Bones of contention : a creationist assessment of human fossils / Marvin L. Lubenow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubenow, Marvin L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fossil hominids.

Creationism.

Physical Description:

400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, [2004]

Summary:

While evolutionists point to every new discovery of humanlike fossils as further evidence to support the theory that people evolved from apelike creatures, Marvin L. Lubenow contends that the fossils do more to disprove evolutionary theory than otherwise. In Bones of Contention, Lubenow offers readers of all backgrounds a readable argument for the creationist view of the origins of humankind that addresses all angles of the issue. In this new edition, Lubenow has thoroughly updated and revised his original material to reflect a dozen years of evolutionist theory and modern paleoanthropology. Scholars and laypeople alike will find solid answers, grounded in research, to all of their tough questions.

Contents:

Section I A Really Weird Science

Introduction to Section I: The Assignment 15

1 "Show Me Your Fossils; I'll Show You Mine" 21

2 A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups 31

3 Dead Reckoning 44

4 Monkey Business in the Family Tree 49

5 Looks Aren't Everything 60

Section II Human Evolution: A House of Cards

Introduction to Section II: Revisionist History 73

6 With a Name like Neandertal, He's Got to Be Good 75

7 Java Man: The Rest of the Story 86

8 Java Man: Keeping the Faith 92

9 Wadjak Man: Not All Fossils Are Created Equal 98

10 The Selenka-Trinil Expedition: A Second Opinion 109

11 Homo Erectus: A Man for All Seasons 115

12 Homo Erectus: All in the Family 124

Section III Evolution and Racism: A Fatal Attraction

Introduction to Section III: "So Just What Is Racism?" 137

13 The Voyage 141

14 Tasmanian Devils 147

15 The Elephant in the Living Room 152

16 Rhodesian Man: The Fastest-Aging Man in the World 159

Section IV The Empire's New Clothes

Introduction to Section IV: The Fake Parade 167

17 African Eve: A Woman of No Importance 170

18 Splitters versus Lumpers 181

19 "We Are All African": A Study in Political Correctness 190

20 A Cave in Spain Makes It All Very Plain 197

Section V Trashing Neandertals

Introduction to Section V: The "Neandertal Storm" 207

21 "Otherizing" the Neandertals 209

22 Neandertals, Tasmanians, and the Wild and Woolly West 214

23 Technical Section: mtDNA Neandertal Park-A Catch-22 222

24 The Neandertal Next Door (Maybe) 236

25 In Life and Death: So Very Human 246

26 Stunning Answers from the Land Down Under 258

Section VI The Creationist Dating Revolution

Introduction to Section VI: It's About Time 273

27 A Twenty-First-Century Scientific Revolution 277

28 The Dating Gap: Laying a Really Large Egg 288

Section VII Reality!

Introduction to Section VII: "Get Real!" 295

29 The Pretend Humans: The Nonhuman Fossil Primates 298

30 Never Discuss Theology with a Chimp 303

31 Genesis: The Footnotes of Moses 316

32 Reality in the Human Fossil Record 326

Charts of the Human Fossil Record 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-390) and indexes.

ISBN:

0801065232

OCLC:

55228499