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There is no concrete fossil evidence to
support the "ape-man" image, which is unceasingly indoctrinated by the media and
evolutionist academic circles. With brushes in their hands, evolutionists produce
imaginary creatures, yet the fact that these drawings have no matching fossils constitutes
a serious problem for them. One of the interesting methods they employ to overcome this
problem is to "produce" the fossils they cannot find. The Piltdown Man, the
biggest scandal in the history of science, is a typical example of this method.
Piltdown Man: An Orang-utan
Jaw and a Human Skull! A well-known doctor and also an amateur
paleoanthropologist, Charles Dawson came out with an assertion that he had found a jawbone
and a cranial fragment in a pit in Piltdown, England in 1912. Even though the jawbone was
more ape-like, the teeth and the skull were like a man’s. These specimens were
labeled the "Piltdown Man". Alleged to be 500 thousand years old, they were
displayed as an absolute proof of human evolution in several museums. For more than 40
years, many scientific articles were written on the "Piltdown Man", many
interpretations and drawings were made, and the fossil was presented as an important
evidence of human evolution. No less than five hundred doctoral theses were written on the
subject. (55) The famous American paleoanthropologist Henry Fairfield Osborn
said "...we have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes
and this is an astonishing finding about early man..." while he was visiting the
British Museum in 1935.
(56) In 1949, Kenneth Oakley from the British
Museum’s paleontology department attempted to try the method of "fluorine
testing", a new test used for determining the date of some old fossils. A trial was
made on the fossil of the Piltdown Man. The result was astounding. During the test, it was
realised that the jawbone of the Piltdown Man did not contain any fluorine. This indicated
that it had remained buried no more than a few years. The skull, which contained only a
small amount of fluorine, showed that it was only a few thousand years old. The latest chronological studies made with
the fluorine method have revealed that the skull is only a few thousand years old. It was
determined that the teeth in the jawbone belonging to an orang-utan had been worn down
artificially and that the "primitive" tools discovered with the fossils were
simple imitations that had been sharpened with steel implements. (57) In the detailed analysis completed by Weiner, this forgery was
revealed to the public in 1953. The skull belonged to a 500-year-old man, and the
mandibular bone belonged to a recently dead ape! The teeth were thereafter specially
arranged in an array and added to the jaw and the joints were filled in order to resemble
that of a man. Then all these pieces were stained with potassium dichromate to give them a
dated appearance. These stains began to disappear when dipped in acid. Le Gros Clark, who
was in the team that disclosed the forgery, could not hide his astonishment at this
situation and said that "the evidences of artificial abrasion immediately sprang to
the eye. Indeed so obvious did they seem it may well be asked - how was it that they had
escaped notice before?"
(58) In the wake of all
this, "Piltdown Man" was hurriedly removed from the British Museum where it had
been displayed for more than 40 years. Nebraska Man: A Single Pig
Tooth In 1922, Henry Fairfield Osborn, the
manager of the American Museum of Natural History, declared that he had found a fossil
molar tooth in West Nebraska near Snake Brook belonging to the Pliocene period. This tooth
allegedly bore the common characteristics of both man and ape. Deep scientific arguments
began in which some interpreted this tooth to be of Pithecanthropus erectus while others
claimed it was closer to human beings. This fossil, which aroused extensive debate, was
called the "Nebraska Man". It was also immediately given a "scientific
name": Hesperopithecus haroldcooki. Many authorities gave Osborn their
support. Based on this single tooth, reconstructions of the Nebraska Man’s head and
body were drawn. Moreover, the Nebraska Man was even pictured along with his wife and
children, as a whole family in a natural setting. All of these scenarios were developed from
just one tooth. Evolutionist circles accredited this "ghost man" to such an
extent that when a researcher named William Bryan opposed these biased decisions relying
on a single tooth, he was harshly criticised. In 1927, other parts of the skeleton were
also found. According to these newly-discovered pieces, the tooth belonged neither to a
man nor to an ape. It was realised that it belonged to an extinct species of wild American
pig called prosthennops. William Gregory entitled his article published in Science
magazine where he announced this fault as: "Hesperopithecus: Apparently not an ape
nor a man".
(59) Then all the
drawings of Hesperopithecus haroldcooki and "his family" were hurriedly removed
from evolutionary literature.
Ota Benga: The African Native
Put Into a Cage After Darwin advanced the claim with his
book The Descent of Man that man evolved from ape-like living beings, he started to seek
fossils to support this contention. However, some evolutionists believed that
"half-man half-ape" creatures were to be found not only in the fossil record,
but also alive in various parts of the world. In the early 20th century, these pursuits
for "living transitional links" led to unfortunate incidents, one of the
cruellest of which is the story of a Pygmy by the name of Ota Benga. Ota Benga was captured in 1904 by an
evolutionist researcher in the Congo. In his own tongue, his name meant
"friend". He had a wife and two children. Chained and caged like an animal, he
was taken to the USA where evolutionist scientists displayed him to the public in the St
Louis World Fair along with other ape species and introduced him as "the closest
transitional link to man". Two years later, they took him to the Bronx Zoo in New
York and there they exhibited him under the denomination of "ancient ancestors of
man" along with a few chimpanzees, a gorilla named Dinah, and an orang-utan called
Dohung. Dr William T. Hornaday, the zoo’s evolutionist director gave long speeches on
how proud he was to have this exceptional "transitional form" in his zoo and
treated caged Ota Benga as if he were an ordinary animal. Unable to bear the treatment he
was subjected to, Ota Benga eventually committed suicide. (60) Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man, Ota Benga...
These scandals demonstrate that evolutionist scientists do not hesitate to employ any kind
of unscientific method to prove their theory. Bearing this point in mind, when we look at
the other so-called evidence of the "human evolution" legend, we confront a
similar situation. Here there are a fictional story and an army of volunteers ready to try
everything to verify this story.