This fossil was discovered over a century ago (1857), in a cove near Neander Valley, near Dusseldorf, Germany.
He was first portrayed and painted as a semierect brutish subhuman, bow-legged and stoop-shouldered, due to the bias of the evolutionist. His handpainted reconstruction served to brainwash many into believing in evolution, including the EXPERTS testifying or reporting on the Scopes Monkey Trial.
After many other discoveries it was learned that these humans, and they were humans not apes, had suffered severally from rickets, caused by a deficiency of vitamin D. This condition results in softening of bone and consequent malformation. In fact, some of the skull fossils were larger than the average modern skull.
It is now known, after other discoveries, that Neanderthal was the same as modern man........They buried their dead with religious significance, and were probably the source of at least some cave drawings. They crafted and used tools, cultivated crops, and no doubt had a spoken language. Some evidence exists of record-keeping and possible writing. These were totally human individuals.
Furthermore, we now know that
Neanderthal-like features are still with us. Some experts think
that Neanderthals are today's east Europeans. A tribe of Philippines
show similar characteristics. Once a full skeleton of a knight
buried in a full suit of armor was found to have the typical Neanderthal
body style.
While there may have been some justification for citing the Neanderthals
at the Scopes Monkey Trial,
there is no longer such justification. We now know thoday that
Neanderthal Man was fully human, a fact recognized today by all
scientists, even evolutionists. Unfortunately, Neanderthal still
appears in textbooks and museums as an ape-man, especially in
the minds of the public.
*Homoerctus has come to be a catch-all category for quite a number of human-like fossils that have something about them to suggest a connection with the apes. At the time of the Scopes Monkey Trial the only one available was a specimen of Java, found by Eugene Dubois in 1891.
JAVA MAN.....In 1891 fragmented fossils were discovered by Eugene Dubois, at Trivil, Java. Dubois named his "creature" Pitchecanthropeuc [erect ape-man], or Homo Erectus (Java man). These fragmented fossils (skullcap, a thigh bone, and two teeth) were found in an old river bed. The fragment of the skullcap found in 1891 and a human femur (thighbone) were put together to form yet another "missing link". {The femur was found 70 feet away from the fragmented skull and one year later in 1892}. To further complicate matters, in this old river bed the remains were found "mixed -in" with bones of other extinct animals.........
You will probably never read the following facts in an encylopedia, because the evolutionist have so cleverly "omitted" these facts: Because of the fame and glory he received from the Java fossils, Dubois failed to exhibit two "human skulls" he found at almost the same level as the Java fossils. This would have nullified his initial discovery. He had kept this secret for 30 years.
Even more astounding is the fact that Dubois himself, right before his death, changed his mind and declared that Java man was nothing more than a large gibbon. Yet, you will continue to read in libraries and other places that there have been other discoveries "yielding bones" of other Java men, (at such places like Sangiran and others ), but what you will not read is that these "bones" are nothing more than a few teeth and fragmented skulls.
The evidence is even worse for them now, for numerous Homo erectus specimens have been found-----complete with tools, and indications of the use of fire----all evidence that they were truly human. Despite the checkered past, and the recent reassignment to the genus Homo, many leading evolutionists and public school textbooks still use Java man as prime evidence that man evolved from the apes.
Truly, one would be almost completely persuaded that all the facts were being presented honestly and that truly "the missing link" had been found. But now you know better.
PEKING MAN: If one accepts uncritically the evidence
usually presented in texts and treatise on Peking Man, the case
for the existence of near-man would seem established. The skull
model and flesh reconstructions available today of Peking man,
show a remarkable resemblance to modern man. A close examination
of the reports related to Peking man, however, reveal a tangled
web of contradictions, highly subjective treatment of the data,
a peculiar and unnatural state of the fossil bones, and the loss
of essentially all of the fossil material. Fossil remains were
discovered about 25 miles from Peking, China during the periods
from 1920-1930. Fragments of about 30 skulls, 11 mandibles, and
47 teeth with a few very fragmented limb bones. All these fossils
except two teeth "mysteriously" disappeared. As a result,
all that is available today are reconstructed plaster models and
written descriptions; all of which were fashioned by Franz Weidenreich
and Davidson Black, both of whom were evolutionist and totally
committed to evolution..........
