The Myth Series (Part 5)

Jesus Christ is the solid Rock and anchor of all those who call upon His Name. By Him, God creates the entire earth and its universe, along with all of earth’s lifeforms, in six twenty-four hour days.  By Him, this Jesus Christ, all things exist—and specifically, you and me.  By Him all things are held together—what physicists know as the mysterious and invisible Strong Force, without which we would simply go *poof!* and disappear.  This force is no mystery to the blood-bought.  We are instructed in the Scriptures that we are held together by the invisible and omnipotent Word of His power.  By Him, our entire molecular structure and spiritual identity has its being. Without Him, we exist only as an empty, fleeting vanity, and by Him alone—by His soul-saving blood—this dark spot can be changed into eternal glory at the place Jesus Christ calls BORN AGAIN. Jesus Christ is the center of all with which we have to do, whether one likes it or not.  Hebrews 1:1-3:

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Colossians 1:19:

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;         

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Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

What I offer you today:  …This BORN AGAIN marvel of magnificence is beyond our ability to fully comprehend.  I personally have been washed in the blood of Christ for nearly 60 years, and the marvels of BORN AGAIN grow more glorious every day. The earth and its universe, and all the riches and beauty therein, are dwarfed miserably in the presence of Jesus Christ and His gift of BORN AGAIN.  This is surely NOT an exaggeration!

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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

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GOD SAID, Genesis 1:1:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

GOD SAID, Exodus 20:11:

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

GOD SAID, Proverbs 30:6:

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

MAN SAID: Of course I haven’t read it! Why would I when everyone knows the Bible is just a book of old myths. You know, fairy tales for the Sunday schooled and stupid.

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You have arrived at the GodSaidManSaid features titled “The Myth Series.”  Each of these features begins with the following foundational information:

It’s a matter of psychological projection.  The camp of the unbelievers project their evil surmisings and their own proclivities and deeds upon the camp of the faithful.  This is the standard MO (modus operandi) of the devil.  In the Garden of Eden, we see projection for the first time here when Satan calls God a liar.  Genesis 3:1-4:

1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Satan calls God a liar when he, the devil, is the father of the lie.  John 8:43-45:

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Projection is the MO (modus operandi) of Satan and his adherents of unbelief.  In their great halls of learning, they emphatically declare that the Bible is a book of mere myths written by men with a God fetish, but the actual truth of the matter could not be more 180° out.  The world’s academics are the masters of the myth. 

Speaking of 180° out, the publication Scientific American is celebrating its 180^th year.  The September 2025 issue published 18 pages noting various past issues where the accepted science of the day was proven wrong and scientific thought had to reverse and course-correct, as well as instances where bold scientific assertions are today somewhat dubious. Scientific American was not ashamed, by the way.  The headline celebrating their 180 years proclaims, “Upended.”  A defining lead statement follows:

Scientific revelations are rarely as dramatic as they appear in movies, with an iconoclastic scientist exclaiming: Everything we thought we knew is wrong! And plenty of people have sought to selectively interpret new evidence and question the consensus of a field for policy goals or economic gain.  But genuine 180s do happen—as do swerves, zigzags, and other, variously shaped course corrections.  To celebrate Scientific American’s 180^th anniversary, we set out to find fascinating examples of what happens when foundational assumptions get put to the test. [End of quote]

Their “truth” of yesterday is debunked by their “truth” of today, and their “truth” of today will be debunked by their “truth” of tomorrow.  Now contrast that with Hebrews 13:8:

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Myths? …who is the purveyor of myths? 

Who is God? …is He the creator-God of the Bible or is it evolution, the god of the unbelievers? 

The entire structure called the theory of evolution is totally built upon a foundation of unbelief called uniformitarianism. This doctrine states that the present is the key to the past.  The world’s geologists assert that, because the world moves along at a uniform pace now, by measuring percent of geological change they can see in the present they have the ability to extrapolate backward to the beginning of time, which they claim is 13.8 billion years ago.  Unfortunately for the uniformitarians, there are two colossal global events that occurred in the past, events that can be established beyond any reasonable doubt.  These two events totally shatter the false foundation of uniformitarianism. 

Global Event #1:

Genesis reports that God created the earth and its universe in six, 24-hour days just over 6,000 years ago. If a uniformitarian would have happened upon Adam, the world’s first man, just 15 minutes after he was created by God, that uniformitarian would certainly assume history:  Where are your mother and father, your grandparents, etc.? But Adam was only 15 minutes old.  Certainly, a six-day creation would not be called “uniform” by anyone, and, of course, it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

Global Event #2:

1,656 years after Adam opened his eyes, God destroyed the entire earth in a global flood.  As a result of man’s unbelief and disobedience, God destroyed all life on earth that had the breath of life in its nostrils, with the exception of those aboard Noah’s ark.  No one would call a global flood “uniform.”  But, was there such an event?

