Piltdown Man and Other Frauds
Piltdown Fraud
The Piltdown man fraud could be considered “the greatest example of evolutionary gullibility of the 20th century.” The faked human skull and orangutan jaw, crudely doctored to look like fossils, were touted as a missing link and proof of human evolution, until they were exposed as a fraud in 1953—about 40 years after their discovery.
Piltdown Man One of Many Frauds
Piltdown man is not the first supposed human ancestor to fall, but like all the others—like “Nutcracker man” and “Lucy”—was replaced by new candidates. We view the facts of science not through a set of evolutionary presuppositions but through the eyewitness account contained in the Word of God.
Historic Scientific Hoaxes
To mark April Fools’ Day, National Geographic News summarized some historic scientific hoaxes: Piltdown Man, Cardiff Giant, Archaeoraptor, and Bigfoot.
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny Has Been Disproven: Why Is It Still Being Used In Biology Textbooks?
Do human embryos replay the evolutionary history of their species as they develop? This idea has led many to believe that what is growing in a woman's womb is merely an animal that can be conveniently disposed of in its fish stage. Countless people have been convinced by the wonders of the developing embryo—falsely portrayed—that evolution must be true. Why is this falsified idea still accepted by many teachers and scientists?
Articles About Piltdown Man and Other Frauds
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Aug. 21, 2020 from Answers in Depth
Countless people have been convinced by the wonders of the developing embryo—falsely portrayed—that evolution must be true. Why is this falsified idea still accepted by many teachers and scientists?
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Big Science HoaxesApril 4, 2009 from News to Know
To mark April Fools’ Day, National Geographic News summarized some historic—and noteworthy, from our perspective—scientific hoaxes.
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July 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine
The February 2007 issue of National Geographic recapitulated Ernest Haeckel’s mistaken belief that human embryos retrace their evolutionary ancestry.
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Upper Paleolithic Blues: Consequences of Recent Dating Fiasco on Human Evolutionary PrehistoryApril 13, 2005
The evolutionary history of modern humans could be in for a bumpy ride following revelations that a German anthropologist, Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten, falsified dates of human remains.
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Ancient Humans Are Not All That AncientFeb. 25, 2005
According to researchers at Oxford University, a number of human skeletal remains are not nearly as old as had been previously claimed.
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The Piltdown Man FraudNov. 24, 2003
“Britain’s Greatest Hoax” is the title of the Timewatch investigation of the Piltdown Man fraud, shown on BBC2 television recently.
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A Century of FraudNov. 18, 2003
Later this week, BBC–TV will run a documentary on the Piltdown apeman, ‘the greatest hoax of the 20th century.’
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Magazine Article‘Nebraska Man’ RevisitedSept. 1, 1991, pp. 13–14
More about ‘Nebraska man’—that now-discarded pig’s tooth that was reconstructed by some to look as though it came from a primitive evolutionary ‘ape-man’.
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Magazine ArticleNews on the Piltdown HoaxJan. 1, 1979, pp. 19–20
An article in Nature magazine titled “New Light on the Piltdown Hoax?” claims to have fresh circumstantial evidences as to the perpetrator of the fraud.
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