MADAM – Here we go again, those evolutionists are jumping up and down with excitement that someone digging around in Ethiopia has found a fossil of a jawbone that apart from proving that we humans are 400,000 years older than at first thought this must be the missing link they have been hoping for to prove that the human race really did evolve from apes.

I well remember reading of the fevered perturbation among fusty old scientists who for long being in a state of torpidity were suddenly roused by the finding of Piltsdown Man in a quarry in 1915 in a location somewhere that escapes me but certainlynot too far from the university pranksters that doctored a skull of an ape to resemble what these fusty old scientists believed the link between apes and humans must look like.

Eureka! they shouted at last, We have proved that man lived up coconut trees 2.8 million years ago.

In 1953 it was revealed as a monumental hoax.

The clever, some will say foolhardy, pranksters that deceived the scientific world for 40 years are not as reckless in my opinion as the deluded evolutionists who persist in the lie that we crawled from the sea millions of year ago, grew legs and hair, and became apes.

If that sound illogical then these “evoillusionists”, as I like to call them claim the latest fossil of a jaw bone shows early man after he evolved from an ape.

When you consider that fossils of dinosaurs are scattered all over this earth.

In Charmouth where our family spent many a holiday there are so many fossils of Ammonites that you can’t fail to leave for home without some.

I have never seen nor has anyone else an Ammonite that is almost a dinosaur.

No-one has ever found a fish with legs that enabled it to leave the water for land. No fossils have or will ever be found of a hairy fish-like orang-utan.

The nonsense of the evolutionary theory doesn’t take into account that if, as the scientists will have it, we (Homo sapiens) have wandered this earth nearly half a million years longer than first thought wouldn’t we have left a footprint in the form of fossils showing the transition from ape to man.

This latest find could well be a genetic mutation not a glimpse of a fictitious Ape-man so fallaciously portrayed.

Man (and woman of course) and indeed all creatures were created in the image that we see to-day that can’t be disputed, who that creator was is another question altogether.

Basil Coates Rodborough