Someone wanted to prove evolution so bad that they were willing to create a fraud to do it.
No, it is more likely that Woodward wanted to advance his career.
So here we have a scientist creating a fraud that it took 40 years for *science* to disprove. The only reasonable conclusion is that scientists wanted it to be true so badly that they were not willing to examine it more closely before.
“Science” in the first half of the 20th Century was still in its infancy. Your “reasonable conclusion” is based more on prejudice than on fact.
Once again, When was the last time a religionist was encouraged or even allowed to question the Biblical account of creation?
Excuse me..but aren't we doing that right now, this very second, without consequence? I am afraid that I might get a finger cramp but that pretty much sums up my fears.