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Challenge to
Darwinism
Charles Darwin
Just a dozen years after
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, growing
numbers of scientists and other educated persons considered it
impossible, indeed laughable, to suppose that humans were anything
other than the
 modified descendants of an ancestral line of apelike
creatures.
According to Darwinists, the first undisputed fossil evidence for
life on earth goes back about 2 billion years. They say the first
apes and monkeys appeared about 40-50 million years ago. The first
ape-men (called Australopithecus) appeared about 4 million years
ago. These were followed by other ape-men called Homo habilis,
Homo
erectus, and Neanderthal man.
 The first human beings of modern type
(Homo sapiens sapiens) appeared only 100,000 or 200,000 years ago.
Civilization, according to modern scientists, is less than 10,000
years old.
Those who blindly follow Darwin's ideas on human evolution do not
see the pattern of suppression inherent in scientific investigation.
However, Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson of the
Bhaktivedanta Institute investigated hundreds of scientific reports
showing that humans or near humans were living millions of years ago
in the Pliocene, Miocene, or earlier periods.
This evidence was not regarded as anomalous by the scientists who
introduced it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, since they
were contemplating theories of human origins that were compatible
with this evidence. Then, with the development of the modern theory
that humans like ourselves evolved within the past 200,000 years in
the Late Pleistocene, this evidence became highly unacceptable, and
it vanished from sight.
Depiction of Australopithecus afarensis
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race presents
a representative sample of this anomalous evidence suggesting that
humans have been on the earth for millions of years, ,just as the
ancient Sanskrit writings of the Vedic literatures describe. The
Vedic histories inform us that humans have existed since the
beginning of the day of Brahma, about 2 billion years ago.
Cremo and Thompson conclude that even the conventionally accepted
evidence does not offer a cohesive picture of the missing link;
instead, the multiplicity of proposed evolutionary linkages among
the hominids in Africa creates a very confusing scheme of human
evolution. They call for a drastic revision of the now-dominant
assumptions about human origins.
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