Piltdown: The Man that Never Was
Source: www.unmuseum.org
For forty years they were considered one of the archaeological finds of the century: A fragment of jaw and a part of a skull that could prove man evolved from the apes. They were the bones of Eoanthropus dawsoni found near Piltdown Common in Sussex. The bones of the "Missing Link."
Not.
Since 1953 the name "Piltdown" hasn't been associated with great scientific discovery, but great scientific fraud. It was in that year that a group of scientists, lead by Kenneth Page Oakley, attempted to use the new method of fluorine testing to get a more exact date on the bones. What the test showed surprised them: The jaw was modern and the skull only six hundred years old.
Additional analysis soon confirmed the fluorine tests. The jaw was really that of an orangutan. It had been filed down and parts that might have suggested it's simian origin were broken off. Both pieces had been treated to suggest great age. In short, a hoax!
2006-11-01
06:40:23
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For those of you who want further proof of tampering w/ fossils to support evolution visit this site: www.mcremo.com/hidden
2006-11-01
06:41:37 ·
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There is a great book on this subject, "Bones of Contention" by Marvin L. Lubenow, for all those die hard fans of the fossil record.
Even the great "Lucy", shown in all the museums with human hands and feet was a hoax, turns out she was just a chimp. The hands and feet were added to promote evolution-another lie.
What can we trust from the evolutionist camp?
2006-11-01 06:50:10
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answered by Desperado 5
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Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for letting me experience that moment of magic and beauty with you. I have such longng for experiences like that- and I am so trapped in this city, which grows more Godless and less humane every day, people with their eyes holding windows out to the vacuum of apathy and the dark matter of desoeration and fear, hunger and malice. Predators and prey, at once. I wish the elks would visit me but no, if they did they would be killed and consumed in seconds flat. And I don't mean just the meat. What this poem depicts spiritually iis what is completely lacking from my environment. And I certain;y have not found it in any church here where there are the holier than thou spiteful upper middle class, bestowing government bulk foods to the rest of the congregation who are there for charity, hating being there but wanting to survive without effort of sacrifice. I am being judgemental. But when there is an exception I pay heed, and I try to help when and where I can. Mostly, I try to stay sane and true to my faith which I have always had, just never put a name or a textbook to. Thank you as I go to read this again, more slowly as to experience every nuance within.
2016-05-23 04:07:31
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answered by Anonymous
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It's quite funny that the Piltdown man would not have been recognized as a hoax had scientists not looked at it and compared it to predictions of evolution and said, "Wait, wait, no... this doesn't work, there's something wrong here..."
Piltdown man's being proven a hoax was support for evolution, because without the theory of evolution, no one would have noticed the hoax.
2006-11-01 06:43:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Nero, I have seen that you are a fanatic.At least you admit that there is "evidence". If you want to believe in creation, why does that necessarily discount evolution? Obviously, there is mounds of evidence to support evolution, but I can see how creation could possibly have been partially true. Obviously God did not create only Adam and Eve. Cain went to Nod, where he found a wife. Genesis itself proves that if God created Adam and Eve, He did not stop there.
Personally, I am no sure that there is a God, but his existence has nothing to do with my soul. Most of us will cross over.
2006-11-01 06:51:46
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answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7
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i see you are a troll who frequents these boards to be antagonistic??!!!.
WOW!
Now that we have established that, do you realize how pathetic this post and indeed, your lame *ss attempts to defraud evolution are?
Really!
There is no doubt in my mind that errors have been made in the scientific world for thousands of years.
The problem is, there is too much overwhelming proof BESIDES this lame story.
You can stick your head back in the sand, but if you got outa the box, you might find that the air isn't so stagnant and lacking in oxygen. You would be able to think then and THAT would help ALOT!
2006-11-01 07:00:52
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answered by cici 5
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Okay, so you proved one of the thousands of fossils to be a hoax. Does that mean all the other ones were too? No, most of the other ones are real, and show our evolution from early bipedal creatures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_evolution
2006-11-01 07:42:10
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answered by Take it from Toby 7
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you should buy a modern biology book (2005 or later it may run u 100 bucks or so but its worth it for what you will learn)
and see what kinds of major advances have been made in the area of genetics and genetic biology.
good luck on your quest remember seek truth not justification-
2006-11-01 07:04:22
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answered by spoonman 3
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There have been far more frauds in the area of art. Do such cases affect the validity or value of real art in any way?
2006-11-01 07:03:16
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answered by PaulCyp 7
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I suppose God Theory holds water. GOD THEORY - The accumulated myths and superstitions of your ancestors which have been dogmatized, institutionalized and mounded into the colossal pile of crap you call ultimate truth.
2006-11-01 06:43:22
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answered by iknowtruthismine 7
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I don't know if you realize this or not, but it's very, very, very easy to discredit creationism. You don't need a whole orchestrated "hoax" to do it.
2006-11-01 06:42:52
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