None of the evidence cited to support evolution has stood the test of time in the last 150 years. This fascinating fact has recently become a subject of Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells, in which the 10 most frequently cited evidences for evolution are debunked one by one. Most of these evidences are still misleadingly quoted in almost every textbook published on evolution today as ‘proof,’ of evolution. The result is as I state on the main page, I am not aware of any evidence whatsoever for Darwinian macroevolution. When one removes the frauds, misconceptions, and liars of the last century, literally no evidence remains.

In a recent debate between Wells and one of the world's leading evolutionists, the only evidence offered for evolution seemed to be convergent evolution. But as again stated on my main page, this is evidence for common descent, it does not talk to us about the mechanism through which this common descent might have happened. Other examples were simply population genetics at work. So literally, even the world's greatest experts on evolution, do not seem able to cite any evidence whatsoever for their personal religious beliefs, sorry, scientific principals. I continue to challenge someone to email me convincing proof of macroevolution. So far all I get is four letter insults, which tells you a) what kind of nasty self centered people evolutionists really are, and b) how desperate they all are. The following is just a very small introductory taster to the shattered illusions of evolutionists in the last 150 years.

Piltdown Man Fiasco

Quite amusing with hindsight, but touted as proof of evolution for many years and as a 'missing link.' It was actually just the jaw of an orang-utan mixed with a human skull by a practical joker. Of course, evolutionists fell for this simple fraud hook, line, and sinker. In the infamous 1925 Tennessee trail when a teacher was ridiculously put on trial for teaching Darwinism, Piltdown man was brought into a hushed courtroom as proof of evolution. Also displayed was a fossil tooth from Nebraska Man, that turned out to be not from an extinct man, but a pig. Evolutionists could not tell the difference apparently.

Mysterious Vanishing 'Vestigial,' Organs

These strange things used to prove evolution. In 1895 the book The structure of Man was published by Ernst Weidersheim listing 86 human organs with allegedly no function ( a recent edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica says there are 'more than 100,' vestigial organs.) However, S.R. Scadding has examined these claims. His conclusion was 'Weidersheim was largely in error in compiling his long list of vestigial organs. Most of them have at least a minor function at some point in life.'(Do vestigial organs provide evidence for evolution? In Evolutionary Theory, Vol 5, pp.173-6) As is pointed out even the supposedly useless appendix may have its uses, and what few vestigial organs remained may well only be 'vestigial,' because too are too stupid to have figured out what they do yet. Tricks such as the thymus gland could have caught us out. Removing it in adults has no effect, so the automatic presumption was vestigial. Now we know it plays a vital role in early infancy to the development of the immune system. Another favorite of mine in ear lobes. These things used to be ancient fatty vestigial tissues. Now due to their sensitivity and role in arousal and love making, we are told they are an extremely recent evolutionary innovations. Funny how vestigial 'facts,' keep changing from one generation of biologists to the next.

I picked the following up from another web site.

Evolutionists consider the coccyx or tail bone the remnant of our evolutionary ancestor's tail. The tail bone (coccyx) used to be removed when people injured them, and developed coccydynia (painful coccyx). Dr. Robert Franks says that he told his suffering patients to resist removal of the coccyx, if ever suggested. The tailbone has some important functions, starting with the role it plays in enabling us to sit. Ask someone who has had his tail bone removed what it's like to sit. That should have been an obvious function to the unprejudiced observer. For instance, if you came from Mars or Alpha Centauri and saw a pair of boots, you might conclude they were useless objects. Nancy Sinatra thought they were for walking. Actually, the feet and legs do the walking; the boots facilitate this activity. Various muscles attached to the tail bone are important for facilitating bowel and labor movements, supporting internal organs, and keeping the anus closed. Concerning the coccyx, Evan Shute wrote:

"...Take it away and patients complain; indeed the operation for its removal has time and again fallen into disrepute, only to be revived by some naive surgeon who really believes what biologists have told him about this useless 'rudiment.'" [Shute]

Cora Reno says that the coccyx is merely the terminal portion of the backbone. "After all, it does have to have an end!" [Reno] Bergman and Howe go into much more detail on the coccyx in their book.

