NEBRASKA MAN has to be one of the more humorous missing
links that evolutionists have attempted to use in order to prove evolution.
This is the story of Nebraska Man. A Geologist Harold Cook found
a single tooth in Snake Creek quarry in western Nebraska in 1921. The
fossilized tooth was then sent to Henry Osborn, who was head of the
American Museum of Natural History. He determined
that this tooth had characteristics of a chimpanzee and man.
He was delighted at the new evidence (because it was around the time
of the scopes trial). He immediately rushed to publication, and
announced the new species Hesperopithecus meaning "Ape of
the western world". In England Sir Grafton Elliot Smith,
F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy of Manchester, fully supported Osborn.
But the outcome of further study into the unusual tooth was not actually
from an ape-man but from a wild pig called a peccary.
" The outcome of further
study into the unusual tooth was not actually from an ape-man but
from a wild pig called a peccary. "
Nebraska Man
The discovery was made when Osborn himself went
to Nebraska in the summers of 1925 and 1926. Many more teeth were found,
and it became apparent that they goofed. The teeth belonged to an extinct
peccary (shown below), Prosthennops. So in effect a retraction
of Hesperopithecus was published in 1927.
Note that the ape-man and his wife (as shown above) was "scientifically"
constructed from a tooth. Despite the fact that this is not an ape-man
it is still used in some modern textbooks to this day.
Osborn himself
referred to that drawing as "a figment of the imagination of
no scientific value"
Peccary
Regarding the drawing of Nebraska Man, Osborn himself
referred to that drawing as "a figment of the imagination of no
scientific value".
Imagine the leading top scientific authorities had created an entire
race of people out of a single pigs tooth. In this case little publicity
was provided after the error was discovered (nowhere the extent of
the scopes trial publicity). I guess no one wants to end up looking
like a monkey.