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To: Tokra

"So, I guess the scientists secretly built fake fossils with feathers, wishbone, claws and teeth just to trick everybody?"

That's exactly what happened in the case of Piltdown man. Piltdown was totally constructed by people using bones, etc., to propagate a lie. There are many other examples. Read "Godless"; might learn something


101 posted on 09/22/2006 2:36:06 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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103 posted on 09/22/2006 2:38:06 PM PDT by 2nsdammit (By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
"That's exactly what happened in the case of Piltdown man. Piltdown was totally constructed by people using bones, etc., to propagate a lie."

The piltdown man was not perpetrated by scientists, but was discovered to be a hoax by scientists. It was never accepted by scientists outside of Britain. Why? Because it didn't fit in with the other transitional fossils they already had.

Interesting to note that none of the other fossil finds found since then are hoaxes.

Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Orrorin tugenensis
Ardipithecus ramidus
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus afarensis
Kenyanthropus platyops
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus garhi
Australopithecus aethiopicus
Australopithecus robustus
Australopithecus boisei
Homo habilis
Homo georgicus
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
Homo antecessor
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis

Have I made my point?

"There are many other examples. Read "Godless"; might learn something"

Like learning she repeats false statements without first verifying their validity?

106 posted on 09/22/2006 2:58:25 PM PDT by b_sharp (Objectivity? Objectivity? We don't need no stinkin' objectivity.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
That's exactly what happened in the case of Piltdown man. Piltdown was totally constructed by people using bones, etc., to propagate a lie.

Piltdown was hoax designed to spoof some British anthropologists. They had a particular view of brain/locomotion development, so the hoaxer gave them what they wanted to see.

Anthropologists in other parts of the world saw things differently, and soon began to poke holes in the Piltdown finds.

The only people still using Piltdown for anything are anti-evolutionists trying to pretend that all hominid finds are lies. And that in itself is a blatant lie.

Lets try a test; can you cite a second fraud in hominid evolution?

(Warning: Nebraska Man does not count. That was a mistake by one individual.)

(Hint: the creation "science" websites will lie to you, so don't trust them.)

107 posted on 09/22/2006 2:58:55 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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