The amount of evidence in defense of Noah is absolutely staggering.  Just three points will be highlighted here:

1. The vast majority of the earth is covered with flood strata;
2. There are marine fossils found on every mountain peak, including Mount Everest;
3. Nearly every fossil found is a result of water action.

There was a global flood and it was not a “uniform” event.  The entire theory of evolution is built upon a fully discredited foundation called uniformitarianism.

Who are the masters of the myth?  This GodSaidManSaid series will be dubbed “The Myth Series.

Somebody is telling stories.  The following excerpts are from Dr. Carl Wermer’s book, Human Evolution: the Grand Experiment, Vol. 4.  A quick biography of Dr. Werner:

Dr. Carl Werener received his undergraduate degree in biology, with distinction, at the University of Missouri, graduating summa cum laude.  He received his doctoral degree in medicine at the age of 23.  Formerly, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Saint Louis University.  Dr. Werner is the author of the Evolution: The Grand Experiment book series and the executive producer of the Evolution: The Grand Experiment video series, which has played on seven television networks in 70 countries.

The doctor writes in the introduction:

According to those promoting the theory of human evolution, past mistaken ape-men, such as the Piltdown Man (a fake with five associated frauds), Nebraska Man (a pig’s tooth with two associated frauds), and the Libyan Ape-Man (a dolphin’s rib interpreted to be an ape-man collar bone), are not enough to challenge Darwin’s theory that apes evolved into humans.  A few gaffes are to be expected. 

But what if there were more?  What would that mean?  If a few overturned ape-men are of little consequence, would hundreds of overturned ape-men be a serious problem?  To date, more than 230 species of ape-men have been overturned!  They are so numerous they have been organized into categories or groups, as this book details. 

The previous volume in this series covered the first type of overturned ape-men—Ape-Men Created Using Bones of Non-Primate Mammals, such as cat, dog, raccoon, deer, dolphin, cattle, pig, ass, hippo, and horse family fossils.  These mammal bones were promoted as ape-men by the leaders in the field of human evolution, including Dr. Philip Tobias, Dr. F. Clark Howell, Dr. Raymond Dart, and Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, along with 36 other scientists.  These scientists founded 14 natural history museums, chaired 15 university science departments, and held 43 university professorships. They authored more than 128 books and 4,512 science journal articles on the topic of evolution.  They also misinterpreted 19,452 ordinary pebbles, rocks, stalactites, and animal bones as “tools” used by these Category-1 ape-men.  With so many errors in just this first category of overturned ape-men, is this enough to challenge the reliability of scientists interpreting fossil ape-men and cultural remains?  It should be noted that Category-1 Ape-Men are not simply mistakes of the distant past. The Orce Man (a donkey skull and two ruminant leg bones) is currently on display at the Museum of Prehistory in Orce, Spain and appeared in the 2004 National Geographic book entitled, The Human Story: Our Evolution from Prehistoric Ancestors to Today.

It should be noted that the Orce Man was “discovered” in 1982, and was debunked as the remains of a donkey or a horse in 1984. Dr. Werner’s book was published in 2024.  Somebody is telling stories.

Yes, somebody is telling stories. July 25^th marked the 100-year anniversary of one of the most sensationalized trials in US history.  It took place in Dayton, Tennessee, where a young biology teacher by the name of John Scopes was recruited by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) to challenge the Butler Act, which was passed by the Tennessee legislature banning the teaching of evolution.  Mr. Scopes lost the trial and was fined $100, but the trial was later upended on a technicality.  The July 2025 issue of Science News devotes eight pages to the celebration of the Scopes trial—a trial built upon a myth of which I found no mention in any of the eight pages of the Science News feature.

The lead attorney prosecuting the trial was William Jennings Bryan, also a nationally-famous politician.  Prior to the July 1925 trial, a public debate raged between Mr. Bryan and evolutionist Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborne, a public relations battle Dr. Osborne was losing.  The doctor was obsessed with Mr. Bryan and even published a book in 1925 titled, The Earth Speaks to Bryan.  In the Scopes trial, one of evolution’s champions was the “newly discovered” Nebraska Ape Man, behind whom you’ll find Dr. Osborne.  The fossil that was heralded around the world, the fossil from which Nebraska Man was imagined, was a single tooth. 

