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To: RunningWolf
We are saying the same thing I think.

Um, No. What you said was:

the biggest names of TOE in England Europe and the USA bought into to it

When in fact (until Piltdown II at least) only a rather small MINORITY of leading evolutionists "bought into it," and its critics included a number of the world's leading anthropologists. (Several of the British scientists supporting it weren't actually experts in human anatomy.)

126 posted on 10/20/2006 6:09:58 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: RunningWolf
And, by the same token, as the 1930s wore on, and genuine hominid fossils accumulated, once again only a small minority of leading evolutionists stuck with Piltdown.

By the time Sir Arthur Smith Woodward wrote The Earliest Englishman in 1948, he was probably one of the last evolutionists on earth who took Piltdown seriously as a potential human ancestor. (Although some others still accepted it as a genuine hominid, it was dismissed as representing some odd side branch of human evolution at best.)

127 posted on 10/20/2006 6:21:16 PM PDT by Stultis
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