Ernest Haeckel, Master of Doubletalk and Fantasy

This wonderful man has earned two mentions in my frauds file. He was certainly blessed with an active imagination. On the right of this line you should be able to see the first phylogenetic tree which he drew up in 1866. Note the think trunk at the bottom, and the strong branches leading off. Its all very convincing isn't it? ...Right up to the point you learn the whole digram was a flight of fantasy. More modern 'trees of life,' are generally more honest, they put dotted lines all over the place because we lack the intermediate forms to make the links between species anything more than hypothetical. Even worse, not even modern genetic analysis of organisms has been able to establish that any species is intermediate between any other!

Another wonderful idea of Ernest's was that the developing embryo passes through ( or recapitulates ) stages in evolution of its entire phylum ( ancestors), which means the embryo starts off as a marine micro-organism, then develops gills, which then turn into lungs etc etc. In a wonderful bit of doubletalk he summed it up in his 1876 book General Morphology of Organisms, that 'Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny.' Unfortunately, there is no evidence for this theory. Attempts to claim folds in the skin of embryos are gills have been made, and have won astonishing acceptance among gullible evolutionists, but research has revealed them to be the structures that become the lower jaw, tongue and other organs of the throat. That has not stopped the gill story being repeated in generations of textbooks and countless university lectures however. Astonishingly, its only in the 1990s that it seems this particular evolutionary fallacy of recapitulation has finally been nailed, and removed from all newly published textbooks. Only 3 years ago (1995) I saw a nurse on British TV faithfully retelling a variation on this delightful evolutionary story to millions as if it was a fact!

The Coelocanthus, the Intermediate Fossil That Never Was

After studying fossil remains, with a bit of educated guesswork, evolutionists concluded with unusual unanimity that it lived 350 million years ago in the Devonian period, when it became extinct. But not before flapping onto the estuarine mud flats, and with the aid of its intermediate limbs, giving birth to a new line of organisms able to exploit the land. It was hailed as the father of all terrestrial life. This discovery of an important missing link was one of Fleet Street's earliest scientific scoops. The British Museum of Natural History put on a special exhibition, school kinds the length and bredth of the land came to learn about this important discovery which proved Darwin's theory. Unfortunately, at this point in 1938 off east London on the African coast some fishermen caught a Coelocanth. Examination of this real specimen, demonstrated the academic reconstructions of the intermediate limbs to have been, as usual, just wishful thinking by evolutionists. Its fins were not substantially more intermediate than those of pet goldfishes. The habitat of the Coelocanth is also 200 metres plus in the ocean. Which means when brought up to the surface it explodes due to decompression. Another good reason why this could not be the intermediate creature that was the father of all terrestrial life. Furthermore, 1986 camera tracking of the Coelocanth by Hans Fricke of the Max Planck Institute for Animal behaviour, revealed the Coelocanth does not even stroll along the sea bed with its fins as supposed, but swims like any other fish. So remember, had not a living Coelocanth been caught, even today we would probably be taught this was a critical intermediate fossil that proves evolution. One wonders what other statements made by evolutionists today would turn out to be erroneous if we had live specimens to examine....

Archaeopteryx - Inexplicably Promoted to This Day As an 'Intermediate Fossil'

Recently on a heavily promoted evolution weekend ( March 1998 ) a BBC documentary touted this fossil in a context that suggested it was one of many intermediate fossils that have come to light which prove evolution. So what is the reality behind this intermediate fossil that proves evoltuion beyond all possible scientifc doubt ( perhaps you can see this one coming by now).

