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DARWINISM REFUTED

While visiting the British Museum in 1921, leading American
paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn said "We have to be reminded over
and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes" and proclaimed Piltdown
"a discovery of transcendent importance to the prehistory of man." 234
In 1949, Kenneth Oakley, from the British Museum's Paleontology
Department, attempted to use "fluorine testing," a new test used for
determining the date of fossils. A trial was made on the fossil of Piltdown
man. The result was astonishing. During the test, it was realized that the
jawbone of Piltdown man did not contain any fluorine. This indicated that
it had remained buried no more than a few years. The skull, which
contained only a small amount of fluorine, showed that it was only a few
thousand years old.
It was determined that the teeth in the jawbone, belonging to an
orangutan, had been worn down artificially and that the "primitive" tools
discovered with the fossils were simple imitations that had been
sharpened with steel implements. In the detailed analysis completed by
Joseph Weiner, this forgery was revealed to the public in 1953. The skull
belonged to a 500-year-old man, and the jaw bone belonged to a recently
deceased ape! The teeth had been specially arranged in a particular way
and added to the jaw, and the molar surfaces were filed in order to
resemble those of a man. Then all these pieces were stained with

For 40 years, Piltdown man
fossil was accepted as the
greatest evidence for
human evolution.
Evolutionist fossil
experts claimed to have
found a lot of
transitional features in
the skull. It only
emerged later that the
fossil was a fake.

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