By Ada Brownell
(Excerpt from the book Imagine the Future You)
In the camp of atheism, we even have deception. Among
attempts to “prove” evolution, we have the Piltdown Man, which for forty years
was acclaimed as the “missing evolutionary link.” In 1952 it was proved to be a
hoax designed by Charles Dawson. The skull actually was the cranium of a man
and the jaw of an ape. The specimen was believed to be a million years old
before it was discovered to be a fraud. The teeth had been filed and stained to
suggest age.
Among other attempted deceptions was the Solid Muldoon,
which appeared to be a petrified giant with a tail about three inches long at
the base of the spine. The figure was dug up in 1877 near Pueblo, Colorado.
The Solid Muldoon was exhibited by W. A. Conant, the
“discoverer,” and George Hull, who planned to show the figure with P. T.
Barnum, the showman. But scientists were skeptical because Hull exhibited
another “petrified man” known as the Cardiff Giant. Hull later confessed he and
a stonecutter carved the “giant” out of stone and buried it for “discovery.”
Hull finally admitted that, in an attempt to make the Solid
Muldoon appear authentic, he made it from pulverized stone and bones, clay,
blood, plaster, and dried eggs. He pounded the “skin” with a needle-studded
mallet to give it “pores.” Then it was fired in a kiln for two weeks.
Now, even a person who rejects evolution must admit there
are few blatant deceptions such as these in the scientific realm today. But
that is not to say you can rest your future and eternal destiny on science.
IMAGINE NEW EVIDENCE
New evidence makes it necessary to continually revise the
theory of evolution. In fact, according to US
News and World Report, the theory is radically being revised.[1]
An article several years ago by William F. Allman says, “The
branches of the human family tree are being given a thorough shaking.”
One of the recent shakings, Allman said, concerns Lucy, a
primate thought by evolutionists to walk upright and represent the oldest known
human ancestor. But he said a number of distinct creatures, and possibly ten
different species of upright, large-brained ape-like creatures, have been
discovered, changing thought about Lucy’s species being the evolutionary link. Some
creationists discount Lucy entirely because pygmy chimps wander about upright
much of the time in rain forests today.
One of the most hotly debated issues among experts on human
origins concerns Neanderthals—stocky, primitive hominids thought to be a direct
ancestor of modern humans.
Researchers recently recovered DNA from a Neanderthal fossil
and decoded it to see how closely it resembles human DNA. The Neanderthal DNA
differed from human DNA in twenty-seven places, while human DNA differs from
person to person by an average of just eight variations in genetic sequence.[2]
The author of the article in US News and World Report concluded the DNA tests showed Neanderthal
men died out and were not the ancestors of modern humans.
The “prehistoric” models used by evolutionists also are
sometimes built on a very few bones and often rely on artists for fossil
reconstruction. For instance, Science
Magazine showed a half whale and a half land animal on its cover on April
22, 1983, and according to Dave Nutting of the Alpha Omega Institute in Grand
Junction, Colorado, the picture was reconstructed from teeth, a small fragment
of the jaw, and one bone at the back of the skull.[3]
[1]
William F. Allman, “A Family Legacy for Lucy,” US News & World Report, April 11, 1994, 55.
[2]
Laura Tangley, “Not So Close After All,” US
News and World Report, July 21, 1997, 9.
[3]
Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo, CO, Jan.
12, 1991, page 1B; and The Alpha Omega Institute, bulletin, Grand Junction, CO.
IMAGINE
THE FUTURE YOU
By
Ada Brownell
Will you be the person you dream of becoming, or the person
in your nightmares?
Ready or not, you are headed into your future.
Would you like to achieve your dreams of being
all you can be inside and out? Would you like to deposit good information in
your brain you can spend and invest in your future?
Read or listen to Ada Brownell’s book, Imagine
the Future You.
This author, who taught church youth for more than 30
years, spent a good hunk of her life as a journalist interviewing successful
people who achieved great things, but also met and wrote about those whose
lives had become so entangled with baggage they needed a miracle to turn them
loose. In addition, she has picked brains and studied how to believe in
yourself and things greater than you.
You need this book. E-book, paper and audible. Great narrator.
Mom: Our teenage daughter loves this book!
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