Answersingenesis.org is a well-known Creationist site that attempts (rather miserably) to refute evolution.
Their supporters speak of AiG's lack of a bias, and their continuing scrutiny and peer-review processes, attempting to assert that AiG is an intelligent, scientific organization.
Discover Magazine published an article in 1997 describing a Neanderthal find in Germany that included musical instruments. These included a mastadon tuba and bone xylophone, which researcher Oscar Todkopf of Hindenburg University in Germany wanted to call the 'Xylobone'.
AiG has always asserted that H. neanderthalis and H. sapiens were one in the same. To back this claim, they used this Discover article. See below:
quote: Over the past several years, the scientific community has witnessed (not always to its liking, I might add) a serious ‘redefining’ of the Neandertal people. Some anthropologists of the past depicted them as culturally stagnant, if not outright stupid, individuals. In 1996, however, researchers were forced to re-evaluate their long-held views on Neandertals, due to the discovery of five different types of musical instruments, items of personal ornamentation (similar to our jewelry) and even the first example of a Neandertal cave painting.
Fascinating...except that the article was an April Fool's joke. There is no Hindenburg University. No Oscar 'Todkopf' (which means dead-head, by the way...how apt...). No such fossil find whatsoever.
One might wonder why AiG cited as evidence a made-up professor, fossil find, and even university when such information was easily accessible and their peer-review process was so scrupulous.
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