I was doing some research this morning and ran into a couple of other
factually wrong things passed off to an unsuspecting Christian laity as fact.
David Wilcox,
"After the Qafzeh people, there is no further evidence of AMH in
Europe or Asia until about 50,000 years ago in the Levant and in
Australia."~David L. Wilcox, "Adam, Where Are You? Changing
Paradigms in Paleoanthropology," Perspectives on Science and
Christian Faith , 48:2( June 1996), p. 93
Anatomically modern man is found At Liujing, China at 68,000 years ago. But
he writes for a Christian journal and couldn't be wrong.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
"Let's compare this chronology with the present archaeological
and anthropological data. Some time before about 35,000 years
ago, humans and civilization sprang up in the Mesopotamian flood
plain, centered in Babel. Roughly 33,000 years ago, humans began
to spread out over Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. About
12,000 years ago, large numbers of people began to settle in
North and South America. About 11,000 years ago, migration from
Siberia to the Americas ceased.
"My guess is that Peleg lived about 11,000 years ago. This
scenario and its dates remain tentative, of course."~Hugh Ross,
"The Broken Tie That Binds," Facts & Faith, 10:3, Third Quarter
1996, p. 6
There was no civilization in the sense that Ross means, 33,000 years ago.
Farming did not arise until around 9,000 years ago and the earliest evidence
is from the Turkish Highlands not the mesopotamian river valley. (see Jean
Guilaine, "The First Farmers of the Old World," in Jean
Guilaine, editor, Prehistory: The World of Early Man, (New York: Facts on
File,1986), p. 81) Secondly, the earliest modern men are dated at 120,000
years and are found in Africa at Klasies River Mouth Cave. But of course we
don't want to be picky about these things.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
A local well known creationist here in Dallas has published a book. He wrote:
"So there is no hard evidence that Peking Man is an ancestor
of Homo sapiens. some photographs of Peking skulls remain. The
skulls were broken into from the rear and most probably, the brains
served as food for true Homo sapiens. It would hardly be likely
that the ancient ancestors of man lived concurrently with man and
that his brains would be considered a delicacy of his great-
grandchildren, homo sapiens. As early as 1957, French
paleontologist, Dr. Marcellin Boule, Proposed that the people who
made the tools that killed Peking Man were true Homo sapiens."~Jobe
Martin, The Evolution of a Creationist,(Rockwall, Texas: Biblical
Discipleship Publishers, 1994), p. 94.
Fascinating, Dr. Boule was still publishing 15 years after his
death on July 4, 1942. and photographs are not the only remaining evidence of
Peking Man. Franz Weidenreich was able to make casts
of the fossils which still exist see Tattersall, The Fossil Trail
p. 67
This guy is a believer and would not tell us something wrong would he?
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
"Evolutionists insist that the duck-billed platypus is an
evolutionary link between mammals and birds."~Scott M. Huse, The
Collapse of Evolution, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1983), p.
109.
I have never seen this in print and Huse give no reference for this absurd
statement. Don't say this guy is out of the mainstream of christian thought.
Look at who published his book! And James Kennedy is apparently passing his
book out like candy.
What kind of credibility does this stuff give Christians among the atheists
and members of other religions? In my opinion mistakes like these show the
world that Christian scholarship is sloppy and haphazard. And when someone
says "Hey, that isn't so" we ignore it and choose to say that such things
distract from the real issue. And when we criticize the evolutionists, we
should take the log out of our own eye.
glenn
Foundation,Fall and Flood
http://members.gnn.com/GRMorton/dmd.htm