Lubenow - Bones of Contention : a Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils

This is the most complete and accurate critique of the fossils of the so-called ape-men. The myth of human evolution is completely demolished. Lubenow has made an invaluable contribution to scientific biblical creationism.

HENRY M. MORRIS, PRESIDENT, INSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH

On the question of biological, especially human, origins, Lubenow is not content to merely quote biblical theory (if I may use that word). Like a true scholar he researches in depth the literature in the scientific journals, sifting the evidence, searching out the areas open to interpretation.... He does his homework so thoroughly that he makes someone like me who would carry on a dialogue with him (as we did on creationism vs. Darwinism) also do his homework.... He is a pleasure to fence with intellectually.

MICHAEL CHARNEY, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY,
AFFILIATE PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Ever since my ninth-grade science teacher showed our class fossils of the four missing links, I have wished for a book like this. Bones of Contention is factual, scientific, and accurate and exposes the current frauds the evolutionists are using to deceive yet another generation of young people that human evolution is a fact. This book is well written, timely, and interesting to read. Lubenows revised edition is even better than the first.

TIM LAHAYE, COAUTHOR, THE LEFT BEHIND SERIES

Theres no better creationist researcher I know who has studied and critiqued mans supposed evolutionary ancestry more thoroughly than Professor Lubenow. After reading this masterful book, only a hardened heart would still accept human evolution and reject divine creation.

KEN HAM, PRESIDENT, ANSWERS IN GENESIS

Marvin L. Lubenow is professor of Bible, theology, and apologetics at Southern California Seminary in El Cajon, California. He has spent more than thirty-five years researching the human fossil issue and frequently speaks and writes to defend the creationist position.

1992, 2004 by Marvin L. Lubenow

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To Enid Arlene,
who deserves far more in life than a
husband intrigued with human fossils,

and

to Nettie Wilhelmena Gaulke Lubenow,
who dedicated me to Christ before I was born.
I was not aware of this until I made my own commitment to Christ.

CONTENTS

32. Reality in the Human Fossil Record

DEFINITIONS,
ILLUSTRATIONS,
AND CHARTS

DEFINITIONS

ILUSTRATIONS

CHARTS

I AM BOTH HUMBLED by and grateful for the reception of the original edition of Bones of Contention. The first edition has had eleven printings and has been translated into Spanish and Japanese.

The central theme of the first edition was that human evolution is false. The scientific and fossil evidence presented in that edition is as valid today as it was when it was first published. That edition also showed that the famous parade of small apelike forms gradually evolving into modern humans was a myth. Although evolutionists still insist on the truth of human evolution, they are finally beginning to admit that that famous parade was fiction. They are very quiet about that admission, however, and the general public is unaware of it.

Largely rewritten, this second edition carries on the tradition of the first. But it goes much further. It includes the latest developments in the field of human evolution and the latest fossil discoveries. It includes stunning developments by creationist scientists that reveal that the whole of evolution is dead.

This second edition differs significantly from the original edition in three areas. The first difference is the emphasis on human evolution as being intrinsically racist. In evolutions early days, scientific racism, which claimed white Europeans were superior to other races, was heralded as scientific truth. Now that we are aware of the evils of racism, the racism of evolution is being camouflaged. The model of choice in human evolution, the Out of Africa or African Eve Model, lacks solid fossil evidence. However, it is preferred because it better hides the racism present in all evolutionary models.

The second major difference in this revised edition is the presence of much archaeological and cultural evidence to support the true humanity of the Neandertals and Homo erectus. This inclusion was necessary because both of these groups of true humans are accused of being culture thin and hence not fully evolved humans. When evolutionists divide ancient humans into separate groups to establish a false evolutionary sequence, they demonstrate that evolution is actually a divider of humans.

Third, in this edition I have not hesitated to quote creationist scientists wherever appropriate. In the original edition, my plan was to demonstrate that human evolution was false using only evolutionist sources. While proving human evolution false was not difficult to do, the implication was that the book would have more authority if I used only evolutionist sources. The idea that evolutionists are scholars and creationists are just religious bigots could not be more misguided. It is becoming increasingly evident that the so-called Bible-Science War is not a science war but a philosophical war. Creation scientists are coming into their own and are proving to be far more objective and fair than their evolutionist counterparts. I honor my brothers and sisters in the Creation Research Society, the Institute for Creation Research, Answers in Genesis, and other creationist organizations for the outstanding job they are doing in bringing science out of the Dark Ages of paganism and back onto a solid foundation.

The first two sections of this edition, similar to the first chapters of the original edition but updated, are intended to give readers a background in the field of the human fossils (paleoanthropology) in order to better understand the rest of the book. Using the educational principle of going from the known to the unknown, the sections center on Java Man, perhaps the only fossil that most people know.

Although the fossil dates used in this book and on the charts speak in terms of millions of years, I do not accept those dates. I march to the tune of a different drummer, based on the data set forth in the early chapters of Genesis. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that even when the human fossils are placed on time charts according to evolutionists dates for these fossils, the results do not support human evolution but conflict with it.

I want to thank Dr. Kenneth Cumming, dean of the graduate school, Institute for Creation Research, for reading chapter 23 on Neandertal mtDNA and for offering valuable suggestions. I also want to thank one of my sweethearts, my granddaughter, Liz Laribee, for her drawings of Acheulean hand axes in chapter 12.