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Creationist Argument: Nebraska Man

Nebraska Man illustration by London News

[franksolich]

I was wondering, because I never heard of the "Nebraska man" before; do not recall it being mentioned in any books about the Scopes trial that I read.

[Messianic Jews Net]

Thanks for the help, apparently my memory of cave was an interpretation of the rocks in the right margin (see clearer photo). And thanks for the article. The link therein makes clear that whatever hammering Darrow did was off the record and that Osborn's hammering was abruptly withdrawn just before the trial (due to his own doubts). The point stands: Osborn, Smith, and Gregory all tentatively identified the tooth as hominid, Osborn partly because he wanted to show up Bryan, and Smith partly with illustrator Forestier's romanticism. This with other proofs validly demonstrates overready acceptance of a cherished hypothesis.

[ApplegateRanch]

Good Lord! I have a copy of that picture in an old text book!

My California grammar school was discarding (sacrilege: BURNING!) out-dated texts, back in the 50's, and I "rescued" a few that looked interesting. I was in 6th or 7th grade at the time.

The one that had that picture was a late 1800s/early 1900s "natural science" text. It is still packed away, in one of the many boxes of books.