The Nebraska Ape Man was a myth.  In Dr. DT Gish’s handbook, Brainwashed, you’ll find this interesting statement:

Nebraska Man, made famous by the Scopes Evolution Trial, was fully debunked when further excavations found that the “proof” of this intermediate between ape and man was actually the tooth of a pig.  [End of quote]

In the book Human Evolution: The Grand Experiment, vol 3, Dr. Werner lays out the story in depth.  The first except is regarding Dr. Osborne’s grand unveiling of a fossilized tooth:

Scientifically, this discovery was of  “momentous importance” It was the first fossil ape ever discovered in North America, and it was a  “near certain ancestor” of humans, a  “new link to the chain of proof of the theory of Darwin.” 

Politically, Osborne was anxious to announce the fossil as it could help him win a growing public relations battle that he and others were losing due to an articulate, intelligent, and effective public speaker by the name of Mr. William Jennings Bryan. 

In 1904, Mr. Bryan started a grass roots battle to counter the growing threat of the theory of evolution against Christianity by giving speeches at the popular Chautauqua adult education movement venues across the United States and in large cities throughout the world. Dr. Osborne called Mr. Bryan  “the great commoner” because his talks were so persuasive and resonated with the masses.  Some of Bryan’s more popular speeches were entitled “The Menace of Darwinism,” “The Bible and It’s Enemies,” and “The Prince of Peace.” 

The following information is again lifted from Dr. Werner’s Vol. 3:

In 1925, Dr. Osborne wrote a book entitled The Earth Speaks to Bryan, calling Bryan ignorant, blind, dogmatic, deaf, a fanatic, a loud mouth, and a bigot—an abrasive personal attack on his rival.  Osborne’s contempt for Bryan and other Bible-believing citizens was evident when he wrote, “…Bryan is not an individual; he is a type.  He presents the Gospel to thousands of Americans all over the land who are convinced by his sermons that there is some antagonism between the Creator and His Creation, between God and Nature.”

In this book, he also refers to the upcoming Scopes Trial in Tennessee pertaining to a law which made it a crime to teach evolution in public schools.  Was Osborne attempting to discredit Bryan, who was going to assist the prosecution in the Scopes Trial, or was he simply espousing his view that naturalism triumphed over supernaturalism?   

Under the heading “Unprecedented News Coverage Begins,” you’ll read:

Once Dr. Osborne’s scientific articles in rebuttal of criticisms and objections were published, the news spread quickly to the secular press.  Dr. Grafton Elliot Smith, from University College London, wrote an article for The Illustrated London News supporting the claims of Osborne.  Since Smith was not part of the US team of scientists who described the fossil, his comments appear impartial. 

Dr. Smith wrote that finding the fossil tooth was “an event of momentous importance to every student of the history of the human family.  … Professor Osborne and Drs. Matthew and Gregory…have had a wider experience of such material than any other paleontologists, but also are men with exact knowledge and sound judgement. One can, therefore, place implicit trust in their claim that the tooth found in the Pliocene beds of Nebraska is really of a primitive member of the human family.” 

Do not forget: This is a tooth of a pig. The desperation to believe (and prove) the theory of evolution has always been strong.

Werner reprints a New York Times feature originally published February 23, 1925, under the title “Will Hunt Twin of Ape-Man’s Tooth.”  It reads in part:

The search for the tooth will be carried on by digging parties in Nebraska at sites near which the original tooth was found….

The original “million-dollar tooth” or Hesperopithecus tooth was found by Harold J. Cook, a consulting geologist at Agate, Neb., who suspected it to be anthropoid.  It was identified as anthropoid, and as the first anthropoid relic to be found in the Western Hemisphere, by Professor Henry Fairchild Osborne, President of the American Museum of Natural History, whose conclusions have been confirmed by many detailed researchers.  The tooth has recently been accepted by G. Elliot Smith and other distinguished European anthropologists as proof that beings of the higher ape and possibly of the lowerhuman stock found their way to America in prehistoric times, possibly crossing the Mongolia on a land connections which then existed with Alaska …. A bulletin of the American Museum on this subject said yesterday:

“In the whole history of anthropology no tooth has ever been subjected to such severe cross-examination as this now world-famous tooth of Hesperopithecus. After the original examination under Professor Osborne’s direction, and all of the specialists in the American Museum, the conclusion was reached, in 1922, that this tooth resembles the human type more closely than it does that of any other known anthropoid ape. 

[Did you catch that racism?  “Lower human stock.”  More on evolution’s incredibly racist past; click here!]

