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 A. N. FieldFirst published 1941excerpts"prominent evolutionist, Professor J. B. S. Haldane, inhis book Possible Worlds (p. 38) said in 1927 : "The barrier of inter-specificsterility is the most serious argument against Darwin's Organic Evolution." It isequally a barrier against any other kind of organic evolution.""Nevertheless, there is a small, slight hiatus in the argument. There is,unfortunately for evolutionists, not a shred of evidence of any living thing everevolving into some different kind of living thing capable of breeding but infertilewith its parent stock. All that breeding experiments have produced is merevarieties fertile with their parent stock, or else sterile hybrids, incapable ofbreeding, such as the mule produced by a cross between horse and donkey. Allliving things go on obstinately producing young after their own kind and no otherkind. Evolution has to show that living things can break through their naturalbreeding limits. And this is just what evolution has been quite unable to show.""We are more at a loss than ever to understand the causes of evolution. Oneafter another the Buffonian, Lamarckian, Darwinian, Weissmannian, and DeVriesian theories of causation have collapsed ... All that we can say at present isthat Nature does not waste time or effort with chance or fortuity or experiment,but that she proceeds directly and creatively to her marvellous adaptative ends ofbiomechanism" (Nature, September 28, 1931)."Although so heatedly rebuking Huxley in 1862, Darwin himself eightmonths later, privately admitted in a letter to Dr. Bentham the total absence of anyproof of evolution. This is what he wrote under date of May 22, 1863 : "In factbelief in Natural Selection must at present be grounded entirely on generalconsiderations. . . . When we descend to details, we can prove that no one specieshas changed (i.e., we cannot prove that a single species has changed); nor can weprove that the supposed changes are beneficial, which is the groundwork of thetheory. Nor can we explain why some species have changed and others have not"(Darwin's Life and Letters, iii, 25).""The evidence in the monkey-man case rests on certain fossilised remains.The first of these to appear, consisting of a skull-cap and some fragments, wasfound in a cave near Dusseldorf shortly before the Origin of Species waspublished. Numerous other skulls of similar type have since been discovered, andare known as Neanderthal man. The earlier skulls were too incomplete to showthe position of the aperture by which the spinal cord entered the brain. It was thusimpossible to tell whether Neanderthal man stood upright or not. In conformitywith their evolutionist imaginings, scientists for a long time assumed thatNeanderthal man was a shaggy, crouching, apelike creature. A reconstruction ofhim on these lines was made by the eminent Professor Boule, director of theMuseum of Natural History in Paris. Similar models appeared in other museums,and pictures were freely published. A few scientists protested, but they were ignored.In 1929 some more complete remains were discovered at Rome the Java skull-top indicates a cranial capacity of about 900 c.c. Here it may benoted that an Australian aboriginal had a 1,250 c.c. brain-case, and a modernEuropean averages around 1,400 c.c.Whoever owned the Java thigh-bone very obviously stood upright, which noape does. As for the two teeth, they are generally described as ape-like butunusual. Combine the fragments, and the result is a creature standing erect, withchimpanzee brows and no forehead, a human thigh, and with face, feet, body andarms left to be sketched in according to fancy.