This document provides an overview of arguments against key aspects of evolutionary theory from a creationist perspective. It examines perceived problems with theories of common descent, the fossil record evidence for human evolution, and several historical examples of fossils that were misidentified or fabricated. Through quotes and images, it aims to cast doubt on the evolutionary relationships between modern species and their supposed ancestors like Homo habilis, Australopithecus, and others. The document advocates interpreting the scientific evidence through a biblical lens and defines faith in evolution as believing in links that are not seen in the fossil record.

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TATEMENTS of
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CRIPTURE
XHIBITED
XAMINED
XPLAINED
DUCATIONAL
DIFYING
VANGELICAL Presented
by
Dr Thomas J Kindell
Founder & President of Reasons for Faith Ministries, Inc.
“Be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is
within you” I Peter 3:15

3. Is ThereIs There
AA
In YourIn Your
Family Tree?Family Tree?

4. NO SEEDNO SEED

5. “It’s a shame that there are
precious few hard facts when it
comes to the origin of life... the
how part has everybody
stumped. Nobody knows how a
mixture of lifeless chemicals
spontaneously organized
themselves into the first living
cell.”
Paul Davies (Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie Univ.),
Born Lucky, New Scientist, Vol. 179 (2403):32, July 12, 2003

6. NO SEEDNO SEED
NO TRUNKNO TRUNK

7. ““TheThe extreme rarity of transitionalextreme rarity of transitional
formsforms in the fossil record persistsin the fossil record persists
as theas the trade secret oftrade secret of
paleontologypaleontology, the, the evolutionaryevolutionary
treestrees that adorn our textbooksthat adorn our textbooks
havehave data only at the tips anddata only at the tips and
nodesnodes of their branches; the restof their branches; the rest
isis inferenceinference, however reasonable,, however reasonable,
not the evidence of fossilsnot the evidence of fossils.”.”
Stephen J. Gould,Stephen J. Gould, Natural HistoryNatural History, Vol. 86, pgs 22, 30, Vol. 86, pgs 22, 30

8. NO SEEDNO SEED
NO TRUNKNO TRUNK
NO CONNECTINGNO CONNECTING
BRANCHESBRANCHES

9. NO CONNECTINGNO CONNECTING
BRANCHESBRANCHES
NO TRUNKNO TRUNK
NO SEEDNO SEED

10. NO CONNECTINGNO CONNECTING
BRANCHESBRANCHES
NO TRUNKNO TRUNK
NO SEEDNO SEED

11. NO CONNECTINGNO CONNECTING
BRANCHESBRANCHES
NO TRUNKNO TRUNK
NO SEEDNO SEED

12. “You are an
animal and
share a
common
heritage with
earthworms.”
Biology: Visualizing Life, Holt, 1994

13. 1. Darwinian evolution “impossible” to observe.
T. Dobzhansky
2. Mutation/Selection mechanism “effectively dead.”
S. Gould
3. No single “watertight” transitional fossil known.
C. Patterson

14. Nebraska Man
as depicted in the
Illustrated London
News
They did NOT have:
A complete skeleton
A complete skull
A complete jaw

15. All they did
have in its
entirety was:
A
SINGLE
MOLAR
TOOTH!

16. What were the
tactics used to
ascertain the details
of this sketch?
If you squeeze
a tooth long
enough and
hard enough
you can force
it to confess to
anything!

17. Full examination
results finally
published in
Scientific
American, Dec.
16, 1927.
Nebraska Man
turned out to be
neither an ape nor
a man. It actually
turned out to be:
A PIG!

18. Piltdown Man
was based on
fossil
specimens
found by
Charles
Dawson near
Piltdown,
England in
1912.

19. From 1912 to
1953 Piltdown
Man reigned
supreme in our
textbooks and
museums.
Scores of books,
pamphets and
articles were
published about
Piltdown Man.

20. Piltdown Man is
now recognized
as one of the
most
spectacular and
longest
enduring frauds
in the history of
modern
science.

21. Boxgrove
Man
Artist’s
Reconstructions
One shin bone

22. Eosimius
Ancestor of apes and humans?
Drawing courtesy of
Carnegie Museum of
Natural History

23. Eosimius: The Evidence
The size of
grains of
rice!
“…shy, nocturnal and
had large saucer-like
eyes and flitted about
the treetops.”
Time, March 27, 2000, p. 84

24. Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba

25. Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba
Hominid (apeman) status
claimed on the basis of
a single toe bone!
Hominid (apeman) status
claimed on the basis of
a single toe bone!

26. Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba
18 KM
away
in a
different
stratum!
18 KM
away
in a
different
stratum!

27. Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba
Spread over an area
15 KM long!
Was this history’s first suicide bomber?Was this history’s first suicide bomber?
Was he carrying a nuclear bomb?Was he carrying a nuclear bomb?

28. “Few sciences
produce such abundant
returns from so few
fragments
of fact as
palaeontology.”
Nigel I Lawkes, The Times (London), Sept 23, 1994

29. ““A five million year old piece ofA five million year old piece of
bone that wasbone that was thoughtthought to be theto be the
collarbone of a humanlike creaturecollarbone of a humanlike creature
is actually part of ais actually part of a dolphin ribdolphin rib......
The problem with a lot ofThe problem with a lot of
anthropologists is that they wantanthropologists is that they want
so much to find a hominid thatso much to find a hominid that anyany
scrap of bone becomes a hominidscrap of bone becomes a hominid
bone.bone.””
Dr. Tim White (anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley) asDr. Tim White (anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley) as
quoted by Ian Anderson inquoted by Ian Anderson in New ScientistNew Scientist, April 28, 1983, p. 199, April 28, 1983, p. 199

30. From Ape-Men by M.
Ape-men have
been deduced
from bones
which actually
belonged to:
ALLIGATOR
BEAR
DOLPHIN
DONKEY
ELEPHANT
HORSE

32. Photo: Fortean Picture Library

33. Photo: Fortean Picture Library
Not anNot an
Ape-ManApe-Man
Just aJust a
rubberrubber
dummydummy

35. 2121stst
CENTURY FRAUDCENTURY FRAUD
““A leading Japanese archaeologist,A leading Japanese archaeologist,
whom colleagues had nicknamed ‘god’swhom colleagues had nicknamed ‘god’s
hands’ for his uncanny ability to knowhands’ for his uncanny ability to know
just where to dig to find ancient relics,just where to dig to find ancient relics,
hashas publicly admitted to faking his mostpublicly admitted to faking his most
recent discoveriesrecent discoveries. Shinichi Fujimura. Shinichi Fujimura
was renowned for discovering Japan’swas renowned for discovering Japan’s
‘oldest’ sites of civilization,‘oldest’ sites of civilization, makingmaking
front-page news each timefront-page news each time he foundhe found
ever-older artifacts.”ever-older artifacts.”

36. ““But a Japanese newspaper hadBut a Japanese newspaper had
secretly photographed Fujimurasecretly photographed Fujimura
sneakingsneaking onto the site in the earlyonto the site in the early
morning,morning, digging holes and burying thedigging holes and burying the
stone implementsstone implements a few days before hea few days before he
and colleagues unearthed them andand colleagues unearthed them and
proudly announced the ‘discovery’ toproudly announced the ‘discovery’ to
the media. After exposure, Fujimurathe media. After exposure, Fujimura
apologized to the media, head bowed,apologized to the media, head bowed,
saying,saying, ‘I can’t imagine what made me‘I can’t imagine what made me
do it.’do it.’””
The West AustralianThe West Australian, 9 December 2000, p. 23, 9 December 2000, p. 23

37. This reconstruction
indicates nothing but
an ape
This reconstruction
appears to be a
hominid

38. “Everybody
knows fossils
are fickle;
bones will sing
any song you
want to hear.”
Shreeve, J., Argument over a woman, Discover
11(8):58, 1996

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41. From Origins by Richard Leakey

42. HOMINIDAE
RAMAPITHECUS
AUSTRALOPITHECUS
HOMO ERECTUS
HOMO SAPIENS
Neandertal Man
Cromagnon Man
Modern Man
30 my
10 – 14 my
2 – 3 my
.5 – 1 my
100,000 yrs

