falsifications of Evolution

There is no concrete fossil evidence to support the man-monkey image, which is constantly touted by the media and evolutionist academic circles. Brush in hand, evolutionists produce imaginary creatures; the fact that these drawings do not match the fossils, however, constitutes a serious problem for them. An interesting method used in order to overcome this problem is the production of fossils that they cannot find. The Piltdown Man, the biggest scandal in the history of science, ‘A typical example of this method.

The Piltdown Man: an orang-utan mandible and a human skull

A well-known amateur paleoanthropologist and doctor, Charles Dawson, in 1912 claimed to have discovered a jawbone and a skull fragment in a quarry near Piltdown, in England. Although the jaw was very similar to that of a monkey, the teeth and skull were human. These samples were classified as “Piltdown man”. After claiming that they dated back to five hundred thousand years ago, were doomed, in several museums, as an absolute proof of human evolution. For more than forty years, many scientific articles dedicated to this discovery were written and many interpretations and drawings were produced, while the fossil was presented as an important testimony that corroborated the evolutionist theory. No less than five hundred doctoral theses on the subject were compiled. The famous American paleoanthropologist Henry Fairfield Osborn said, during a visit to the British Museum in 1935: “… we must be reminded that Nature is full of paradoxes and this is an amazing finding with regard to early humans…”

Jaw of orangutang

 

Based on the reconstructed skull, numerous drawings and sculptures are made and numerous articles written. The original skull is on display in the British Museum.

Past 40 years since its discovery, the Piltdown fossil turns out to be a deception devised by a group of researchers.

In 1949, Kenneth Oakley, of the paleontology department of the British Museum, attempted to apply the method of “test del fluoro”, a new system for determining the date of some ancient fossils, on the Piltdown Man samples. The result was astounding. During the test it was found that the jaw bone did not contain any trace of fluoride. This meant that he had been buried no more than a few years. The skull, which revealed only a minimal amount of fluoride, proved to date back a few thousand years, as has been confirmed by the most recent studies.

It was determined that the teeth on the jawbone, belonging to an orang-utan, they had been artificially worn out, while the tools “primitive” discovered with fossils were mere imitations, affilate con utensili di ferro.2 Con la dettagliata analisi condotta a termine da Weiner nel 1953, this fraud was made known to the public. The skull belonged to a man who lived five hundred years ago, while the jawbone to a recently dead monkey! The teeth had been, then, arranged in order and added to the jaw in such a way as to imitate those of man. All these pieces were then treated with potassium dichromate to give it an old look. These stains began to dissolve in contact with the acid. The Fat Clark, who was part of the team that discovered the fraud, he couldn't hide his astonishment and said: “the evidence of artificial abrasions immediately jumped to the eye. Indeed, they seemed so obvious that one could wonder why they hadn't been discovered earlier.” Tomorrow, Piltdown Man was quickly removed from the British Museum, where it had been exhibited for more than forty years.

The Man from Nebraska: a pig's tooth

In 1922, Henry Fairfield Osborn, direttore dell’American Museum of Natural History, claimed to have discovered a fossil molar tooth in western Nebraska, near Snake Brooks, dating back to the Pliocene. This tooth presumably had the common characteristics of man and ape. This was the subject of profound scientific discussions, in which some claimed that it was a tooth of Pithecanthropus erectus, while others claimed that it was closer to that of a human being. The fossil, which raised extensive debates, it was said “Nebraska man”. He was also given a “scientific name”: Hesperopithecus haroldcooki.

Many authorities gave their support to Osborn. On the basis of this single tooth, reconstructions of the head and body of the Nebraska Man were performed, who was even depicted together with his wife and children, like an entire family in its natural setting.

All of these scenarios developed from a single tooth. The evolutionist circles corroborated this to such an extent “ghost man” that, when a researcher named William Bryan opposed the tendentious decision to rely on a single tooth, was harshly criticized 1927 other parts of the skeleton were discovered. The new findings revealed that the tooth belonged neither to a man nor to an ape, but to an extinct species of wild American pig called prosthennops. William Gregory titled one of his articles, published in the journal Science, where he announced the error: “Hesperopithecus: in reality neither ape nor a man”.

It followed that all the representations of Hesperopithecus haroldcooki and the “his family” they were abruptly removed from all evolutionist literature.

The illustration on the right, published in the Illustrated London News of 24 July 1922, it was made on the basis of a single tooth. Evolutionists, however, they were very disappointed when it was revealed that this tooth belonged neither to an ape-like creature nor to a man, but rather to an extinct species of pig.

Ota Benga: the African in a cage

After advancing, in The origin of man, the idea that man had evolved from an ape-like living being, Darwin devoted himself to the search for fossils that validated the veracity of his assertions. Some evolutionists, however, they believed that such creatures could be found not only in fossils, but, still living, in various parts of the world. At the beginning of the twentieth century, searches for “living transition rings” led to unfortunate accidents, the cruelest of which is that of the pygmy Ota Benga.

OTA BENGA: “The pygmy at the zoo”.

Ota Benga was captured in 1904 by an evolutionary researcher in the Congo. In his language, his name means “friend”. He had a wife and two children. Chained and caged like an animal, was brought to the USA, where some scientists exhibited it to the public at the St. Louis, along with some species of monkeys. It was presented as “the transitional bond closest to man“.

Two years after, he was transferred to the Bronx Zoo in New York, where he was exhibited as one of the “oldest ancestors of man”, in the company of some chimpanzees, of a gorilla named Dinah and an orang-utan called Dohung. Dr. William T. Hornaday, the evolutionary director of the zoo, expressed his pride in hosting this exceptional one in long speeches “transitional form” in his zoo and treated Ota Benga as if he were an ordinary caged animal. Not being able to endure any longer the treatment he was subjected to, Ota Benga eventually committed suicide.

The Piltdown Man, the Man from Nebraska, Ota Benga… These scandals show that evolutionary scientists have not hesitated to use any kind of anti-scientific methods in order to prove their theory.. Of this we must remember, when we consider the other so-called proofs of the myth of human evolution. In fact, there is an army of volunteers ready to do anything to ascertain the veracity of these fictional stories.

 

1. David Pilbeam, "Rearranging Our Family Tree", Nature, June 1978, p. 40.
2. Earnest A. Hooton, Up From The Ape, New York: McMillan, 1931, p . 332.