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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

In 1995, the German archaeologist Hartmut Thieme discovered a num-
ber of wooden remains in Schöningen, Germany. These had been carefully
crafted spears—in other words, the world's oldest known hunting tools. This
discovery came as a great surprise to evolutionists, in whose view systematic
hunting occurred about 40,000 years ago, when modern humans supposedly
first appeared. To make the Clacton and Lehringen spears, which had been
found earlier, fit with the evolutionary lie, they had been downgraded to dig-
ging-sticks or snow-probes. 18
Actually, however, the Schöningen spears went back a great deal fur-
ther—to around 400,000 years ago. In addition, their age was so certain that
Robin Dennell, one of the Sheffield University archaeologists whose paper
was published in Nature magazine, stated that it was impossible to alter their
date or to engage in false interpretation of them:
But the Schöningen discoveries are unambiguously spears: to regard them
as snow-probes or digging-sticks is like claiming that power drills are paper-
weights. 19
One reason why these spears
so surprised evolutionist scientists
is the misconception that the sup-
posedly primitive humans of that
time lacked the ability to manufac-
ture such objects. Yet these spears
are the product of a mind able to
calculate and plan in stages. The
trunk of a spruce tree around 30

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