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HARUN YAHYA

Evidence provided in The Hidden History of the Human Race: Forbidden
Archeology, by the archaeologists Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson,
overturns the picture of the evolution of mankind as advocated by evolutionists.
This book documents remains from totally unexpected—from the evolutionist
viewpoint—periods in history. In the 1950s, for example, Thomas E. Lee, an anthro-
pologist at the National Museum of Canada, carried out excavations at Sheguiandah,
on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. There he found implements in a layer of glacial
till, a deposit of sand and gravel left by receding glaciers. When it emerged that these
were between 65,000 and 125,000 years old, the publication of the results of his re-
search was postponed—because, according to the misconception dominating the
scientific world, human beings had first arrived in North America from Siberia only
120,000 years ago, and it was impossible to claim that this happened any earlier.
Another example provided in the book is archaeologist Carlos Ameghino,
who discovered stone tools in an undisturbed 3-million-year-old Pliocene formation
at Miramar, Argentina. From the same layers, he extracted the femur of a toxodon,
an extinct South American hoofed mammal. Embedded in the femur was a stone ar-
rowhead or lance point. Later, another researcher found a piece of a human jaw-
bone in the same formation. Yet according to Darwinists, human beings capable of
making stone balls and arrowheads emerged only 100,000 to 150,000 years ago.
Therefore, any bones and arrowheads dating back 3 million years are phenomena
that evolutionists are unable to explain. This shows, yet again, that the theory of evo-
lution is incompatible with the scientific facts. 31
In his book Ancient Traces, the British researcher and writer Michael Baigent
describes how a gold chain between 260 and 320 million years old was discovered in
1891. It emerged that this chain was of eight-carat gold, which is eight parts gold
mixed with sixteen parts of another metal. The middle of the chain—which emerged
from inside a piece of coal—was loosened, although the two ends were firmly em-
bedded. Excellent imprints of the loosened section remained in the coal. All this

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