Archæopteryx is one of the most widely-known so-called transitional forms among the very few that evolutionists still defend. Archæopteryx, the ancestor of modern birds according to the evolutionists, lived 150 million years ago. The theory holds that some of the small-scaled dinosaurs named Velociraptor or Dromeosaur evolved by acquiring wings and then starting to fly. Thus, Archæopteryx is assumed to be a transitional form that diverted from its dinosaur ancestors and started to fly for the first time. However, the latest studies of Archæopteryx fossils indicate that this creature is absolutely not a transitional form, but a bird species bearing some characteristics distinct from today’s birds.

The thesis that Archæopteryx was a "half-bird" that could not fly perfectly was popular among evolutionist circles until not long ago. The absence of a sternum, that is the chest bone, in this creature, or at least its not being the way it is in flying birds, was held up as the most important evidence that this bird could not fly properly. (The chest bone is a bone found under the thorax on which the muscles required for flight are fastened. In our day, this chest bone is observed in all flying and non-flying birds, and even in bats-a flying mammal which belongs to a very different family.)

However, the seventh Archæopteryx fossil found in 1992 caused great astonishment among evolutionists. The reason was that in this recently found Archæopteryx fossil, the chest bone that was assumed to be long missing by the evolutionists actually existed. This recently-found fossil was described in Nature magazine as follows:

The recently discovered seventh specimen of the Archaeopteryx preserves a partial rectangular sternum long suspected but never previously documented. This attests to its strong flight muscles. This discovery invalidated the mainstay of the claims that Archæopteryx was a half-bird that could not fly properly.

On the other hand, the structure of the bird’s feathers became one of the most important pieces of evidence verifying that Archæopteryx was a flying bird in the real sense. The asymmetric feather structure of Archæopteryx is indistinguishable from modern birds indicated that the animal could fly perfectly. As the famous paleontologist Carl O. Dunbar states, "because of its feathers Archæopteryx is distinctly to be classed as a bird"

Another fact that was revealed by the structure of Archæopteryx’s feathers was the bird’s warm-blooded metabolism. As it is known, reptiles and dinosaurs are cold-blooded animals that are affected by environmental temperatures rather than regulating their body heat independently. A very important function of the feathers in a bird is the maintenance of the animal’s body heat. The fact that Archæopteryx had feathers showed that it was a real, warm-blooded bird that needed to maintain its body heat in contrast to the dinosaurs.

The Infamous Horse Evolution Digram

In 1879, an American fossil expert, O. C. Marsh, and famous evolutionist Thomas Huxley, collaborated for a public lecture which Huxley gave in New York. Marsh produced a schematic diagram which attempted to show the so-called development of the front and back feet, the legs, and the teeth of the various stages of the horse. He published his evolutionary diagram in the American Journal of Science in 1879, and it found its way into many other publications and textbooks. The scheme hasn't changed. It shows a beautiful gradational sequence in "the evolution" of the horse, unbroken by any abrupt changes. This is what generations of kids have seen in school textbooks and encyclopaedias. However, as usual, we find a detailed examination of how this proof of evolution was derived proves rather interesting. For starters, fossil remains of modern horses have been found next to the earlier species they were alleged to have evoloved from. And secondly there there is no one site in the world where the evolutionary succession of the horse can be seen. Rather, the fossil fragments have been gathered from several continents on the assumption of evolutionary progress, and then used to support the assumption. That sort of approach to 'proof,' will get you fail marks every time on any reasonably advanced mathematical course. And the fossil sequence is not quite as complete as the diagram suggests. One can also suggest that the genetic distance between the earliest horse and modern horses is not so great, since modern horses someties give birth to offspring with some of the alleged primitive feature such as 3 toes. i.e. its just microevoution / population genetics. And finally, lets assume for a moment the diagram is genuine. If if takes several generations for horses to show not much devlopment apart from size, surely this sequence proves there is something very wrong indeed with the fossil record with all the huge gaping holes in it? Surely it proves we should have dozens or even hundreds of intermediate in the fossil record to mark the transition between species. Either way you chose to see it, genuine or fraud, I do not think horse evolution is particularly good news for evolutionists.

