http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028727.cfm
November 4, 2003
Fifty Years Since Piltdown Meltdown
by Keith Peters, Washington, D.C., correspondent
Hoax was designed to prove the theory of evolution.
This month is an important anniversary for evolutionists, but not one they want to remember. It's been 50 years since a hoax that tells us a lot about the lengths many will go to validate a worldview.
It was advertised as one of the links that proved evolution, a discovery of a man-ape called the Piltdown man because he was found in a gravel pit near Piltdown, England. He was displayed proudly in Britain's Natural History Museum for 41 years. But in 1953, scientists announced he was a fraud.
"Somebody had taken the skull of a human, the jaw of an orangutan, filed down the teeth of the orangutan jaw and stained everything to make it look old," explained Ken Ham, president of the creation-science ministry Answers in Genesis.
Dr. Duane Gish, a biological scientist in residence at the Institute for Creation Research, predicts there will be more frauds of this type as society becomes increasingly secularized. He offered advice to anyone who hears reports about new evolutionary discoveries.
"Be completely skeptical of accounts of that kind," he said. "We know that man was not created in the image of an ape. He was created in the image of God, and the overwhelming evidence will certainly support creation."
