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Religion Helps Science T o Be Rightly Guided

findings and perpetrating hoaxes. The most notorious of these hoaxes was
the "Piltdown Man" scandal. Unable to discover fossils of the supposedly
half-ape/half-human creatures, which they alleged to have existed,
evolutionists finally decided to produce one themselves. By mounting an
orangutan's jaw onto a human skull, and giving it a dated appearance by
treating it with certain chemicals, for several years they exhibited the
skull in the most famous museum of the world, as a "human ancestor". F.
Clark Howell, an evolutionist himself, describes the detriment this fraud
has caused for science as such:
Piltdown was discovered in 1953 to have been nothing more than an
Ape's jaw placed with a human skull. It was a hoax placed on purpose.
They recognized neither the jaw to be an ape's or the skull to be a
human's. Instead, they declared each part as an in between of ape and
human. They dated it to be 500,000 years old, gave it a name
(Eoanthropus Dawsoni or 'Dawn Man'), and wrote some 500 books on
it. The 'discovery' fooled paleontologists for forty five years. 37
The words of this scientist are truly remarkable. A false piece of "so-
called evidence" "fooled" the scientific community for 40 years. The fact
that 500 books were written about a fraudulent skull is a glaring
indication of effort expended for naught.
The perpetrator of another evolutionary fraud, Ernst Haeckel, not only
confessed to his forgery, but also referred to the distortions committed by
his colleagues in order to perpetuate their various ideologies:
After this compromising confession of "forgery" I should be obliged to
consider myself condemned and annihilated if I had not the
consolation of seeing side by side with me in the prisoners' dock
hundreds of fellow culprits, among them many of the most trusted
observers and most esteemed
biologists. The great majority of all
the diagrams in the best biological

The false skull used in
the Piltdown man hoax.

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