43. FROM
THIS...

44. TO
THIS!

45. CHIMPRAMAPITHECUSORANGUTAN

47. From Origins by Richard Leakey
Several Million YearsSeveral Million Years
No common
ancestor
Just an
OrangutanX

50. “The skull form of all austral-
opithecines is extremely ape-
like...the australopithecines
show too many specialized
and ape-like characteristics
to be either the direct
ancestor of man or of the line
that led to man.”
A. Montague, Man: His Firs t Million Years , World Publishers, p. 77
“The skull form of all austral-
opithecines is extremely ape-
like...the australopithecines
show too many specialized
and ape-like characteristics
to be either the direct
ancestor of man or of the line
that led to man.”
A. Montague, Man: His First Million Years , World Publishers, p. 77

51. “But I myself remain totally
unpersuaded. Almost always when I
have tried to check the anatomical
claims on which the status of
Australopithicus is based, I have ended
in failure...the Australopithecine skull is
in fact so overwhelmingly simian as
opposed to human that the contrary
proposition could be equated to an
assertion that black is white.”
S. Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory Tower, Taplinger Pub.
Co., NY, pg. 77

56. AUSTRALOPITHICUS afarensis
Skull of Lucy’s species

57. Chimp Lucy Human

58. (CEN Tech. J., Vol. 10, No. 2, 1996)

59. Gorilla
Lucy
Human

60. “…“…the australopithecines knownthe australopithecines known
over the last several decades…over the last several decades…areare
now irrevocably removednow irrevocably removed from afrom a
place in the evolution ofplace in the evolution of humanhuman
bipedalismbipedalism, possibly from a place in a, possibly from a place in a
group any closer to humans than togroup any closer to humans than to
African apes andAfrican apes and certainly from anycertainly from any
place in the direct human lineage.place in the direct human lineage.””
Dr. Charles Oxnard,Dr. Charles Oxnard, The Order of ManThe Order of Man, Yale University Press, pg. 332., Yale University Press, pg. 332.

61. Long curved fingers
Locking wrists
Wrong talus angle
Ape-like foot

63. Bias in
Reconstructions
“I wanted to get a human
soul into this ape-like face,
to indicate something about
where she was headed.”
John Gurche, sculptor, National Geographic 189(3):96-117, March 1996

64. Homo habilis (handy man)
Louis Leakey
(1903-1972) Now widely
considered
an “invalid
taxon”
(a mixture of
more than
one fossil
type)
Nature 377:111, 1995

65. Homo habilis (handy man)
Louis Leakey
(1903-1972)
“…if there
weren’t a
Homo habilis
we would
have to
invent one.”
Milford Wolpoff,
American Journal of
Physical
Anthropolgy 89(3),
Nov. 1992, p, 402

68. 700 cc700 cc
1400 cc1400 cc
2200 cc2200 cc
Homo Erectus
1000 cc

72. ““Detailed comparison ofDetailed comparison of
Neanderthal skeletal remains withNeanderthal skeletal remains with
those of modern humans havethose of modern humans have
shown that there isshown that there is nothing innothing in
Neanderthal anatomyNeanderthal anatomy thatthat
conclusively indicates locomotor,conclusively indicates locomotor,
manipulative, intellectual, ormanipulative, intellectual, or
linguistic abilitieslinguistic abilities inferiorinferior to thoseto those
of modern humans.”of modern humans.”
Erik Trinkaus, “Hard Times Among the Neanderthals,”Erik Trinkaus, “Hard Times Among the Neanderthals,”
Natural HistoryNatural History, 87:10, p. 58, 87:10, p. 58

73. Neandertal
Model
endorsed by
Erik Trinkaus
Trinkaus is one of
the world’s greatest
authorities on
Neandertals

75. ALL MENALL APES

76. ““For example, no scientist couldFor example, no scientist could
logically dispute the propositionlogically dispute the proposition
that man, without having beenthat man, without having been
involved in any act of divineinvolved in any act of divine
creation, evolved from some ape-creation, evolved from some ape-
like creature in a very short spacelike creature in a very short space
of time – speaking in geologicalof time – speaking in geological
terms –terms – withoutwithout leavingleaving anyany fossilfossil
tracestraces of theof the stepssteps of theof the
transformation.”transformation.”
S. Zuckerman,S. Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory TowerBeyond the Ivory Tower, Taplinger Publishing Co., p. 77, Taplinger Publishing Co., p. 77

77. BIBLICAL DEFINITION
OF FAITH
Now faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
Now faith is the substance of fossils
hoped for, the evidence of links not
seen.
EVOLUTIONIST’S DEFINITION
OF FAITH

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