Dr. Werner continues with his description:

As mentioned earlier, scientists from the American Museum returned to the Snake Creek quarries in the summers of 1925 and 1926 to look for more remains of the fossil ape-man Hesperopithecus. It was during these expeditions that one of the scientists picked up a series of teeth from the extinct wild pig known as Prosthennops. Remarkably, these Prosthennops premolar teeth looked similar to Harold Cook’s “ape-man” molar tooth. 

Dr. Gregory brought the pig teeth back to the American Museum to make side-by-side comparisons to Harold Cook’s “ape-man” tooth.  It soon became apparent that the ape-man tooth found in Nebraska, and reported in The New York Times and The Illustrated London News, was from the extinct pig Prosthennops.  The tooth had not only been misidentified but also had been misclassified.  Osborne’s ape-man tooth was not from the mammal order primates, but was a wild pig from the mammal order Artiodactyla (even-toed hoofed mammals). 

The publication Science published this headline in their December 16, 1927 edition: “Hesperopithecus Apparently Not an Ape Nor a Man.”  Dr. Werner notes:

In February 1928, The New York Times finally published an article revealing that the American Museum’s staff had misidentified a wild pig tooth as an ape-man. 

On Monday, February 20, 1928, the headline of The New York Times read, “Nebraska Ape Tooth Proved a Wild Pig’s.”  The subhead read, “Million-dollar molar stirred six-year battle which ends in victory for Peccary."  The word "peccary" means “pig,” by the way. Two excerpts follow from that 1928 feature:

This tooth has been the subject of warm controversy in this country and Europe for nearly six years.  G. Elliot Smith and other distinguished British anthropologists accepted the tooth as proof that a sub-human or high anthropoid type had existed in the United States.  It was thrown up to William Jennings Bryan frequently in the course of the evolution controversy because the ancient molar had been found in his state. 

Scores of learned and popular magazine articles were written about it. It was an arsenal of ammunition for the Modernists in their theological wars.  [End of quotes]

Dr. Werner highlights a conundrum compounding the shame of the misidentification:

Photographs of bone tools and necklace beads found near the ape-man tooth at Snake Creek quarries were published in Scientific American in August 1927.  Four months later, when Dr. Gregory reported the tooth was that of a wild pig, these cultural artifacts posed a problem for the American Museum’s staff.  If the tooth was not from an ape-man but a wild pig, where did these awls, bone tools, beads, cutters, skin dressers, and tattooing combs come from?  Who was doing the sewing?  Who was wearing the necklaces?  And who was tattooing whom?

Dr. Osborne and his staff were now forced to re-evaluate the 3,000 bone artifacts recovered from Snake Creek.  They determined all were pseudo-artifacts, just random bone fragments. Given the fact that Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborne was considered “one of the world’s leading authorities on the antiquity and evolution of man,” this seems unimaginable.

Somebody is telling stories, and they are desperate to believe those stories. Human Evolution: The Grand Experiment, Vol. 3 published the following chart:

OSBORNE’S DISCOVERIES	OSBORNE’S INTERPRETATIONS	NOW
	Ape-man	Wild Pig
Tooth	Second or third molar	Premolar
Species	Hesperopithecus haroldcookii	Prosthennops serus
Order	Primate	Artiodactyla (hoofed mammal)
Tooth Anatomy	11 features show it was a link between ape and man	Wild pig
Face	Short, human-like face	Long, pig snout
Culture	Advanced	None
Jewelry	Neck ornaments made of strung bones	No jewelry; broken bone fragments
Tools:	40 types of tools	No tools; broken bone fragments
Skin Dressers	Skin dressers for cleaning animal hides	Actually just broken bone fragments
Tattooing	A tattooing implement	Actually just broken bone fragments
Awls	Awl-like implements evidently used in sewing	Actually just broken bone fragments

 

It’s called psychological projection: Where Satan’s champions attempt to stamp their very own proclivities on the forehead of God’s Holy Bible.  Somebody is telling stories.  The myth-makers dwell in the camp of the world’s academics and not in Sunday School.

I need to know it’s true.  Everything depends upon it.  Be of good cheer, child of God! Your childlike faith will not be disappointed.  God’s Word is the unchanging solid rock.  It is true…entirely true and righteous altogether.  Yes, a place to build a life that will last forever.

GOD SAID, Genesis 1:1:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

GOD SAID, Exodus 20:11:

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

GOD SAID, Proverbs 30:6:

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

MAN SAID: Of course I haven’t read it! Why would I when everyone knows the Bible is just a book of old myths. You know, fairy tales for the Sunday schooled and stupid.

 

 

Now you have THE RECORD.

 

References:

Authorized King James Version

Werner, C., Human Evolution: The Grand Experiment Vol. 3, Audio Visual Consultants Inc., St. Louis, 2024

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