What is truly shocking is not just that people in the early 20th century believed this but people now do with all the tools and resources available to properly date things.
Regards. If you are skeptical yet, just Google Piltdown man or better yet Piltdown Man Hoax. You can read for days.
Creationists right here on FR insist that archaeologists and paleontologists don't know what they're doing, their methods are faulty, their measurements meaningless. So how do you know the skull is 1000 years old? The number of times creationists right here at FR have rejected scientific methods of dating fossils is countless. Is there some other method they have?
What is truly shocking is not just that people in the early 20th century believed this but people now do with all the tools and resources available to properly date things.
I don't get it. Here you appear to accept "all the tools and resources available to properly date things," and yet, when those tools and resources give results that support the TOE, somehow there's a problem.
Regards. If you are skeptical yet, just Google Piltdown man or better yet Piltdown Man Hoax. You can read for days.
I'm skeptical that you have a reason for rejecting Piltdown Man that doesn't involve the same tools and resources that support the TOE, as I stated above.
You're not really bringing up Piltdown are you?
Piltdown proves that Scientific rigor will eventually identify frauds (and that one was a simple one for money).
Religion OTOH has no such rigor. Just ask the cash-masters at the "Church" of Scientology.
You really don't want to go down the road of hoaxes. There have been more hoaxes successfully perpetrated in the name if religion than ever in science -- and science tells the truth about its hoaxes.
Piltdown is an example of successful science.