Did Humans Evolve?
Evolution story
Evolution begins with the
assumption that man has evolved
from ape-like creatures
The Bible
The Bible teaches that God created
man
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female
Genesis 1:27
School Textbooks
Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, Biology – Visualizing
Life, 1998, p. 213.
“Look closely at your hand. You have
five flexible fingers. Animals with five
flexible fingers are called primates.
Monkeys, apes, and humans are
examples of primates….Primates most
likely evolved from small, insect-eating
rodentlike mammals that lived about 60
million years ago.”
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School Textbooks
Miller and Levine, Biology, 2000, p. 757.
“But all researchers agree on certain
basic facts. We know, for example,
that humans evolved from ancestors
we share with other living primates
such as chimpanzees and apes.”
Java Man Pithecanthropus erectus
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1891: An apelike skullcap
and a humanlike thighbone
were found 45 feet apart –
claim: 500,000 yrs. old
Rudolph Virchow (regarded as
the father of modern pathology)
stated at the time of discovery:
“In my opinion this creature was an animal, a giant
gibbon, in fact. The thigh bone has not the slightest
connection with the skull.”
Java Man
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fossils were also found in Java dating
about the same age as Java Man
 Leading authorities of the time
rejected Dubois’s findings
 Hackel, a prime promoter of
evolution and Java Man, already had
a reputation for fraud in promoting
his views on evolution
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Since 1950, anthropologists and
textbooks have been calling Java
man Homo erectus
Piltdown Man
Segment of lower
ape-like jaw
Segment of human skull
Piltdown Man
New York Times ran an article:
“Darwin Theory Proved True.”
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Featured in textbooks and encyclopedias
In 1953 scientists studied the bones
The Truth
A fraud (600 year old bones)
Nebraska Man
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1922 fossil evidence was
discovered
Used to support evolution in the
1925 Scopes trial
The claim: 1 million year old
intermediate link
The Truth
An extinct pig’s tooth
Ramapithecus
1930s
What they found
What they drew
Ramapithecus
Time Magazine (Nov. 7, 1977)
“Ramapithicus is ideally structured to
be an ancestor of hominids. If he isn't,
we don't have anything else that is.”
Ramapithecus
The claim: 14 million year old intermediate
between ape-like creatures and humans
The truth
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In 1970 a baboon living in Ethiopia
was discovered.
• Same dental structure
• Similar morphological features found on
Ramapithecus
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Ramapithecus dropped from human
line
Summary of “Facts”
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Java Man …………….Two different
creatures
Piltdown Man ……… Hoax
Nebraska Man …….. Pig
Ramapithecus …….. Ape
Characteristics
Anatomy
Genetics (DNA)
Neanderthals
Original Drawing of
Neanderthal
Neanderthals
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First found near Dusseldorf, Germany in 1856
Constructed to look ape-like
Brain capacity about 200 cc larger
Initial construction discovered to be wrong
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used jewelry
used musical instruments
did cave paintings
capable of speech
buried their dead
Neanderthal Burial Cites
Marvin Lubenow, “Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA:
An Evaluation,” Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal,
1998 p.89.
“Most anthropologists recognize burial
as a very human, and a very religious,
act. But the strongest evidence that
Neandertals were fully human and of
our species is that at four sites
Neanderthals and modern humans
were buried together.”
Neanderthal Anatomy
Thick brow
Stocky body build
Short extremities
Neanderthal Anatomy
B. Endo, “Experimental Studies on the Mechanical
Significance of the Form of the Human Facial
Skeleton,” J. Fac. Univ. Tokyo, 1966.
Biochemical models have
demonstrated that chewing
muscles working through the
teeth generates intensive
concentration of compression in
the nasal and forehead
region…i.e. a bigger brow ridge.
Neanderthal DNA
Nicholas Comninellis, M.D., Creative Defense:
Evidence Against Evolution, 2001, p. 195. (citing
Marvin Lubenow, “Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA:
An Evaluation,” Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal,
1998.)
“Analysis of Neanderthal DNA
failed to demonstrate any
significance from DNA of modern
humans.”
Neanderthals Were Human
Dave Phillips (Physical Anthropologist),
“Neanderthals Are Still Human,” Impact Article #223,
May, 2000
“Neanderthals were human. They buried
their dead, used tools, had a complex
social structure, employed language,
and played musical instruments.
Neanderthal anatomy differences are
extremely minor and can be for the
most part explained as a result of a
genetically isolated people that lived a
rigorous life in a harsh, cold climate.”
