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By Russ Miller

 Whenever I hear the words missing link I cannot help but think of the time a family member misplaced a cufflink and could not find it. Or the time at a barbecue when someone lost a link of prime sausage and could not find that either.

Those were truly missing links!

Now here is an irony for you. As far back as the 1950’s anthropologists using real science as their guide proved that Neanderthals were 100% human. Yet, even today, many Darwinists still claim them as a missing links.

Neanderthal Man was the name given to human bones found in 1856 in Germany’s Neander Valley. Many Darwinists still depict Neanderthal Man as a half-witted link between ape and man who lacked language skills and creative abilities.

Others say he was a dead-end in human evolution from our supposed ape-like ancestors.

However, the evidence has been around since the early 1900’s which proves that Neanderthal was a variation of modern humans, and he has been reclassified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a particular kind of modern man.

The renowned pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented evidence that the Neanderthal specimens which showed a hunched-over stance and other features were influenced by rickets and arthritis.

However, due to the overwhelming Darwinian bias, which has been undermining scientific education and scientific research for the past 100 years, his conclusions were held back from the public for half a century!

Another example of Darwinian bias was that it took longer than twenty years for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago to correct its display of Neanderthals even after their Neanderthal display was proven to be misleading Darwinian propaganda!

So much for honest science.

Darwinists still attempt to mislead anyone not on his or her toes.

For instance, although Neanderthal’s brain size was slightly larger than modern man’s, his brain is said to be of lower quality. However, this is just bias masquerading as science.

Evidence reveals that Neanderthal Man lived at the same time as modern man and that they likely interbred with each other. The discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid bone, related to the voice box, which was no different than that of a modern human, has led many scientists to the conclusion that Neanderthal Man had speech abilities just like that of humans today.

Other evidence reveals that Neanderthals conducted religious rituals and were very creative. A Neanderthal toddler was unearthed in Syria with a flint tool resting at about the spot where the infant’s heart had once beaten.

Tools and jewelry such as pierced animal teeth and ivory rings were discovered with a Neanderthal fossil in a French cave in 1996. Wooden spears and well-designed and crafted stone tools and stone spearheads have also been found.

These finds and many others contradict the Darwinian claim that Neanderthals were a less-developed missing link.

It has been concluded that Neanderthals lived with other variations of modern humans in the Middle East, and hybrids of Neanderthals and other humans are known from a number of areas around the world.

The only honest conclusion is that Neanderthal Man was 100% human.

Russ Miller is author of The GENESIS Report Series. Register at http://www.new-earth-thought.com to receive FREE his 50 Facts vs. Darwinism e-mail series.

Do Any Fossils Prove That Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs?
By Russ Miller

 Never has an intermediate fossil of a reptile evolving into a bird been found. Thousands of fossilized reptiles and birds are documented, yet not a single transitional fossil has been discovered that proves one species morphed into the other creature.

The overall fossil record is an enemy to Darwinism.

All higher kinds of plants and animals appear abruptly in the fossil record with no transitional types linking one group to another. The amount of transitional forms involved in the evolutionary transformation from reptiles to birds, over millions of years, should add up to an incredible number.

Although the only fossil evidence presented has not held up to even scant scientific scrutiny, it still has misled billions of people into believing in Darwinian-style evolution.

After one embarrassing candidate that was passed off as a reptile-to-bird missing link was proven to be a fraud put together by a cash-poor farmer in China, “The ‘Missing Link’ That Wasn’t” by Tim Friend appeared in USA TODAY, 2-3-2000.

In the article, Friend wrote:

“…this ‘true missing link between dinosaurs and birds’sprouted its…tail not 120 million years ago but only shortly before being smuggled out of China; has children believing in feathered dinosaurs that never existed, prominent scientists calling each other names and two respected science publications under assault.”

Unfortunately, the fraudulent claims hit the newsstands about once a year. After being used to mislead millions of people they then quietly disappear.

The primary candidate presented by Darwinists as the missing link between reptile and bird is Archaeopteryx.

There is no doubt that Archaeopteryx was an odd bird but there is also no honest doubt that it was 100% bird. It had well-developed feathers for flight, and feathers are very complex structures.

Researchers now know for a fact that reptile DNA does not contain the information to form feathers. The dagger through the heart of Darwinism here is that real science knows of no way for nature to add appreciable amounts of new and beneficial genetic information to an existing gene pool, much less the millions of pieces of data required to change a reptile into a flying bird.

Another crushing blow to the claim that Archaeopteryx was a missing link between reptiles and birds is that scientists have found several fossils of completely modern birds below the strata layers which contained Archaeopteryx.

“…scientists found bird bones farther down the geologic column than Archaeopteryx.” (Nature 322; 8-21-1986; Science 253; 7-5-1991.)

