Science Falsely So Called

The Java Man evidence¹

Today is "Darwin Day" when the world celebrates "science falsely so called."

 "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things" (Romans 1:22-23). 

 A skullcap and a femur uncovered a year and twelve meters apart, was the "quintessential evidence" for Java Man on the Indonesian island of that name. Eugène Dubois, the self-edifying paleontologist, immediately christened his find Pithecanthropus Erectus (erect ape man).

Java Man reconstruction

The credibility of the 1891 discovery was immediately challenged by scores of books or articles — the “brute” generally dismissed as a jumbled combination of human and ape remains. Although Dubois contested that the relics were from a single individual, decades later it was reported that his Pithecanthropus 
"collection" contained an additional left femur i.e., Java Man had “two left feet.”

However, despite the hominid’s dubious authenticity, the “evidence” came just in time to rescue Darwin’s waning "theory," a theory that had been increasingly discredited due to a lack of transitional fossil evidence.

Eugène Dubois ¹

The real intrigue of the Java narrative is not the revelation of some primeval “brute” but rather the "humanity" of his “evolved” counterpart, compelled by arrogance and ambition, coerced his family to leave the familial setting of his professorship in Amsterdam and live among the danger, pestilence, and stagnant malaria infested waters of the impenetrable jungles of Java. Dubois buried four children there (American Scientist, Vol: 87, Num: 6, p504). 




And as the desperate ship’s captain, on the itinerant paleontologist’s eventual return to Europe, readied the lifeboats during a violent storm, Dubois instructed his wife: “If the lifeboat is lowered, you see to the little ones, for I shall have to look after this [Pithecanthropus]."

"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen" (1Ti 6:20-21).

¹By Peter Maas - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
curid=5735274

 ²By Unknown - Java Man reconstruction - in the public domain due to copyright expiring.

³By The original uploader was Woudloper at Dutch Wikipedia. - Transferred from nl.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3004530

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