[SamuraiScot]

. . . Found next to a skeleton of Piltdown Man?

Couldn't resist. I was just reading about the possible fabricator of the original Missing Link (human and ape bones put together), the French Jesuit Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, in 1908 or so. He is also suspected of being behind the similarly dubious "Pekin Man," whose remains were said to be lost in the War.

A modernist who hated Catholic teaching (and had several mistresses), Teilhard may have hatched the plot to find a transitional species in order to prove that man was descended from apes.

[NicknamedBob]

"... Teilhard may have hatched the plot to find a transitional species in order to prove that man was descended from apes."

An early version of "fake but true"?

I wonder if he and Dan Ra^ther were classmates?

[Kenny Bunk]

Père Chardin, whatever hoaxes he may or may not have pulled off, had nothing to do with "Piltdown Man."

His main thesis was that evolution was not anti-Christian, bu that evolution may have been a mechanism used by a creator.

I'm impressed about the mistresses ... the things you pick up around here!