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THE PILTDOWN MAN
THE PILTDOWN MAN
cently deceased human. They named it Piltdown
Man and exhibited this forgery for the next 40 years. HOAX
This hoax fossil, displayed in the British Museum, HOAX
was hurriedly removed once the deception in-

volved came to light.
Nebraska Man was the subject of countless imaginary illustra-
tions and reconstructions—all based on a single tooth! Looking at
just that single tooth, evolutionists claimed that this had come
from an intermediate-form fossil that combined human and ape
features. But this tooth was later determined to belong to a wild

boar. Similarly, the fossils that countless museum visitors en-
counter as supposed "evidence of evolution" are the product of
just such fraudulent logic.
The evolutionist paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson, of
F FALSE
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the American Museum of Natural History, admits the intermedi-
ate-form problem confronting evolutionists:
This is true of all thirty-two orders of mammals . . . The earliest

and most primitive known members of every order already
have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approxi-
mately continuous sequence from one order to another known.
In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the

origin of the order is speculative and much disputed. . .

This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to
mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long

been noted by paleontologists. It is true of almost all classes of
animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate . . . it is true of the
classes, and of the major animal phyla, and it is apparently also
true of analogous categories of plants. 6

Despite their total lack of evidence, evolutionists still main-
tain that "Living things evolved." This claim involves millions of
species that cannot possibly have existed, much less emerged. Yet
evolutionists maintain that they developed during the course of a

process—evolution—that cannot be explained. The impos-
sibility of protein emerging spontaneously in
a mindless environment has been proven.
Yet according to evolution, such a mira-
cle did take place, and protein came
into existence as the result of chance.

Piltdown Man, portrayed for 43 years as
highly significant evidence confirming evolu-
tion, turned out to be a hoax. In 1953, investi-
gations into the skull revealed that Piltdown
Man was no fossil, but a forgery produced by
combining human and orangutan bones.

Right: Excavations at Piltdown, birthplace of
the Piltdown Man scandal

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