Volume 1 Lawrence, Kansas July 1961 Number 7
According to the Associated Press of November 1, 1953, the British Museum had news today for the anthropological students, and authors of textbooks on man's evolution.
That all the leading evolutionary scientists were hoaxed by this "find" is evidenced by the fact that in an address before the British Association of Science (September 1931) Professor Harry Fairfield Osborn asserted that the Piltdown skull represented the oldest type of prehistoric man. This find was heralded abroad as full confirmation that man is many thousands of years older than the Bible chronology would prove. If it requires deliberate deception to "prove" God's word untrue, the friends of the Bible need not worry as to the permanence of the old book.
But deception in the field of anthropology is nothing new. Years ago Professor Ernest Haeckel, one of the foremost scientists of the past generation, and who, probably more than any other man, did more to foster the evolutionary theory, admitted to scientific trickery in drawing certain plates in order to prove the evolutionary steps in the "ascent of man." It has been clearly shown that Prof. Haeckel endeavored to prove some of his naturalistic contentions, by drawings which were entirely derived from his own imagination. Fortunately, his drawings were detected as false and exposed; but his exposure has tended to cast doubt on much of the claims of evolutionists as to the origin and antiquity of man.
In numerous cases the scientists have been deceived by their own avid desire to prove evolution. In 1922 a tooth was found in a river bed in Nebraska, and the scientists claimed that it was put to every test know to scientists, and was then hailed as "historical proof" of the existence of a creature in America that was the forerunner of modern man; but later investigations revealed it is nothing but the tooth of a barnyard pig!
When the partial skeleton of the "Neanderthal man" was discovered in a cave near Dusseldorf, Germany, claims were made that this was proof of a prehistoric man dating back 35,1100 years ago; but at Capetown University, South Africa, doctors recently in dissecting the body of a native, found the native had the typical "Boscov" skull of the same type as the Neanderthal man; and so it is apparent that these bones of supposedly prehistoric men, are not as "historic" as they are supposed to be.
Many of our young people attending colleges or universities may become alarmed by "scientific evidence" that contradicts many Biblical statements; but they should take notice that much of this so-called evidence is either doctored, or based on false assumptions that are unproven and unprovable. Some years ago Prof. Hadley, of Yale University was asked, "Is evolution a universal process beginning in the inorganic world, and flowing in a continuous stream through the ages?" He replied, "It is possible that it may be, but it has not been proved, and the proof is very difficult. It is not a universal science, because it is no science at all." May we not be of those who draw back unto prediction by rejecting the Bible, but let us believe unto the saving of our souls.
"The museum said that the right half of the lower jaw, found in a gravel pit some 40 years ago in Piltdown, England, and considered part of a man who lived not less than 50,000 years ago, was a deliberately faked plant. The experts said it isn't old, it isn't the part of a man, but the jaw bone of a very modern ape whose brethren today roam the jungles and zoos. The museum experts said the disclosure clarified very considerably the problem of human evolution. "The hoax appears to have been so entirely unscrupulous and inexplicable as to find no parallel in paleantological research the museum announced. The museum said there is no clue as to who perpetrated this anthropological practical joke.
An amateur anthropologist, Charles Dawson, found the greater part of a human skull—deeply mineralized, and in a strata of the earth which experts said existed thousands of years ago in the early Pleistocene period. Later Dawson and other scholars found the jaw bone which still contained teeth and the sockets of a third. Later another scientist found an upper canine tooth in the same pit at the same earth level. The experts today said the jawbone and the canine tooth were parts of the man whose skull fragments Dawson found, but were not even fossil specimens. Modern fluorine and other tests have revealed the bones were those of a modern ape treated to appear as `fossils', the experts said."