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To: Virginia-American; CarolinaGuitarman; Dimensio
This is absurd. I asked for *theses*; RW gave a list of already-established scientists who were taken in by the fraud.

No problem at all Virginia

But to go forward (because You guys are so evasive), I must obtain answers from you CarolinaGuitarman and Dimensio to the following questions.

Do you assert that there are no, zero, nada, none, Doctoral thesis based on Pilltdown man?

Do you assert that there are no, zero, nada, none, PHD thesis based on Pilltdown man?

Is it your assertion that number of thesis on Pilltdown man is not exactly 500?

Finally you need to say here what constitutes 'evidence' or 'proof' to existence of thesis based on Pilltdown man would be to you.

Now don't fail to answer the questions. Perhaps you and the other two can see the results of that.

Now guess what, I already know a few of the answers to these questions. I just need these assertions from you, and the other two in order to go forward with on this.

Wolf
2,164 posted on 12/22/2005 9:15:21 AM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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To: RunningWolf; Virginia-American; CarolinaGuitarman; Dimensio
It is great that you bring up Piltdown Man. Piltdown Man was exposed largely in part that it didn't fit in well with other hominid fossils in the evolutionary chain:

From an essay on Piltdown Man at TalkOrigins (emphases my own):

This plausibility did not hold up. During the next two decades there were a number of finds of ancient hominids and near hominids, e.g. Dart's discovery of Australopithecus, the Peking man discoveries, and other Homo erectus and australopithecine finds. Piltdown man did not fit in with the new discoveries.

In July 1953 an international congress of paleontologists, under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, was held in London. The world's fossil men were put up, admired and set down again. But, according to Dr. J.S. Weiner, Piltdown man got barely a mention. He did not fit in. He was a piece of the jig-saw puzzle; the right colour but the wrong shape. It was at the congress that the possibility of fraud dawned on Weiner. Once the possibility had raised it was easy to establish that the finds were a fraud.

The exposure of the Piltdown Man fraud is one of the many great successes of evolutionary theory and the self-correction mechanism of the scientific method in action. If only creationists would learn to dispose of methods and evidence that are determined to be fraudulent, they might make progress as well (but then again, this would inevitably result in their no longer being creationists...)

2,182 posted on 12/22/2005 10:04:44 AM PST by Quark2005 (Divination is NOT science.)
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To: Virginia-American; CarolinaGuitarman; Dimensio; eleni121
eleni121 what is going on?

Obviously this issue (of Doctoral thesis on Pilltdown man) is very impotrant to Virginia, Guitarman, Dimensio. They have spent so much energy asking the answers.

And now it is ready to be delivered, if only they can answer a few things.

Virginia, Guitarman, Dimensio.. I am calling to you. Come back, come back, don't run off. I am ready to give it to you when you can answer these questions..

Do you assert that there are no, zero, nada, none, PHD thesis based on Pilltdown man?

Is it your assertion that number of thesis on Pilltdown man is not exactly 500?

Finally you need to say here what constitutes 'evidence' or 'proof' to existence of thesis based on Pilltdown man would be to you.

Slavering Wolf awaits.
2,639 posted on 12/23/2005 10:22:13 PM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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