No it's a natural feature in the rock so it is not intelligently designed,
must have come about by natural selection.
You can see the joints and cracks on a photo. President Clinton isjust to
the left !
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Rice" <rice@teravicta.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:32 PM
Subject: RE: Homo erectus in Africa
> Michael Roberts wrote:
> What surprised me is that there were 5 faces and not 4 as to the left of
> Washington is the distinct impression of a monkey's face in the rock -
> natural of course
>
> As it happens, my family was watching a special on Mt. Rushmore last night
> and it was said that originally Jefferson's face was to have been on the
> other side of Washington, but when the work started it was found that the
> stone in that area was not "right" for carving - too many fissures or
> something, so the crews at the time stopped work and blasted away what had
> already been sculpted and started over on the other side. Could this be a
> ghost image of the original unfinished carving? Although it's funnier
about
> it being Clinton.
> Janet Rice
>
>
>
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