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September 22, 1996 (Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The following is by Ken Hutcheson and is reprinted from The Baptist Challenge, September 1996 --
The "Piltdown Man" was "discovered" among other bones in Piltdown, near Sussex England, in 1912, and immediately proclaimed as the "missing link" between men and animals. Accredited scientists the world over dogmatically declared the bones to be half a million years old and dogmatic proof that man descended from animals. The bones were placed in the prestigious London Museum of Natural History and thousands came to see the unquestioned proof that evolution was a scientific fact. And there was the obvious implication that the Bible was not true, that man was not created in the image of God.
When humble Bible believers asked for "proof," they were ridiculed as ignorant and uneducated. A common statement by "educated" people for years has been, "I do not know of any educated person who rejects evolution and believes the Bible literally!" Lowly Bible believers were told that scientists were always right; that they believed only scientific "facts," and that scientists were truly objective and without prejudice! The faith of many Bible believers was shaken, including multitudes of students. Some became atheists or agnostics. Many so-called Christian scholars tried to "harmonize" the Bible and evolution. They reinterpreted creation references as parables or metaphorical descriptions of God's work in "language that man could understand." And these explanations always favored unbelieving scientists at the Bible's expense.
(Many Baptist colleges lost their testimony by following these unbelieving "scholars" and teaching evolution. They also rejected the King James Bible for the same "intellectual" reason.) All sorts of "scientific" explanations were offered to show that God used evolution as His method of creation, and that the Bible could not be taken literally. Such Christian "scholars" rejected faith, in their lust for the world's approval as "intellectuals"! But they can never be compared with Abraham (for example) who "staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God" (Rom. 4:20).
In 1953, as a young Air Force Chaplain, I was able to purchase the Encyclopedia Britannica, the world's most renowned authority on everything! What a thrill it was to read what the greatest authorities said about various subjects; until I got to evolution. Page after page of "scientific facts" showed that it was true, including several pages on the "Piltdown Man." He was a valuable link between man and animals. Although I had been taught this in high school and college, my faith was severely challenged by what appeared to be solid scientific facts. But I determined by God's grace to exercise faith and to believe the Bible anyway!
A few weeks after I bought the Britannica it was quietly announced that the Piltdown man was a fraud! An analysis was made to date the bones more precisely and it was discovered that the skull was human and the jaw was that of a monkey with the teeth filed to make them look human. Both creatures had recently died but the bones had been chemically treated to make them look old! Most news agencies ignored the report, except for Christian publications. Not once have leading evolutionists apologized for promoting a fraud to the world. Evolutionists are now trying to wipe the egg from their faces by saying that the whole thing was not a deliberate fabrication to prove evolution, but actually was an attempt to play a practical joke that "got out of hand!" Oh really?
Must we believe that from 1912 until 1953, over 40 years, all the "expert, highly educated, brilliant," evolutionists of the world who studied these bones were fooled by a practical joke? Are we expected to give up our faith in God's eternal and infallible Word and trust such men who call themselves "scientists," and yet cannot tell the difference between scientific facts and fakery? Over 500 students wrote their doctoral dissertations on the Piltdown Man and were awarded Ph.D. degrees from outstanding universities of the world! Doctors of fakery! These people who rejected the truth of God's Word are classic examples of God's description of educated fools, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator ... And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie ... and be damned!" (Rom. 1:22; 2 Thess. 2:11-12). But there's more!
In 1891 a Dutch army doctor, Eugene Dubois, stationed in Java, reported finding the "missing link" between man and animals! He discovered the top of a skull, three jaw teeth, and part of a thighbone. But he found them 70 feet apart, among many bones along a creek, over the period of a year! After completing his military service Dubois kept the bones in a trunk at home and sent pencil drawings to various evolutionary leaders and museums of the world who eagerly welcomed his "scientific" proof.
Calling his find the Java Ape-Man or "Pithecanthropus erectus" (the ape-man that walks upright), evolutionists swallowed his "proof" without question and arrogantly declared to the world that the Ape-Man was 750,000 years old! Many leading scientists eagerly went to his Holland home to see for themselves those amazing bones, only for Dubois to turn them away at his door.
Finally, after about 35 years, the scientific world demanded to see and evaluate the bones for themselves. Twenty-four European scientists met and studied the bones. Ten said they were the bones of an ape; seven said they came from a man; and seven said they were not the bones of a "missing link!" No less an authority than H.G. Wells, the agnostic historian known for his two-volume Outline of History, said they were the bones of an ape. Even Dubois himself finally admitted that the bones were probably from an ape. But the Java Ape-Man has been paraded in museums and high school and college text books the world over as the "missing link" between man and animals, proving evolution! Almighty God must have had these worldly wise men in mind when He inspired the Apostle Paul to tell Timothy to "...keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science, falsely so called!" (1 Tim. 6:20). Still more!
In 1922 a so-called scientist claimed to have found in Nebraska the true "missing link" between men and animals. Dubbed the "Nebraska Man," it was flaunted in text-books and museums of the world as being one million years old. Pictures and models were created, based on the "scientific" studies of experts. Just three years later, in the famous "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tenn., in 1925, this overwhelming evidence was introduced to prove evolution and show that "ignorant Bible-believers" were wrong! Great "scientific experts" were quoted to prove their case and all who were dumb enough to believe that God created man in His image were mocked and ridiculed!
When evidence of the "Nebraska Man" was demanded, the "great scientific experts" reluctantly admitted that their evidence consisted of ONE (1) tooth! But that's not all! After evolutionists and the mainstream media reporters bullied lowly Bible believers for years with their "scientific proof" the rest of that skeleton was found, and guess what? It was the skeleton of an extinct pig! What an example of "profane and vain babblings . .. science, falsely so called!"
The history of evolution is filled with fraud and lies, masquerading as science. "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived... Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Tim. 3:13, 7). Bible-hating evolutionists have completely taken over the public schools. In the 1925 "Monkey Trial" evolutionists pleaded that their view should be given equal time in the classroom along with creationism. Yet today, they are in complete control and utterly refuse equal time for creationism! It is evolution all the way; and without prayer and Bible reading, the schools have become jungles. Is it surprising that teens act like animals after being taught for years that they are nothing but animals?
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