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belonged to a recently deceased orangutan! The teeth had been added on and set afterwards to give the
impression of being human, and the insertion points had been planed down. All the fragments had then
been stained with potassium dichromate in order to give an aged appearance. This staining disappeared
when the bones were placed in acid. Le Gros Clark, from the team that exposed the hoax, was unable to

conceal his amazement and said: "The evidences of artificial abrasion immediately sprang to the eye.
Indeed so obvious did they seem it may well be asked-how was it that they had escaped notice be-
fore?" 56
The science writer Hank Hanegraaff referred to this astonishing state of affairs as follows: ”... as

Marvin Lubenov explains, 'The file marks on the orangutan teeth of the lower jaw were clearly visible.
The molars were misaligned and filed at two different angles. The canine tooth had been filed down so
far that the pulp cavity had been exposed and then plugged.'” 57
The evolutionist biologist Keith Steward Thomson made this comment about the Piltdown Man lie,

“The Piltdown man forgery of 1912 was one of most successful and wicked of all scientific frauds.” 58
Following this surprising and, for Darwinists, embarrassing discovery, Piltdown Man was hastily
removed from the British Museum where it had been on display for some 40 years. The Darwinist de-
ception was so enormous that a hand-made fossil had fooled the whole scientific world and all mankind

for 40 years. This would inevitably go down as one of the blackest marks in the history of evolution.
Professor of Anthropology Pat Shipman described the impact of this fraud: “The Piltdown fossils, whose
discovery was first announced in 1912, fooled many of the greatest minds in paleoanthropology until
1953, when the remains were revealed as planted, altered – a forgery.” 59

The journalist, writer and philosopher Malcolm Muggeridge described the position that Darwinism,
propped up by hoaxes such as Piltdown Man, had placed all humanity in as follows: “I myself am con-
vinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it's been applied, will be one of the
great jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an

hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.” 60
The Piltdown hoax, committed, at least in the perpetrators’ eyes, in order to eliminate belief in cre-
ation and to convince people of the lie that human beings came into existence spontaneously and with
no responsibilities, is actually a stratagem of the system of the antichrist. But Allah’s glorious creation

and matchless works are so apparent and manifest that with today’s science there is nowhere they can-
not be seen. These vain endeavors across the world on the part of the antichrist just humiliate him and
his followers, and clearly reveal the failure of the Darwinism lie. Allah, our Almighty Lord, has told us
in numerous verses of the Qur’an, how He created human beings, and every piece of evidence in the

universe clearly reveals this sublime creation:
He Who has created all things in the best possible way. He commenced the creation of man from clay; then

produced his seed from an extract of base fluid; then formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave
you hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! (Qur’an, 32:7-9)

13. Nebraska Man was a fraud

In 1922, American Museum of Natural History director Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that he

had discovered a Pliocene molar tooth fossil near Snake Valley in West Nebraska. This tooth, it was
claimed, bore common ape and human features. Before long, a profound scientific debate had com-
menced on the subject. Some interpreted this tooth as coming from Pithecanthropus erectus while others
said it was more human. This fossil that created such major debates was given the name “Nebraska
Man.” A “scientific” name followed immediately after: Hesperopithecus haroldcooki.

Reconstructions of Nebraska Man’s skull and body were produced on the basis of this single tooth.
Things went even further as pictures showing Nebraska Man’s family in their natural habitat were pub-
lished. All these scenarios were produced from just one tooth. Evolutionist circles adopted this “ghost

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