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lution, some evolutionists have ventured to manufacture their own. These
efforts, which have even been included in encyclopaedias under the head-
ing "evolution forgeries", are the most telling indication that the theory of
evolution is an ideology and a philosophy that evolutionists are hard put
to defend. Two of the most egregious and notorious of these forgeries are
described below.

Piltdown Man
Charles Dawson, a well-known doctor and amateur paleoanthropolo-
gist, came forth with a claim that he had found a jawbone and a cranial
fragment in a pit in the area of Piltdown, England, in 1912. Although the
skull was human-like, the jawbone was distinctly simian. These specimens
were christened the "Piltdown Man".
Alleged to be 500 thousand years old,
they were displayed as absolute
proofs of human evolution. For more
than 40 years, many scientific articles
were written on the "Piltdown Man",
many interpretations and drawings
were made and the fossil was pre-
sented as crucial evidence of human
evolution.
In 1949, scientists examined the False fossil: Piltdown Man
fossil once more and concluded that
the "fossil" was a deliberate forgery consisting of a human skull and the
jawbone of an orang-utan.
Using the fluorine dating method, investigators discovered that the skull
was only a few thousand years old. The teeth in the jawbone, which
belonged to an orang-utan, had been artificially worn down and the "prim-
itive" tools that had conveniently accompanied the fossils were crude forg-
eries that had been sharpened with steel implements. In the detailed analy-
sis completed by Oakley, Weiner and Clark, they revealed this forgery to
the public in 1953. The skull belonged to a 500-year-old man, and the

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