Conclusion About Neanderthals
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Protruding brow ridge
Stocky body build and short
extremities
Isolated population of people
Lived in a cold, harsh climate
100% human
Deformities proven to be from
severe arthritis and lack of
Vitamin D.
Lucy and the
Australopithecines
Challenges to Our Youth
Artistic conception
Australopithecus
africanus
What do you notice
about this picture?
Note contemplative
gaze, human hands
and use of tools.
Evolutionary Preconception
John Gurche, artist, National Geographic, March,
1996 p. 109.
“I wanted to get a human soul
into this ape-like face, to indicate
something about where he was
headed.”
What Was Found?
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Lucy discovered in 1974
About 40% of the fossil was found
Claimed to be 3.5 million years old
Claimed bipedal (walked upright)
Lucy and the Australopithecines
No similarity in appearance to humans
 Long arms are identical to chimpanzees
 Jaws are similar to chimpanzees
 Upper leg bone is similar to chimpanzees
 Lucy’s legs were very ape-like
 Brain size (400-500 cc) overlaps
chimpanzees
 Hands similar to pygmy chimpanzee
 Feet were long and curved
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Did Lucy Walk Upright
To determine if Lucy walked upright three
areas of anatomy were examined
1.The rib cage
2.The pelvis
3.Leg and foot bones
Rib Cage
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Ape ribs are conical shaped
Human ribs are barrel-like
Human
Circular barrel-like
Ape
Conical shape
Lucy’s Rib Cage
Brad Harrub (Ph.D. Anatomy and Neurobiology)
and Bert Thompson (Ph.D. Microbiology), The
Truth About Human Origins, 2003, p. 47.
“In Lucy’s case, her ribs are
conical, like those found in apes.”
Chimp vs. Human Pelvis
Chimp
Human
Lucy’s pelvis is “wrong”
because it is very ape-like
PBS Nova Series; In Search of Human Origins
episode one 1994 (Dr. Owen Lovejoy)
Laetoli Footprints
Footprints discovered in 1978 in Laetoli,
Tanzania. The footprints were dated at 3.5
million years old.
Who made these
footprints?
Ape and Human Footprints
Human
Ape
(Lucy)
Laetoli footprint
Footprints and Real Evidence
Russell Tuttle, “The Pattern of Little Feet,”
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Feb
1989, p. 316.
“Indistinguishable from those
of habitually barefoot Homo
sapiens.”
Anatomy of Australopithecines
David Catchpoole, Ph.D., “New evidence: Lucy was
a knuckle-walker”,
www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4256news5-5-2000.asp
“…anatomist Dr Charles Oxnard
has shown that the big toe
actually sticks out as in
chimpanzees.”
Summary
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Evolutionists ignore the scientific
evidence
Evolutionists create misleading
pictures in textbooks to support
evolution
Evolutionists practice censorship
The scientific evidence supports Lucy
was an extinct type of chimpanzee
If we all descended from
two people, where did all
the races come from?
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all
the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of
their habitation;
Eye Shapes
What Really
Happened?
Genesis 11:1, 4
Now the earth had one language
and one speech.
And they said, “come let us build
ourselves a city, and a tower
whose top is in the heavens; let
us make a name for ourselves,
lest we be scattered abroad over
the face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:8-9
So the Lord scattered them
abroad from there over the face
of the earth, and they ceased
building the city.
Therefore its name is called
Babel, because the Lord
confused the language of all the
earth;…
Tower of Babel
One Race
How Did Man Inhabit the World?
Where did Cain get his
wife?
Adam
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Adam was created perfect
About 2,500 years later the law was
given to Moses (Leviticus 18-20)
Abraham married his half sister (Gen
20:12)
Children inherit
two sets of genes
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
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All of God’s creation gives an
abundance of evidence that He has
created it, for which we praise Him.
“Know ye that the Lord He is God: It is
He that hath made us, and not we
ourselves; we are His people, and
the sheep of His pasture.” Ps. 100:3
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
We have seen that the universe
could not have created itself; that it
is impossible for stars to form
spontaneously by themselves. God
created them, by His mighty power!
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament showeth His
handiwork.” Ps 19:1
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WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
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From our studies concerning the
fossil record, embryology,
comparative anatomy, and the
indescribable complexity and
organization of living creatures, we
see that each one testifies to the
creative genius of God that passes all
understanding.
“But ask now the beasts, and they
shall teach thee; and the fowls of the
air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall
teach thee; And the fishes of the sea
shall declare unto thee.
Who knoweth not in all these that the
hand of the Lord hath wrought this?”
Job 12:7-9
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
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“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honor and power: For
Thou has created all things, and
for Thy pleasure they are and
were created.”
Revelation 4:11