Darwinists are carrying on a serious campaign of suggestion to per-suade a significant number of people to accept the idea that half-human, half-ape creatures lived at one time. Visual methods are an important part of this campaign; people may forget what they hear, but do remember what they see.
Evolutionists’ most widespread use of visual suggestion is to be seen in reconstructions from fossils. Pictures or models can be made of a creature from which only one bone fragment has been found. All the "ape-men" you have seen in newspapers, magazines and films are reconstructions.
The fossil record of human origins is fragmentary and incomplete, and any suppositions made on the basis of it are largely imaginary. That is, re-constructions claiming to describe the origins of human beings reflect only the imagination of the fossil expert, the illustrator, or the sculptor. For this reason, reconstructions that evolutionists make on the basis of the fossil record are designed
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solely to conform to the requirements of their own ideology. Someone look-ing at a depiction of a half-human, half-ape creature will get the impression that he is seeing something that really existed. Many museums display these models, and the public is led to believe that they have a close-up view of their true ancestors.
But these drawings and models have no
scien-The man pictured below uses his imagination to make artistic reconstructions. All the half-man and half-ape creatures you see in films, newspapers and magazines come from the imaginations of people like this. But no such intermediate creatures ever existed.
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Reconstructions based on bone remains can reveal only a creature's most general characteristics, since all the really distinctive morphological fea-tures of an animal are soft tissues which quickly vanish after death.
Therefore, due to the speculative nature of the interpretation of the soft tissues, the reconstructed drawings or models totally depend on the imag-ination of the person producing them. In fact, all such reconstructions
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Above: Reconstruction of an imaginary half-human, half-ape. The article below bears an interesting headline suggestive of evolution, but contains nothing but a lot of strange nonsense.
have been produced to convince observers that half-human, half-ape crea-tures once lived in the past.
A second method of visual effects is used to perpetuate the Darwinist spell and mislead the public: colorful magazines and striking page designs.
At the start of this chapter, we mentioned the great importance Darwinists give to appearances in order to portray a scientific aura. People are very in-fluenced by outer appearances and form their ideas on that basis. Therefore, Darwinists make the most of technology and all other means at their dis-posal to persuade the public.
On examination, this eye-catching picture is meaningless. Its only purpose is to
at-The media have exerted the greatest influence in getting the theory of evo-lution, with no scientific foundation, to be viewed as scientific reality. Various periodicals have kept the theory in the public eye by publishing regular arti-cles about it. Apart from the media, we can see mass "selling" of evolution in scientific journals, encyclopedias and even biology texts. Books and maga-zines are published with striking cov-ers, interesting page designs and color pictures, to attract attention with their visual effects and instill the sug-gestion that "evolution does exist."
From the point of view of content, these publications are often filled with complete misinformation but do contain striking layouts designed to mislead. Every detail has been considered in their formation. For example, the general appearance, cover design, page layout, colors used on the cover and the pages, the photographs and the style of language are all prepared with qualities that the reader will find attractive. The information and top-ics are presented in an attractive package to awaken trust in the reader.
Hiding behind this mask of striking beauty, the spell will combine with the other elements to produce the desired effect. The reader won’t suspect that such a magazine or book with its high-quality, authoritative appearance could propose a theory with no scientific foundation. For this reason alone, he won’t feel it necessary to examine the truth of the theory of evolution for himself.
Once again, however, we must point out that the rhetorical accounts of evolutionists decorated with hundreds of fragments of bone labeled in Latin, and volumes filled with photographs can be completely invalidated by one plain and concise explanation. For example, a dense three-volume book with a supposedly scientific appearance can be proven wrong by a few paragraphs with true scientific value. In fact, as said before, all the in-formation and accounts presented as scientific proofs in every evolutionist book are weak and insubstantial enough to be invalidated by a pamphlet you could fit into your pocket.