Page 193 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

skull was human and 500
years old, and the jaw-
bone belonged to a re-
cently dead orangutan!
The teeth had been
specially added and or-
dered later in order to
give the impression they
belonged to a human
being, and the joints had
been filed. Then all the
parts had been stained
with potassium-dichro-
mate to age them—stains
The Piltdown Man forgery
that disappeared when
the bones were dipped in
acid. Le Gros Clark, one of
the team who uncovered the forgery, was unable to conceal his aston-
ishment: “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 before?” 190 At this, Piltdown Man, which
had been on display for nearly 40 years, was hurriedly removed from
the British Museum.

The “Nebraska Man” Scandal
The “Nebraska Man” Scandal
In 1922 Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum
of Natural History, announced that a fossil molar from the Pliocene
Period had been discovered near Snake Valley in Western Nebraska.
This tooth, it was claimed, bore features common to both humans and
apes. Before long, in-depth scientific debates on the subject had begun.
Some people interpreted this tooth as Pithecanthropus erectus, and others