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Pikes Peak Creation Fellowship
Next Meeting: August 10, 2019, 1 PM
Meeting Location: Faith EFC
Speaker: Mr. Rich Cloud
Subject: Buried Clues (Fossils)

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Paleontology
Study of fossils
Sudden appearance of life in the fossil record
Transitional form (transitional fossil)
An organism that has features intermediate of its ancestors and progeny
List of known transitional forms

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Table of All Known Transitional Forms

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Alleged transitional forms
Archaeopteryx

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Alleged transitional forms
Archaeopteryx
Reptilian (dinosaurian) characteristics
Teeth
Long tail
Claws on its wings
Bird characteristics
Furcula
Perching feet
Feathers

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Feathered dinosaurs?
Archaeoraptor liaoningensis

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Sinosauropteryx

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Other “feathered” dinosaurs
No other dinosaurs are found with “feathers”
Two feathered dinosaur types are now classified as flightless birds

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Human Evolution?
Piltdown Man
“Discovered” by Charles Dawson in
Jawbone with teeth and part of a skull
Called a “fake” by a Creationist in 1925
Disproved in 1953 by dating tests
Later determined to have been a hoax or a practical joke!

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Nebraska Man
Discovered by Henry Osborn in 1922
A single tooth found

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Nebraska Man
Discovered by Henry Osborn in 1922
A single tooth found
Used as proof of human evolution in 1925 correspondence prior to Scopes Trial
A few more teeth were found in 1927 – They were attached to the jawbone this time

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Ramapithecus
Discovered by G. E. Lewis in 1932
Partial jawbones and teeth
Dated at 8,000,000 years old
Originally thought to walk upright due to how the jaws were reconstructed
Complete jawbone later found and proved the original reconstruction was incorrect
Now considered a “false start” to the human race

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Australopithecus
Discovered by Raymond Dart in 1924
Most complete skeleton is Lucy (40% complete)

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Australopithecus
Discovered by Raymond Dart in 1924
Most complete skeleton is Lucy (40% complete)
Allegedly walked upright
A multivariate analysis on Lucy proved that Lucy did NOT walk upright
Wrist morphology matches that of apes
Ear canal CAT scans showed that they did not habitually walk upright
Most likely just a variety of Galada Baboon

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Java Man (Homo erectus)
Discovered by Eugene Dubois in
Femur and skullcap found 50 feet apart
Wadjak skulls (human) found in the same layer but not disclosed until 1922
French scientists said that the skullcap was very similar to a gibbon’s skull and that the femur was completely human
Dubois later stated that Java Man was nothing but a large gibbon
Dated at 30,000 years old in 1996
Rock layer above was dated at 550,000 years old in 2010

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Peking Man (Homo erectus)
Discovered by Davidson Black in 1921
30 skulls, 11 lower jaws and 147 teeth
French scientists said that Peking Man was nothing but a large primate
All evidence (except for 2 teeth) disappeared in the 1940s

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Neanderthal Man
Discovered in 1856
Originally classified as “Homo neanderthalensis” due to some ape-like features
Now classified as “Homo sapiens neanderthalensis”
Cranial capacity of Neanderthal Man exceeds modern man’s

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Encyclopedia Britannica Definition
Neanderthal, (Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis), member of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000 years ago … and were replaced or assimilated by early modern human populations (Homo sapiens) between 35,000 and perhaps 24,000 years ago.

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Lord Zuckerman
We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed biological science, like ... the interpretation of man’s fossil history, where to the faithful anything is possible – and where the ardent believer is sometimes able to believe several contradictory things at the same time.

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Conclusion
Goo did NOT turn into You by way of the Zoo
The reason why transitional forms are called “missing links” is:
They are still missing!

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