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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

To attempt to restore the soft parts is an even more hazardous undertaking.
The lips, the eyes, the ears, and the nasal tip leave no clues on the underlying
bony parts. You can with equal facility model on a Neanderthaloid skull
the features of a chimpanzee or the lineaments of a philosopher. These
alleged restorations of ancient types of man have very little if any scientific
value and are likely only to mislead the public … So put not your trust in
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As a matter of fact, evolutionists invent such preposterous stories that
they even ascribe different faces to the same skull. For example, the three
different reconstructed drawings made for the fossil named Australopithecus
robustus (Zinjanthropus) are a famous example of such forgery.
The biased interpretation of fossils and outright fabrication of many
imaginary reconstructions are an indication of how frequently
evolutionists have recourse to tricks. Yet these seem innocent when
compared to the deliberate forgeries that have been perpetrated in the
history of evolution.
There is no concrete fossil evidence to support the "ape-man" image,
which is unceasingly promulgated by the media and evolutionist
academic circles. With brushes in their hands, evolutionists produce
imaginary creatures; nevertheless, the fact that these drawings correspond
to no matching fossils constitutes a serious problem for them. One of the
interesting methods they employ to overcome this problem is to "produce"
the fossils they cannot find. Piltdown man, which may be the biggest
scandal in the history of science, is a typical example of this method.

The Piltdown Man Scandal
In 1912, a well-known doctor and amateur paleoanthropologist
named Charles Dawson came out with the assertion that he had found a
jawbone and a cranial fragment in a pit in Piltdown, England. Even though
the jawbone was more ape-like, the teeth and the skull were like a man's.
These specimens were labelled the "Piltdown man." Alleged to be 500,000
years old, they were displayed as an absolute proof of human evolution in
several museums. For more than 40 years, many scientific articles were
written on "Piltdown man," many interpretations and drawings were
made, and the fossil was presented as important evidence for human
evolution. No fewer than 500 doctoral theses were written on the subject. 233

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