Piltdown man was discovered in 1912 by Charles Dawson. The skull was undoubtedly human but the jaws and teeth were ape.This combination of features was accepted and hailed by scholars as "THE MISSING LINK" between apes and humans.
This "true" ape-man was to be a cornerstone of the ACLU Scopes Monkey Trial case. Here was proof that the apes had evolved a large brain, and were clearly on their way to becoming human.
Only one problem. The whole thing was a hoax! Someone had doctored the bones. They were discolored with bromate of potash to look old; the ape's teeth were filed to make them look more human, and these were then "salted" in a place sure to be found.
Many scientists of the day
were rightly skeptical, but this was the kind of evidence needed
to support evolution, and soon prejudice won out over the facts.
The fraud was finally admitted in 1953, long after the Scopes
Monkey Trial. Only after it was viewed in a glass case in
museums and textbooks had indoctrinated two generations of students.
A world of experts had studied these fossils, over 50 Ph.D. dissertations
had been published, and no one reported the unlikely staining,
or the file marks evident on the teeth.
There is no mystery as to how such obviously fraudulently-doctored bones could fool the world's greatest experts for 40 years. They must have wanted desperately to see apelike characteristics in the human skull and humanlike characteristics in the ape jaw, and they succeeded.
In 1922 America proclaimed
its own fossil man, when a single molar was found in Nebraska.
The Nebraska Ape-Man was discovered in 1922 by Harold Cook in
the Pliocene deposits of Nebraska. Though it was only a single
tooth, Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, head of the prestigious
American Museum of Natural History in New York City, declared
it to be man's early ancestor. Officially called Hesperopithecus,
Nebraska Man was an immediate hit, complete with a two-page spread
in the Illustrated London News.
From a single tooth was drawn a whole family. The naked ape-man, sporting his club, was flanked by his naked wife gathering roots for supper. Behind them were a herd of camels and a herd of horses, whose fossils had been found in the same deposit, but were extinct in that location long ago.
The imaginative newspaper coverage and the timing of the find made a big impression at the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. Nebraska man was never introduced into the trial, since the lead paleoanthropologist Dr. Fay Cooper Cole had some misgivings about it, but it was "there" nonetheless.
To the embarrassment of many scientist the tooth was later discovered to belong to an extinct species of pig........It was shortly after the Scopes Monkey Trial that some more fossil bones of the owner of that tooth were found, and it was not human after all. Rather, an extinct variety of pig had been on display. To make matters worse, in 1972 the pig variety was found still alive in Paraguay.
Needless to say, little publicity was given to the discovered error.
There is a lesson to be learned. A similar discovery, which was also based upon a single tooth, was the Southwest Colorado Man. It is now known that this particular tooth actually belonged to a horse!!
INCLUDES AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS AND AUSTRALOPITHECUS ROBUSTUS: These fossils were discovered by Ramond Dart in 1924. The name Australopithecus means "southern- ape". Both creatures had ape-skulls and jaws, with these features being particularly obvious in the case of Australopithecus robustus. Again, it is only the dentition (teeth) that elevated them to "the missing link". Yet in Aus. Africanus, even though it only weighed 60-70 lbs..., or about the same size as a small chimpanzee, it had cheek teeth as large as some orangutans and gorillas; simply, a living baboon......
The discovery itself generated
little but controversy, but it was found within months of the
Scopes Monkey Trial, and received
much attention by the American press. The expert testimony expressed
uncertainty and caution, but such was not in the newspaper reports.
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Also this name will be recognized by all students of today, for current opinion is that modern man evolved in Africa, and many recent finds are considered in this genus. It has come to be known as the Taung child, after the quarry in which it was found.
Dart's Taung child is dismissed these days by many as that of a young ape, but the hunt for African fossils was on, and continues today, with Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey, their son Richard Leakey, Drs. Donald Johannson and Tim White playing central roles.
Undoubtedly, the most notoriety was given to Johannson's 1974 discovery of"lucy," Australopithecus afarensis. While most fossil discoveries are extremely fragmentary, "Lucy" was 40% complete. Considered a female, she stood less than 3 1/2 feet tall. Her skull was not found, but a portion of the lower jaw was fully ape-like. Other Australopithecus fossils have all been fully ape from the neck up, with cranial capacity in the range of chimps. From the neck down, "Lucy" had two features which suggested that she walked more erect than other apes, and thus was a "missing link." If the hip is viewed from a certain angle, it appeared (to Johannson at least) that it allowed a slightly more erect posture.
