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This massive work spawned waves of resistance and wonder amongst the scientific community, with over 900 pages of well-documented evidence suggesting that modern man did not evolve from ape man, but instead has co-existed with apes for millions of years!
A Challenge to
Darwinism
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Charles Darwin
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Just a dozen
years after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in
1859, growing numbers of scientists and other educated persons considered
it impossible, indeed laughable, to suppose that humans were anything
other than the modified descendants of an ancestral line of apelike
creatures.
According to
Darwinists, the first undisputed fossil evidence for life on earth goes
back about 2 billion years. They say the first apes and monkeys appeared
about 40-50 million years ago. The first ape-men (called Australopithecus)
appeared about 4 million years ago. These were followed by other apemen
called Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Neanderthal man. The first human
beings of modern type (Homo sapiens sapiens) appeared only 100,000 or
200,000 years ago. Civilization, according to modern scientists, is
less than 10,000 years old.
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Those who
blindly follow Darwin's ideas on human evolution do not see the pattern
of suppression inherent in scientific investigation. However, Michael
A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson of the Bhaktivedanta Institute investigated
hundreds of scientific reports showing that humans or near humans
were living millions of years ago in the Pliocene, Miocene, or earlier
periods.
This evidence
was not regarded as anomalous by the scientists who introduced it
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, since they were contemplating
theories of human origins that were compatible with this evidence.
Then, with the development of the modern theory that humans like ourselves
evolved within the past 200,000 years in the Late Pleistocene, this
evidence became highly unacceptable, and it vanished from sight.
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Depiction of
Australopithecus afarensis
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Forbidden
Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race presents
a representative sample of this anomalous evidence suggesting that
humans have been on the earth for millions of years, ,just as the
ancient Sanskrit writings of the Vedic literatures describe. The Vedic
histories inform us that humans have existed since the beginning of
the day of Brahma, about 2 billion years ago.
Cremo and
Thompson conclude that even the conventionally accepted evidence does
not offer a cohesive picture of the missing link; instead,
the multiplicity of proposed evolutionary linkages among the hominids
in Africa creates a very confusing scheme of human evolution. They
call for a drastic revision of the now-dominant assumptions about
human origins.
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