Ota Benga: The African Native Put Into a Cage

After Darwin advanced the claim with his book The Descent of Man that man evolved from ape-like living beings, he started to seek fossils to support this contention. However, some evolutionists believed that "half-man half-ape" creatures were to be found not only in the fossil record, but also alive in various parts of the world. In the early 20th century, these pursuits for "living transitional links" led to unfortunate incidents, one of the cruellest of which is the story of a Pygmy by the name of Ota Benga. Ota Benga was captured in 1904 by an evolutionist researcher in the Congo. In his own tongue, his name meant "friend". He had a wife and two children. Chained and caged like an animal, he was taken to the USA where evolutionist scientists displayed him to the public in the St Louis World Fair along with other ape species and introduced him as "the closest transitional link to man". Two years later, they took him to the Bronx Zoo in New York and there they exhibited him under the denomination of "ancient ancestors of man" along with a few chimpanzees, a gorilla named Dinah, and an orang-utan called Dohung. Dr William T. Hornaday, the zoo’s evolutionist director gave long speeches on how proud he was to have this exceptional "transitional form" in his zoo and treated caged Ota Benga as if he were an ordinary animal. Unable to bear the treatment he was subjected to, Ota Benga eventually committed suicide.

Neanderthal Man

Recent DNA studies indicate Neanderthal man is about half way between modern man and chimps. The problem is that as our nearest ancestor, there is absolutely no clue how Neanderthal turned into modern man. To help you out, I will list the only vaguely plausible explanations for how the transitition happened. You can pick the one you find least ridiculous.

1. God did it
2. Aliens did it
3. Bacteria from outer space did it
4. A collective act of consciousness did it
5. We are aliens from a collapsing civilisation on Mars

The Lies Go On To This Very Day

I am now going to quote from the talk.origins transitional faq:-

Archeopteryx has been called the single most important natural history specimen ever found, "comparable to the Rosetta Stone" (Alan Feduccia, in "The Age Of Birds"). O.C. Marsh's groundbreaking study of the evolution of horses was another dramatic example of transitional fossils, this time demonstrating a whole sequence of transitions within a single family. Within a few decades after the Origin, these and other fossils, along with many other sources of evidence (such as developmental biology and biogeography) had convinced the majority of educated people that evolution had occurred, and that organisms are related to each other by common descent. Since then, many more transitional fossils have been found, as sketched out in this FAQ. Typically, the only people who still demand to see transitional fossils are either unaware of the currently known fossil record (often due to the shoddy and very dated arguments presented in current creationist articles) or are unwilling to believe it for some reason.

So there you have it. Evolutionists have lied all along, and just go on lying year in year out to try and force their religion onto the public. And for anyone who says I am all negative, here is my alternative theory. Do keep in mind I have only scratched the surface in this file - one can, and one man has, written a whole book about evolutionary lies. When will the lies end? No time soon by the looks of things....... Still the faq has one thing right.... 'are unwilling to believe it,' is an entirely accurate statement about the problems evolutionists have dealing with empirical fossil record fact. They just will not accept the factual evidence of the fossil record falsifies their theory, and keep inventing imaginary 'intermediate fossils.' One might be tempted to say that all evolutionists are by nature delusional schzophrenics.

Oh and one final laugh to bring this file up to date. Last year (2000) I watched a program on the Discovery channel about intermediate forms and the rise of land based life. The current creation myth here now goes that land animals evoloved not in mud flats ( nope, they have changed their minds about that one, wonder how long until the text books change? ) but in swamps. The highlight of the show was being shown a single jaw bone of the magical intermediate swamp creature that is the ancestor of all modern life. That's right, the proof was one half of a jaw........ wow wee. The man presenting it said if any kind of creationist theory ever won acceptance we would be going back to the 'dark ages,' of superstition and pseudo-science.... riiiiiight... and convincing yourself you have found the ancestor of all land life based upon a small jaw fragment is sane............. obviously staring at fossils all day rots your brain or something.

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