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    The part of the hipbones that we can feel just under our belt is called the iliac blade. Viewed from above, these blades are curved forward like the handles of a steering yolk on an airplane. The iliac blades of the ape, in contrast, project straight out to the side like the handlebars of a scooter. It is simply not possible to walk like a human with an apelike pelvis. On this feature alone one can easily distinguish apes from humans.
    Only three ways to make an “apeman”
    Knowing from Scripture that God didn’t create any apemen, there are only three ways for the evolutionist to create one.
Combine ape fossil bones with human fossil bones and declare the two to be one individual—a real “apeman.”
Emphasize certain humanlike qualities of fossilized ape bones, and with imagination upgrade apes to be more humanlike.
Emphasize certain apelike qualities of fossilized human bones, and with imagination downgrade humans to be more apelike.

    These three approaches account for
all
of the attempts by evolutionists to fill the unbridgeable gap between apes and men with fossil apemen.
    Combining Men and Apes
    The most famous example of an apeman proven to be a combination of ape and human bones is Piltdown man. In 1912, Charles Dawson, a medical doctor and an amateur paleontologist, discovered a mandible (lower jawbone) and part of a skull in a gravel pit near Piltdown, England. The jawbone was apelike but had teeth that showed wear similar to the human pattern. The skull, on the other hand, was very humanlike. These two specimens were combined to form what was called “Dawn man,” which was calculated to be 500,000 years old.
    The whole thing turned out to be an elaborate hoax. The skull was indeed human (about 500 years old), while the jaw was that of a modern female orangutan whose teeth had been obviously filed to crudely resemble the human wear pattern. Indeed, the long ape canine tooth was filed down so far that it exposed the pulp chamber, which was then filled in to hide the mischief. It would seem that any competent scientist examining this tooth would have concluded that it was either a hoax or the world’s first root canal! The success of this hoax for over 50 years, in spite of the careful scrutiny of the best authorities in the world, led the human evolutionist Sir Solly Zuckerman to declare: “It is doubtful if there is any science at all in the search for man’s fossil ancestry.” 1
    Making Man Out of Apes
    Many apemen are merely apes that evolutionists have attempted to upscale to fill the gap between apes and men. These include all the australopithecines, as well as a host of other extinct apes such as
Ardipithecus, Orrorin, Sahelanthropus
and
Kenyanthropus
. All have obviously ape skulls, ape pelvises and ape hands and feet. Nevertheless, australopithecines (especially
Australopithecus afarensis
) are often portrayed as having hands and feet identical to modern man, a ramrod-straight, upright posture and a human gait.
    The best-known specimen of A.
afarensis
is the fossil commonly known as “Lucy.” A life-like mannequin of “Lucy” in the
Living World
exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo shows a hairy humanlike female body with human hands and feet but with an obviously apelike head. The three-foot-tall Lucy stands erect in a deeply pensive pose with her right forefinger curled under her chin, her eyes gazing off into the distance as if she were contemplating the mind of Newton.
    Few visitors are aware that this is a gross misrepresentation of what is known about the fossil ape
Australopithecus afarensis
. These apes are known to be long-armed knuckle-walkers with locking wrists. Both the hands and feet of this creature are clearly apelike. Paleoanthropologists Jack Stern and Randall Sussman 2 have reported that the hands of this species are “surprisingly similar to hands found in the small end of the pygmy chimpanzee–common chimpanzee range.” They report that the feet, like the hands, are