The Evolution Lie: The De-evolution of Humanity Documented

CULTURAL DEVOLUTION Wherever we look, regression is evident. If there be any doubt, take these twenty-three examples. Skim through, if you wish. There’s quite enough to prove it. 1. Digging to the lowest depths, archaeologists repeatedly come upon a city complex architecturally superior to later cities on the same site. 2. The medicine of ancient Egypt was, generally speaking, far superior to that practiced in Europe during the Middle Ages. Pre-Incan medical surgery was superior to that of the Peruvian Inca. 3. The oceangoing vessels employed by the ancient explorers were large, strong and immensely superior to the craft possessed by medieval Europeans. 4. The earliest ancient maps were drawn with the greatest precision—and superior to later navigational charts. 5. The old Maya calendar is superior to our own. 6. It can be demonstrated that many languages have suffered degeneration. 7. Ancient set building stones are much larger and more difficult to transport than those of subsequent cultures. 8. In dynamic realism, the masterpieces of the Cro-Magnon cave artists of Altamira (Spain) and Lascaux (France) were superior to the paintings and sculptures of later civilizations. 9. Roads: Britain’s prehistoric Icknield Way (running 200 miles, in places as wide as a four-lane highway) is superior to any road constructed by the later Romans. 10. Mathematics: Whereas very ancient cultures knew about zero (the secret ingredient in advanced mathematics), frequently, as decadence occurred, they forgot it. The Babylonians, for example, wrote it as a blank space—a practice which eventually disappeared. The same retrograde process occurred in China. 11. Astronomy: Originally, constellations took the form of animals, making it easier to remember and identify them; however, as civilization retrogressed, they actually became animals, heroes or gods. 12. Scientific compasses, which pointed due north and south, were later preserved as magic, through which Chinese necromancers told fortunes. 13. Crete: The earliest Cretan empire was more culturally advanced than the empire which followed it (featuring running water, the most modem bathroom facilities, tinted-glass goblets, glazed dinnerware and elaborate dress styles). 48 14. Canary Islands: Considerable cultural deterioration operated until (by the time the Spaniards discovered them in the fourteenth century) warfare was being waged with stones and wooden weapons. They preserved the memory of a great civilization of cities, but were no longer capable of constructing anything more than simple huts. 15. The Pacific: On most islands of Polynesia and Micronesia are remains of cities, temples, harbors and statues, whose size and elaborate architecture indicate a civilization incomparably more advanced than exists there today. 16. Pakistan: The lowest strata of the remains of Mohenjo-Daro show a more developed art than the upper layers. Later the quality of the commercial seals fell off sadly. The soapstone was replaced by common clay; and crude geometric shapes replaced the lifelike engravings. Highly glazed ceramics were supplanted by plain clumsy pots. The city’s systematic plan gave way to shabby structures and mere hovels at the topmost stratum. From a high early peak of technology, it then progressed no further. Everything, was done in imitation of the old techniques. Even the bricks were inferior. 17. Central America: The present-day descendants of what was once the greatest empire in the Americas (the Maya) are mere jungle savages, unable to read or write their ancestors’ hieroglyphics; unable to construct large buildings, much less whole cities. 18. Egypt declined from technical sophistication to a vague shadow of its former glory. Earliest pyramid construction was superior to later pyramid construction; succeeding pyramids are clumsy imitations. Even construction methods changed (from levitation science to build the Great Pyramid in the Fourth Dynasty, to a balance of levers and pulleys a thousand years later in the Twelfth Dynasty). The workmanship level of jewelry as well as architecture was higher in earlier periods (everything being more perfectly made and more beautiful). On top of that, later generations suffered a decline in lifestyle. 19. Sumeria, extensive and all-encompassing, was in many respects more advanced than the cultures which followed it. 20. Greece: A city of the third millennium B.C. now at the bottom of Lake Copias (the legendary Copae destroyed by Hercules?) possesses a titanic complex of rock-hewn passages said to be beyond the capabilities of either classical or modern Greece. 21. Bulgaria: Grave excavations at Karanova have revealed an extraordinarily rich and complex technology of 3000 B.C. far in advance of later achievements in Europe. 49 22. Peru: Pre-Inca buildings and art were of a much higher level than those of the Incas. Furthermore, while more recent Spanish buildings collapse today in earthquakes, both the Inca and pre-Inca constructions survive them intact. 23. Easter Island statues of more recent times appear to be imperfect copies of the first creations. (And they have suffered most from erosion, whereas those from the archaic period have remained intact.) Again, the earliest settlement on the island was more remarkably developed than its two later successors. Do you see? it is not at all obvious that mankind is progressing; historically, degeneration has been the trend.   