Dr. Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum made a striking comment when he appeared in the recent BBC TV series, Ape-Man: adventures in human evolution.
Referring to an occasion when some key human fossils were being assembled for a scientific conference, he said: 'There had to be tremendous security. The fossils had to be escorted in convoy from the airport. There also had to be special exhibition cases which were bullet-proof and even bomb-proof, against attacks by terrorists or creationists.'
For a moment, I had visions of a crack team in balaclavas from the Biblical Creation Society, scaling walls to hijack the collection! The implication of Dr. Stringer's comment is that creationists are frightened of what the fossil record may reveal about human origins. I want to show that, far from being fearful of the fossil evidence, creationists would like people to know the truth about it. Sadly, the truth is not what the Ape-Man series presented to the public.
