[Virginia-American]

...One should consider the case of the "Piltdown man" that was successfully used for many decades to win converts to evolution, before it was acknowledged to be a fraud. Evolutionists are still trying to live that one down...

Could you please provide a source for the bolded claim. I've never heard anything of the sort before.

[ChessExpert]

O.K. I'll get on that. But I'm going to watch "Survivor" first. So that's a delay of three hours. I might get to it tomorrow. Maybe someone else can post first.

[ChessExpert]

I found three books in my limited library that refer to the Piltdown Man. In each case, I went to the index, then zeroed in on the reference with the greatest number of pages. I'll give one reference from each book.

Phillip E. Johnson's Darwin on Trial has a brief but good comment on pg82.

Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution devotes a section, the Piltdown fraud, on pgs 217-218.

Cremo and Thompson's The Hidden History or the Human Race, devotes a chapter, The Piltdown Showdown, pgs 177-190.

The story is the same. The Piltdown Man was a significant missing link on display in the British Museum of Natural History from 1912 to 1953. It is generally agreed that this was intentional fraud. Some have spun it as the self-correcting nature of science. Some have spun it as the tip of the iceberg, a visible case of calculated fraud, over an invisible mountain of biased research.