Creation vs. Evolution

• Is there a God?

• Is there purpose?

• Is there faith?

• Is there evidence?

Bones of Contention

Marvin Lubenow

Michael CharneyOn the question of biological,

especially human origins, Lubenow is not content to merely quote biblical

theory. Like a true scholar he researches in depth the literature in the scientific journals, sifting the evidence,

searching out the areas open to interpretation.

Michael Charney

He does his homework so thoroughly that he makes someone like me who would carry on a dialogue with him

also do his homework. He is a pleasure to fence with intellectually.

Bones of Contentionp. 7

The human fossil record is strongly supportive of the concept of Special

Creation. On the other hand, the fossil evidence is so contrary to human

evolution as to effectively falsify the idea that humans evolved.

Bones of Contentionp. 7

This book is the fruit of twenty-five years of research. Because its

conclusions are different from what is almost universally believed, it is

heavily documented from the most recent scientific literature.

Bones of Contentionp. 9

It is impossible to deal with the subject of human fossils without also dealing

with the subject of the radiometric dating methods... The appendix of this book is a case study of the torutred ten-year attempt to date the famous fossil KNM-ER 1470 discovered in 1972…

Bones of Contentionp. 9

This case study clearly reveals that the radiometric dating methods are not

independent confirmations of evolution and an old earth… These dating

methods are, instead, “faithful and obedient servants” of evolution.

Bones of Contentionp. 178

The facts of the big picture are that first, fossils that are indistinguishable from modern humans can be traced all the way back to 4.5 m.y.a, according to

the evolution time scale.

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Second, Homo erectus demonstrates a morphological consistency throughout its two-million-year history. The fossil record does not show erectus evolving from something else or evolving into

something else.

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Third, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, Neandertal, archaic Homo

sapiens, and Homo erectus all lived as contemporaries at one time or another.

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Fourth, all of the fossils ascribed to the Homo habilis category are

contemproary with Homo erectus. This, Homo habilis not only did not

evolve into Homo erectus, it could not have evolved into Homo erectus.

Bones of Contentionp. 182

David Pilbeam: “There is no clear-cut and inexorable pathway from ape to

human being.”

Bones of Contentionp. 182

David Pilbeam on whether man evolved from gibbons, chimp, or

orangutans: “The fossil record has been elastic enough, the expectations

sufficiently robust, to accommodate almost any story.”

Bones of Contentionp. 182

Mary Leakey on the constructing of evolutionary family trees: “…in the

present state of our knowledge, I do not believe it is possible to fit the known hominid fossils into a reliable plan.”

Bones of Contentionp. 182

Robert Martin: “So one is forced to conclude that there is no clear-cut

scientific picture of human evolution.”

Bones of Contentionp. 8

The fossil humans with a somewhat different skull shape (morphologically) are actually products of the post-Flood

Ice Age. The Ice Age, in turn, is inseperably linked in terms of cause and effect to the world-wide Genesis

Flood.

Bones of Contentionp. 8

The scientific community, rejecting the Genesis Flood, has been singularly

unsuccessful in developing an adequate explanation for the Ice Age.

Luke 17:27

People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah

entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built

an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness

that comes by faith.

2 Peter 2:5

if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected

Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;

2 Peter 3:6

By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and

destroyed.