thick-maned
horses, bison, lions and ibexes among many others. Such highly-developed art, created
at a time when evolutionists expect to see only primitive scrawls, is something that can-
not be explained in terms of Darwinist theory.
69