Since Darwinists believe those layers of rock formed slowly and that the fossils found in those strata represent our evolutionary paths, finding modern birds in layers below those that contain Archaeopteryx should have removed him from consideration as any sort of transitional kind.

The late paleontologist, Dr. Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural History, wrote a book titled Evolution. In reply to why he had not included any pictures of transitional forms in his publication, Dr. Patterson wrote:

“I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. I will lay it on the line, there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.” (C. Patterson, from a letter to Luther Sunderland, April 10, 1979, as published in Darwin’s Enigma (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 4th ed. 1988, page 89.)

Russ Miller is author of The GENESIS Report Series. Register at http://www.new-earth-thought.com to receive FREE his 50 Facts vs. Darwinism e-mail series.

Using Electromagnetism to Treat Brain Disorders
By Robert Webb

 Scientists have created a fairly recent invention called deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a relatively new treatment modality for brain disorders that was first introduced in 1985. Over the course of the past 10 years, it has been shown to improve a myriad number of brain disorders including schizophrenia, migraines and major depression.

The main idea behind this technology is that a TMS device generates an electromagnetic pulse that goes through a person’s skull and this pulse then creates an electric current in a targeted area of that person’s brain. When scientists change the frequency of the electromagnetic pulse, they can either increase or decrease activity selectively in any brain area. Low frequency pulses inhibit brain activity, while high frequency pulses excite brain activity. The problem, though, with existing TMS is that it can penetrate only about 1-2 cm into the brain. So this means that it is basically limited to activating or deactivating brain regions that are near to the subject’s skull.

Recently, scientists have invented a new deep transcranial magnetic stimulation device that is able to reach further into the brain. This device is able to inhibit or excite more areas that were previously out of reach with the older TMS devices. Deep TMS has the ability to touch practically any brain area. Usually disorders of the mind have brain areas that are either overactive or underactive in comparison to a normal brain.

This new technology can normalize abnormal brain activity by non-invasive stimulation. The major benefit to deep TMS is that it can be performed on a person when they are wide awake and completely conscious. So this device is very easy to use and it has few side effects. This is in comparison to drugs which often have many nasty side effects that go along with taking them.

Scientists are testing the deep TMS device on people who are overweight or obese to help them lose weight. They are non-invasively stimulating the hypothalamus which is a structure located deep within the brain. The hypothalamus secretes hormones and is involved in metabolic processes. So by stimulating this area researchers may enable a person to lose weight. The overweight person wouldn’t even have to do any dieting or exercising, all they would have to do is undergo several 30 minute treatment sessions.

Researchers are using the deep tms device to reduce the auditory hallucinations that are found in schizophrenic patients. Around 50 to 70 percent of schizophrenic patients can hear voices that do not exist in real life. These imaginary voices can be extremely distressing as they can make mean comments to the individual. Using brain imaging, scientists have found that an area of the brain called the left temporoparietal cortex is overactive when patients are experiencing these auditory hallucinations. So by using deep TMS, scientists may be able to decrease activity in these overactive brain areas and this could reduce the auditory hallucinations that schizophrenics experience.

Researchers are also using this device to treat many of the symptoms that are associated with depression. They are targeting directly brain regions that are involved in a person’s ability to experience reward and pleasure. Electrical stimulation of a brain area called the nucleus accumbens has been shown to be rewarding. However up until recently, patients had to undergo risky brain surgery to get a brain implant to stimulate this area. Now, though, scientists will be able to non-invasively stimulate the nucleus accumbens without the need for brain surgery. Depressed patients usually experience anhedonia (the inability to experience pleasure) along with dysphoric mood. The anhedonia is due to dysfunction of the reward circuits of the brain. So by using deep TMS, researchers can reduce chronic apathy and anhedonia in depressd patients by stimulating these reward related regions.

The researchers have already performed several clinical studies on over 100 depressed patients. They have found deep tms can improve or relieve anhedonia in more than 50% of the patients. So this treatment may allow a depressed patients to enjoy their life more than they would otherwise. In a study done on bipolar depressed patients, the researchers discovered that about 80% of the patients responded to the treatment, while 50% of them experienced a significant improvement in their depression symptoms. The scientists have even tested the deep TMS on normal healthy volunteers without a mood problem. The researchers have claimed that it improved the mood of these normal people. So this treatment may even enable a seemingly normal healthy person to get more enjoyment from their life.

This new deep TMS technology shows enormous potential for several different brain disorders. It could potentially allow a person to lose weight, experience more pleasure in life and reduce hallucinations (in schizophrenics). It may also find use for practically any brain disorder associated with altered brain functioning. Deep tms certainly has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of brain disorders in the future.

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