Ape-Man Shenanigans Exposed

Recent presentations reveal
hoaxes in paleoanthropology that
still are continuing today

Big Science and its legacy media refuse to reveal the truth about frauds in “early man” studies. Since the Darwinians exercise totalitarian control over public education and what passes for “science media” these days, engaging in censorship against anything embarrassing to Darwinism, it’s up to Darwin skeptics to do the investigative journalism into cases of potential fraud. We urge our readers to watch these recent presentations that expose major hoaxes by paleoanthropologists. These frauds would be internationally scandalous if enough people heard about them.

Human Evolution Demolished (Dr Jerry Bergman, Logos Research Associates, 12 March 2025). Dr Jerry Bergman, a frequent contributor to Creation-Evolution Headlines, presented the history of early man studies. In this presentation, Bergman shows how in the early 20th century, the scientific consensus supported racism and eugenics, to their shame. They used bones of “ape-men” as propaganda to argue that white Europeans were more “evolved” than non-whites. From his collection of textbooks and media illustrations, Dr Bergman reveals how artists routinely portrayed blacks as closer to apes than to humans.

All fossil hominids, he shows, fall into two groups: fully ape, or fully human. Most often, he says, famous “ape-man” bones consist only of skulls or fragments of jaws. Dr Bergman shows artist reconstructions that intentionally put ape-like skulls onto upright-walking, human-like bodies (look at today’s artwork of Lucy at The Conversation to see that this deception still goes on). See also Dr Bergman’s articles here at CEH under the topic “Early Man” where some of these illustrations are displayed. Jerry Bergman is author of over 40 books and was a co-author of Apes as Ancestors.

In this 2024 artwork of “Lucy,” Scientific American put an ape-like head on a human-like body.

Lucy “Missing Link” Fossils and the Pygmy Human Hypothesis (Dr Chris Rupe, Back2Genesis, 8 March 2025). Dr Rupe, recently awarded his PhD in geology, is a young board member of Logos Research Associates, co-author of the book Contested Bones with Dr John Sanford, and producer of the documentary film Dismantled that refutes all the major arguments for evolution. When it comes to icons of human evolution, “Lucy” (Australopithecus afarensis) is the best known to the public. In this shocking presentation at his new YouTube channel, Chris Rupe proves with journal papers and bone comparisons that Lucy is a composite of human bones placed with an ape skull that was not found with them. He demonstrates in citations that’s what Donald Johanson said himself in his initial publications about the skeleton.

But Johanson later changed his mind to agree with a colleague’s view that only one hominid could exist at a time (something today’s paleoanthropologists do not believe any more). His colleague, whom he names in the video, convinced Johanson that it was therefore impossible that humans and Australopithecines co-existed, and so they colluded to republish the skeleton as a missing link between apes and humans. Making this change in narrative required them to fudge the dates of the bones to fit with the new timeline. Rupe displays the old and new dates side by side, and reads from an email he had with paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey that this is, indeed, how the current tale about Lucy unfolded. Additionally, Chris shows other evidence that was reinterpreted to fit the new story, like the Laetoli footprints.

Dr Rupe presents evidence that the human bones are from a pygmy (a fully human member of Homo sapiens) that were placed together with an ape skull. He describes where and when the disparate bones were found in the Afar region of Ethiopia.

Homo Erectus EXPOSED (Dr Carl Werner on Genesis Science Network, 28 Jan 2025). Fossil investigator Dr Carl Werner, author of two books and videos on fossils and evolution, exposes the history of Homo erectus fossils from “Java Man” onward. In an interview with David Rives, Werner shows that the the first H. erectus fossils were drawn with a protruding face like those of apes. But when Richard Leakey found a complete H. erectus skeleton with the facial bones intact, he physically moved the face forward to make it look more apelike. Leakey admitted in an email to Werner that he had wrongly placed the snout of this “Turkana Boy” in an apelike position. Werner also photographed the original skull and found that Leakey had photo-shopped the evidence to fit the ape-man narrative.

The facts uncovered by Chris Rupe expose a major fraud, equal to or worse (in our opinion) than the infamous Piltdown Hoax. In the Piltdown scandal (one of the biggest hoaxes in science history), the secret was kept by a single person or two, requiring 50 years of investigation to expose. This fraud about Lucy has a paper trail that is revealed in this video, so there is no excuse. In both cases, evolutionists were overly quick to believe bogus evidence that appeared to fit their narrative. That is the opposite of scientific integrity.

The facts uncovered by Carl Werner expose another hoax about Homo erectus. He heard the perpetrator, Richard Leakey, admit it in person to him! Jerry Bergman showed that this pattern of falsifying data to further an evolutionary narrative has gone on ever since Darwinism gained ascendancy in the “scientific community.”

It’s time to call evolutionary paleoanthropologists on the carpet for foisting major hoaxes on the world by pretending that these contested bones represent our human ancestry from ape-like animals.

Fossil “hominids” fit into ape-like or human-like categories. If you put a Neanderthal in a business suit and had him walk down Broadway, nobody would notice. Yet evolutionists have used “Neanderthal Man” as a missing link for over a century and classified him as a different species. (Grok/XI)