PHYSICAL DEGENERATION ALSO On the third day of our deliberations, the Jigsaw Team turned its attention to this question. Perch set the pace. “I’ll grant that culturally and morally we tend to retrogress,” he said. “But let’s look at the physical side. Surely in this sense we’re improving, right?” “Sorry, Charlie.” It was Wajsmann speaking. “Here again, according to demonstrated science, the opposite appears to be true. “For what it’s worth, the skull capacity (with its inferred brain size) of Cro-Magnon man was at least equal to and sometimes superior to our own. “Neanderthal (‘Stone Age’) man had an appreciably larger cranium (1,600 cubic centimeters) than that of modern man. “The cranial capacity of ancient man in Morocco (called ‘Mouillans’ by anthropologists) measured an average 2,000 cubic centimeters, compared to modern man’s cranial size of about 1,400 cubic centimeters. “I suggest to you that the downward spiral of intellectual capacity began soon after the Deluge. “Mankind today is no more intelligent than he was a thousand years ago, hut we have accumulated more technology. We have the accumulated knowledge of the past upon which we can draw and make improvements.” (I had to agree with Wajsmann. Most people would be shocked if they knew that a general regression is likewise evident in a good many species, both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms.) “Ok, out with it,” demanded Perch. “Where’s the evidence?” I proceeded. “Agassiz was one of the first to observe that in many instances the fish of extinct species were better developed and appeared 50 ‘more advanced’ than later species, the modern included. Agassiz spoke as an authority in his field. Many better developed mammals likewise became extinct.1 Similar observations have been made regarding practically all of today’s life-forms. “But there’s more. While the fossil record presents better developed specimens than those now living, another feature—larger size—has been observed in association. Do you see what we have here? “This is a blow to the evolutionary concept. ‘Cope’s Law’ presumed that the evolutionary series would show increase in improvement and size as time went on. “Darwin found himself at a loss to explain how ‘now we find mere pigmies compared with the antecedent allied races.’”2 Perch leaned forward. “So you’re saying that today’s animals were once larger? Like sheep as big as horses?” “Yes, Charlie. That’s the evidence.” “What about man?” At that moment, Corderoy shuffled a newspaper noisily, eliciting a frown from Denise. “How about this?” he crooned. “Just yesterday, October 19, in Nairobi, museum director Richard Leakey showed off an ancient skeleton of a twelve-year-old boy. Commenting on widely held scientific beliefs that man’s ancestors were smaller than modern man, Leakey said: ‘This specimen confirms early hints that Homo erectus individuals were fully as tall as modern people. We can now ask if many modern populat-ions are smaller than their early ancestors and if so why.’”3 I thanked Corderoy and continued. “We can go further and say with Dr. Louis Burkhatter that the ‘existence of gigantic human beings (in the past) must be considered as a scientifically assured fact.’”4 “Did you know that on every continent are uncovered not only artifacts, but footprints, skulls and skeletons of humans who far exceeded us in stature?” “Wasn’t aware of that,” said Perch. “These are well documented. In fact, a fresh look at the fossils led Weidenreich, of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History, to the belief that ‘gigantism and massiveness may have been a general or at least a widespread character of early mankind.’”5 “That’s staggering,” gasped Perch. “But it does support the Genesis line that ‘there were giants in the earth in those days.’6 Yet surely, wouldn’t large size be inefficient due to gravitational factors?” “Not necessarily, Charlie. You see, the basic characteristics of gravity still elude analysis by modern physics. A number of scientists now believe that electromagnetic energy supersedes the orthodox laws of gravity. 51 “Larger size may have been to man’s best advantage. There is scientific reason to believe that gigantic size and long life go together. The body cells become lighter, the blood moves more freely, there is less fatigue and the body wears out more slowly.”7 Wajsmann broke in. “Let’s not forget, the concept of an era when mankind lived longer does persist in the memory of most races. And scientific research in several countries suggests that life spans of several centuries are possible under certain conditions.”8 “A combination of factors such as apparently obtained before the Deluge?” asked Heron. “Well, it appears settled then. Man was once a higher, superior being—certainly not a species of the monkey family. We are only a shade of the original man.” Denise had been scribbling madly. Just then her stomach rumbled and she glanced hastily at her Cartier. “Goodness, it’s lunchtime!” she exclaimed. “Shall I sum up?” We nodded. “I suppose we must face it,” she sighed. “We live today in a zoologically impoverished world. The fossil remains show that in the past plants and animals alike were (1) more widely distributed; (2) of greater variety; and (3) greater in both size and quality. Humans likewise were superior, even to living longer. “That’s it, guys. Physical degeneration, and not evolutionary improvement, is the story of life on this planet. You might say, like a clock once wound up, but now running down.”   Dead Men's Secrets, pp. 47-51, Archaeologist Jonathan Gray