Other investigators, studying
these and other remains with more sophisticated methods, disagree.
Furthermore, "Lucy's" knee joint hints at more erect
posture, but, again, other experts disagree, and much question
has been raised as to the discovery location of the proposed knee
joint. Was it in the same area? Many think not, but the truth
is hard to ferret out.
But even if the knee belongs with the rest of Lucy, and both knee
and hip allow more erect posture, we will have a chimp-sized ape,
with long, curved fingers and toes, just right for swinging in
trees. It appears that these creatures were apes, perhaps an extinct
species of ape, but not in the line of humans.
The charade continues, with funding, fame and enormous egos at stake. A recent announcement by White told of his discovery of 17 fragments of bone, none bigger than a man's fingernail. A chip from the elbow impressed him that this creature walked a little less erect than "Lucy;" therefore, it was a still earlier ancestor of man.
.............In more recent times Louis Leakey has found evidence of both the Australopithecus and Homo Erectus (Java man & Peking man), in bed II of the Olduvai Gorge; which raises the question.....How could one chimpanzee evolve into another chimpanzee, if both existed together?? Can the offspring be older than the parent?(no). Also this site has produced evidence of stone habitations around an ancient rock quarry. Even more confusing in this complicated web of deception known as evolution, the son of Louis Leakey, Richard Leakey, reports the find of a human skull (near Lake Turkana, in Kenya, East Africa) that was found in a bed deposit older than Australopitacheus. This find completely nullifies all existing"THEORIES".
THEROPITHECUS
GLADA, shares the same characteristics as
these australopithecines. Also peculiar to the Australopithecines
was the claim by Dart and later through studies by Robert Broom,
of several fragmented pelvis and thighbone fossils, that this
4 feet high Aust. was an erect biped (walked upright). However,
more recently, Zolly Zuckerman, a famous British Anatomist, and
Dr. Charles Oxnard, Professor of Anatomy and anthropology at the
University of Chicago, have declared from their studies that the
Australopitchines resemblances (the multivariate studies of anatomical
regions of the pelvis) indicated that they were not bipedal, but
that their mode of locomotion was that of orangutans, whose mode
of locomotion is similar to walking upright. Another fossil discovery
was that of Homo Habilis and the same details apply to this discovery.
The only difference "terminology speaking" is their
claim of it being a more "modern" monkey.
RAMAPITHECUS
JAW BONE
RAMAPITHECUS: Ramapithecus was discovered in North
India in 1934 by a geologist named G. E. Lewis. The evidence which
put Ramapithecus in the spotlight as being the missing link, consisted
of a few teeth and fragments of a jaw. On the basis of this extremely
fragmented evidence, evolutionist claim this creature was the
"beginnings" of modern man. It would be impossible to
list all the evidence against Ramapithecus. Space only allows
one: Dr. Robert Eckhardt, a paleoanthropologist at Penn. State
University, compared the measurements from the teeth fossils of
Ramapithecus to the range of variations made on a population of
living chimpanzees at a research center, and on a sample of wild
chimpanzees in Libera. Results ? There were greater variations
among the living chimps than there was between the Ramapithecus
teeth fossils and a known ape fossil. (Dryopithecine) Conclusion:
Ramapithecus was an ape - morphologically & ecologically.
Nothing more. There have been other discoveries consisting also
of fragmented jaws and teeth yielding the same results..
Other discoveries could be discussed, dating since the Scopes Monkey Trial, but suffice it here to note that of the five evidences in question in 1925, one was a hoax, one an ape, two (at least) perfectly human, and one a pig.
The biggest victory for evolution
was built on false leads, and things have improved little since.
The concept of "ape-men" is as absurd as the theory of the giraffe-man, and as some evolutionist have claimed (the dinosaur-man). This is a theory which says man could have evolved into a half-man and half-dinosaur. There never has been an ape-man............ but there have been many, "cavemen". The oldest book in the bible, Job, describes people in the regions of Northern Arabia.......
Job 30 verses 3-8..........verse 3......for want & famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. verse 4.......who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. verse 5.......they were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) verse 6......to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in the caves of the earth and in the rocks. verse 7.....Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.verse 8.....they were children of fools, yea children of base men; they were viler than the Earth.