The 10 Things You Should Know About the Creation vs. Evolution Debate by Ron Rhodes Page A

evolutionists, and to the great embarrassment of scholars like Woodward and Osborn, Piltdown man
turned out to be a hoax!29 Close examination in 1953 revealed
that the skull looked relatively normal for a human, but the jaw
looked primitive and apelike.30 This led some scholars to doubt
the association between the two. Tests then revealed that the
jawbone was that of a female orangutan, and it had been intentionally stained in order to make it appear to match the dark
brown human skull .3' Further, the teeth on the lower (orangutan) jaw had quite obviously been filed down to match the
teeth on the upper jaw (the file marks were visible)." Still further,
researcher Rod Caird notes that the skull and lower jaw had
been "placed at the appropriate level in the gravel pit alongside
imported mammal fossils from the correct period in order to
substantiate the dating." Hence, Caird concludes, this was "an
absolutely deliberate and careful fraud. "33
    What is highly disturbing is that Piltdown man was first
discovered in 1912, but was not exposed as a fraud until 1953over four decades later. Some observers are understandably baffled
at the apparent ineptness of the scientists involved. The issue of concern: What took you so long? The perpetrator of this fraud
has not been firmly established.34

    The Piltdown man fraud is not the only such fraud to deceive
scientists (and the public). Researcher James Perloff warns:
    Those who think such mistakes no longer occur
need only consider the archaeoraptor, promoted in a
10-page color spread in the November 1999 National
Geographic as the "true missing link" between dinosaurs
and birds. The fossil was displayed at National
Geographic's Explorers Hall and viewed by over
100,000 people. However, it too turned out to be a
fake-someone had simply glued together fragments
of bird and dinosaur fossils 35
Peking Man
    Davidson Bolack discovered Peking man in 1912 near
Peking, China. The discovery consisted of over a hundred teeth,
thirty skulls, and some tools. Again, many people hoped that
this would be a significant ape-man discovery. Mysteriously,
however, by the end of World War II all the skulls disappeared.
Meanwhile, Bolack died of a heart attack.
    Many scholars who have studied the discovery have now
concluded that the skulls and teeth represent the remains of
monkeys or baboons that had been killed and eaten by lime
quarry workers.36 The tools discovered alongside the skulls and
teeth were apparently used by the workers to extract the brains
of these monkeys so they could be eaten. (Monkey brains were
considered a delicacy. )37 In any event, Peking man is certainly
not a transitional ape-man.
Nebraska Man
    Geologist Harold Cook discovered Nebraska man in western Nebraska in 1922. Actually, Cook only discovered a single
solitary tooth. just a tooth! Yet paleontologists claimed this discovery was a link in man's evolution. A London newspaper
hired an artist to draw a picture of the one-million-year-old apeman that belonged to the tooth. The artist also drew "Nebraska mom."" The male ape-man was portrayed holding a club,
while the ape-woman was portrayed gathering roots. This toothto-drawing extrapolation truly smacks of desperation.

    Unfortunately for evolutionists, this discovery did not turn
out to be the evidence they were hoping for. Harold Cook
discovered another identical tooth-this time attached to a skull
and skeleton. But it wasn't the skull and skeleton of an ape-man
but rather an extinct wild pig.39 So much for Nebraska man.
    Related to this, I must confess that a spark of indignation
rises in my heart when I read about the Scopes Evolution Trial
in Dayton, Tennessee in July 1925. In this trial, a defender of
the Bible named William Jennings Bryan was ridiculed and
berated for his lack of knowledge regarding this amazing discovery of Nebraska man. And all the while-though yet unknown
to all present-it was just a pig's tooth!
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