This Day in Evolution History
You may have heard of the masterful
technique of evaluating a minute amount (or parts) of bones,
and discovering a new species and/or a whole civilization of
people through the interpretation of them.
This is called "Micro-Projection".
It was used on Lucy,
Nebraska
Man and Willy.
But do you know how the technique
evolved and who evolved it?
Probably not, because at the
time it (the technique) was thoroughly discredited as "pie-in-the-sky"
wishful thinking and the story has been buried deep within the
bowels of history ever since.
It (Micro-Projection) was born
out of the mind (brain) of Dr. Edwin R. Mountainmolus. But when
he went public with his discovery, he was laughed at and mocked
right out of the scientific community.

The only known photo of
Dr. Mountainmolus
They said he was creating fiction
and making up stories that he had absolutely no (or way too little)
evidence for. They called it "junk
science".
Of coarse since then, the scientific
community has become more enlightened and validated the technique.
It is used sometimes nowadays, just like the examples listed
above.
You will find fundy creationists
making the same accusations today as those who questioned Dr.
Mountainmolus in the late 1800's.
They say that since there is
no real proof of evolution, some scientists tend to make things
up around a small set of bones to try and validate (via Micro-Projection)
the theory that man came from apes.
The naturalistic secular scientists
deny this allegation, and say that the creationists are neanderthals
living in the past and hate-mongers.
So since Dr. Mountainmolus has
been vindicated by today's top scientists, we here at the Institute
for the Study of Atheianity wanted to revisit the past and share
with you, the public, Mountainmolus's great discovery.
On this day in 1899, Dr. Mountainmolus
discovered this bone and tooth . . .
And the more he pondered the
possibilities, the more excited he became. Not only could he
invision the person, but the people around him and his community
as well.
He quicky registered the name
of this classification of the newly discovered species as australioflintstonus
africanus.
He determined that the man was
very primative, but had probably erected his own man-made cave
house. This was a giant step in the evolution of man.
This man, which he affectionately
named Frd, still walked barefoot but did wear some type of clothing
- probably made out of animal hyde.
After interpreting patterns in
the ground around which the bone and tooth were discovered, Mountainmolus
thought that Frd had a mate and that her name was probably Wlmuh.
What was amazing was that it
appeared that these people
lived at the same time as dinosaurs and actually "trained"
said dinosaurs to do work for them! They may have even kept them
as pets.
But this is one of the ideas
that got Mountainmolus laughed at, but he stood by this assertation
all his life. He was a great hero.
Something else that got Dr. M.
ridicule was his theory that these primatives were so resillient,
that they were virtually indestructable. It didn't matter whether
a boulder fell on them or whether they ran into a rock wall,
they wouldn't be fatally wounded.
This also earned Mountainmolus
some jeers.
The next thing he discovered
was that there were others who lived in close proximity to the
first couple mentioned above. He aptly named them Brny and Btty.
Frd and Brny worked at the local
rock quarry digging out rocks which was the only industry of
the day.
And obviously the wheel had been
invented at this point because Frd and Brny went to work in a
primative car that was foot powered (which made it environmentally
friendly).
Sadly, the rest of Dr. Mountainmolus's
work was lost due to a fire at his cabin in the woods deep within
the Oregon country side.
However, scientists do have ashes
of his work and are Micro-Projecting their pre-charred content.
They say they will let us know what they discover.
Luckily there is one more piece
of evidence which remained mostly intact. It is a sketch drawn
by Dr. Mountainmolus of the australioflintstonus africanus
that he discovered (or rather discovered a bone and tooth of)
on this day on 1899.
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