ClintonHammond
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Dubois did claim that Java Man was "a gigantic genus allied to the gibbons", but that was owing to his own theories about how brains had evolved coupled with wishful thinking.
However this was not a retraction of his earlier claims that "Java Man" was an intermediate between apes and humans. Dubois also pointed out that it was bipedal and that its brain size was "very much too large for an anthropoid ape", and he never stopped believing that he had found an ancestor of modern man.
The skullcap definitely does not belong to any ape, and especially not to a gibbon. It is far too large (940 cc, compared to 97 cc for a gibbon)
The femur and -some- of the teeth, originally thought to also be pre-historic have since been proven NOT part of the 'historical' find. (A modern femur, and what are most likely orang-utan teeth) That however doesn't change the fact that the skullcap IS very similar to many other Homo erectus fossils that have been found, like "Sangiran 17", "Turkana Boy" or "ER 3733".
In a review of Richard Milton's book "Shattering the myths of Darwinism", Carl Wieland, the CEO of Answers in Genesis wrote, in 1998,
"[Milton's] statement that the Java Man remains are now thought to be simply those of an extinct, giant gibbon-like creature is simply false. He appears to have been misled by the myth (commenced by evolutionists, and perpetuated in both creationist and evolutionist works since) that Eugene Dubois, the discoverer of Java Man, recanted and called his discovery a 'giant gibbon'. Knowledgeable creationists do not make this sort of claim anymore. (Wieland 1998)
"he waited thirty years to reveal"
No... he didn't.... that's a common misconception (mythconception? LOL)
Dubois described the first "Wadjak Skull" in a letter to Dr. Ph. Sluiter (director of the library and Museum in what was then "Batavia") which was published in the Naturkundig Tijdschrift van Nederlandsch-Indie vol. 49 (1890) pp. 209-211... A journal that was widely distributed and available in Europe and America.
"two perfectly human skulls in the same area and level of gravel deposit"
First.... "nearby Wadjak" is a good one hundred miles of mountainous countryside away from Trinil, the site of Dubois' Pithecanthropus. 2ndly it is not accurate to call them "approximately the same level" when one is well over half a million years old and the other is less than ten thousand.
However this was not a retraction of his earlier claims that "Java Man" was an intermediate between apes and humans. Dubois also pointed out that it was bipedal and that its brain size was "very much too large for an anthropoid ape", and he never stopped believing that he had found an ancestor of modern man.
The skullcap definitely does not belong to any ape, and especially not to a gibbon. It is far too large (940 cc, compared to 97 cc for a gibbon)
The femur and -some- of the teeth, originally thought to also be pre-historic have since been proven NOT part of the 'historical' find. (A modern femur, and what are most likely orang-utan teeth) That however doesn't change the fact that the skullcap IS very similar to many other Homo erectus fossils that have been found, like "Sangiran 17", "Turkana Boy" or "ER 3733".
In a review of Richard Milton's book "Shattering the myths of Darwinism", Carl Wieland, the CEO of Answers in Genesis wrote, in 1998,
"[Milton's] statement that the Java Man remains are now thought to be simply those of an extinct, giant gibbon-like creature is simply false. He appears to have been misled by the myth (commenced by evolutionists, and perpetuated in both creationist and evolutionist works since) that Eugene Dubois, the discoverer of Java Man, recanted and called his discovery a 'giant gibbon'. Knowledgeable creationists do not make this sort of claim anymore. (Wieland 1998)
"he waited thirty years to reveal"
No... he didn't.... that's a common misconception (mythconception? LOL)
Dubois described the first "Wadjak Skull" in a letter to Dr. Ph. Sluiter (director of the library and Museum in what was then "Batavia") which was published in the Naturkundig Tijdschrift van Nederlandsch-Indie vol. 49 (1890) pp. 209-211... A journal that was widely distributed and available in Europe and America.
"two perfectly human skulls in the same area and level of gravel deposit"
First.... "nearby Wadjak" is a good one hundred miles of mountainous countryside away from Trinil, the site of Dubois' Pithecanthropus. 2ndly it is not accurate to call them "approximately the same level" when one is well over half a million years old and the other is less than ten thousand.