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Letter from Believing Jew in Palestine.
p. 183
A man's skeleton, estimated to be 12,000 years old, which has been found in
Gough's Caves at Cheddar, is regarded as the most important discovery made in
this century. It completely destroys the popular conception of the cave man of
the palaeolithic age as a simian creature . . . . .
Professor Rix said yesterday that the skeleton proves the slowness of
evolution in the last 12,000 years.
If the man were alive to-day, he would not attract attention because he would
be completely normal.
Flint tools found in the cave indicate that the man used the place as a
workshop (The News Chronicle, 22nd July, 1937).
The statements: "It completely destroys the popular conception of the cave man of the
palaeolithic age (earlier part of the prehistoric `stone age') as a simian (ape-like) and that
if he were alive to-day he would be `completely normal', are important concessions." If
science can "completely destroy" one part of its own conclusions, there is hope that it
may yet be led to reduce the 12,000 years to the shorter and Biblical period of a little less
than 6,000 years. Nothing yet discovered or "proved" justifies the slightest modification
of Gen. 1: 26, 27.