the so called “find” was sold at a great price and was locked away and only plaster casts are now shown as “proof”
Perhaps you could check your facts a little before you make these grand pronouncements.
From Wiki:
The first complete specimen of Archaeopteryx was announced in 1861, only two years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and it became a key piece of evidence in the debate over evolution. Over the years, nine more fossils of Archaeopteryx have surfaced. Despite variation among these fossils, most experts regard all the remains that have been discovered as belonging to a single species, though this is still debated.
If there are so many frauds in paleontology, I challenge you to name five. I'll even spot you the first two: Piltdown Man (actually a hoax) and Archaeoraptor. Can you come up with three more (and no, Nebraska Man does not count; that was a mistaken identification that lasted only a short time before the mistake was straightened out--by scientists). Hint: avoid the cr
Evolution is Satans Big Lie.
No, wrong again. Evolution is a scientific theory based on solid evidence.
I’m taking an anthropology class that’s currently mostly about paleoanthropology and prehistoric archaeology, and a little bit of paleontology, so I think I can name at least three more frauds (not including the two you mentioned):
-The Cardiff Giant
-That Fujimura guy who was planting things in Japan
-The Calaveras Skull in California
-The fake artifacts in the Pachaug Forest
Well, I’m feeling a little more confident about my ability to pass my exam =)
You’d probably enjoy this book I’ve been reading called ‘Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries’ and it has a couple chapters that cover hoaxes but it also gets into debunking or explaining stuff like prehistoric UFO’s and Atlantis. It’s really fascinating and scientifically solid.
And, just on a random interesting note, Darwin only vaguely hinted at human evolution in Origin of Species, and then only in the last sentence. I guess he was expecting too much opposition from the people that wanted to believe that humans are completely special and separate beings than animals (instead of just ‘higher’ animals), or he wanted to hold on to those beliefs himself. And something even more interesting: Darwin wasn’t the first person to propose evolution - Aristotle was. Darwin was the first person to come up with a detailed and reasonable-sounding explanation of the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of evolution.