The Fossil Record and the Fall of Darwin’s Last Icon - Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation

This article is taken from the proceedings of the symposium 'The Two Shall Become One' held in Rome in September 2015, jointly sponsored by Human Life International and the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. The Fossil Record and the Fall of Darwin’s Last Icon by John M. Wynne Introduction Depictions of human evolution may be the most recognized of all Darwinian “icons,” as most people have been exposed to images such as those in Figure 1 since their youth. As recent fossil finds have transformed this icon into a complex timeline, as in Figure 2, paleoanthropologists continue to insist that the strength of the fossil evidence mandates viewing human evolution as a scientific fact.[1] Even as other Darwinian claims have been increasingly abandoned, the staunch defense of this last icon has continued and intensified. This paper explains that Darwin’s last icon has now fallen. In other words, a critical review of the fossil record using the information in the scientific literature leads …