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In 1912, Charles Dawson, a well-known doctor
and also an amateur paleontologist, claimed to
have found a jaw bone and skull fragment in a
depression near Piltdown, England. Although
the jaw bone resembled an ape jaw, the teeth
and skull resembled those of a human being.
The fossils were given the name "Piltdown Man,"
dated at 500,000 years old, and put on display
in the British Museum as the most significant had been added on and set afterwards to give
evidence of so-called human evolution. A great the impression of being human, and the insertion
many scientific papers, analyses and illustrations points had been planed down. All the fragments
were produced over the next 40 years. Some had then been stained with potassium dichromate
500 academics from different universities wrote in order to give an aged appearance. This
doctoral theses about Piltdown Man. 1 staining disappeared when the bones were
On a visit to the British Museum in 1935, the placed in acid. Le Gros Clark, from the team
well-known American paleoanthropologist H. F. that exposed the hoax, was unable to conceal
Osborn said, "... Nature is full of paradoxes... a his amazement and said: "The evidences of ar-
discovery of transcendent importance to the pre- tificial abrasion immediately sprang to the eye.
history of man." But Piltdown Man was a huge Indeed so obvious did they seem it may well be
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fraud, a deliberately manufactured hoax. asked-how was it that they had escaped notice
In 1949, Kenneth Oakley from the British Mu- before?" 4
seum Paleontology Department sought permission The science writer Hank Hanegraaff referred
to use the newly developed "fluoride test" on a to this astonishing state of affairs as follows:
number of ancient fossils. The Piltdown Man ... as Marvin Lubenov explains, 'The file marks
fossil was duly tested using the technique. The on the orangutan teeth of the lower jaw were
test revealed that there was no fluoride in the clearly visible. The molars were misaligned
Piltdown Man jaw bone. This meant that the jaw and filed at two different angles. The canine
bone had been underground for no more than a tooth had been filed down so far that the pulp
few years. The skull itself contained a small cavity had been exposed and then plugged. 5
amount of fluoride and must have been a few Following this surprising and, for Darwinists,
thousand years old. embarrassing discovery, Piltdown Man was
Subsequent chronological research based on hastily removed from the British Museum where
the fluoride technique revealed that the skull it had been on display for some 40 years.
was no more than a few thousand years in age. The Darwinist deception was so enormous
It was also realized that the teeth in the jaw that a hand-made fossil had fooled the whole
bone had been artificially worn down, and that scientific world and all mankind for 40 years.
the primitive tools found beside the fossils were This would inevitably go down as one of the
replicas carved out using steel equipment. 3 blackest marks in the history of evolution.
Oxford professor of physical anthropology Joseph
Weiner's detailed analyses definitively confirmed
1- Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans,
this fraud in 1953. The skull was human, around 1980, p. 59
2- Stephen Jay Gould, "Smith Woodward's Folly", New Scientist, April 5, 1979,
500 years old, while the jaw bone belonged to a p.44
3- Kenneth Oakley, William Le Gros Clark & J. S, "Piltdown", Meydan Larous-
recently deceased orangutan! The teeth se, vol. 10, p. 133.
4- Stephen Jay Gould, "Smith Woodward's Folly", New Scientist, April 5, 1979,
p.44
5- Hank Hanegraaff, Fatal Flaws "What Evolutionists Don't Want You To
Know", W Publishing Group, 2003 p. 34