Human Ancestral Frauds
Haekel’s Forged Embryos
Fake Dino-bird Archaeoraptor
Miscellaneous Fakes and Frauds
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In an attempt to further
their careers and justify the claims that evolution is a
legitimate theory, many scientists have fraudulently deceived
the world by planting or reconstructing fossils which they
would claim to be authentic finds. The most widely published evolution
fraud was committed in China in 1999, and published in in
the National Geographic
 Human Ancestral Frauds
Piltdown man: Found in a
gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912, this fossil was considered
by some sources to be the second most important fossil proving the
evolution of man—until it was found to be a complete forgery 41
years later. The skull was found to be of modern age. The
fragments had been chemically stained to give the appearance of
age, and the teeth had been filed down!
 Nebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in
Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and
monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was
protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig.
Java man: Initially
discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found
of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth
and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original
skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed
the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close
to his "missing link"). (source: Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That
Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville,
1998], pp.50-52)
Orce man: Found in the
southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest
fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later
officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably
came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull
belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million
years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent
what he would have looked like. (source: "Skull fragment may not
be human", Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)
Neanderthal: Still
synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were
found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like,
stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests
that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped
appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are
now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and
even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered
right arm had been amputated above the elbow. (source: "Upgrading
Neanderthal Man", Time Magazine, May 17, 1971, Vol. 97, No.
20)
Human Ancestor Fraud -
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Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny?
Haekel’s
faked embryonic drawings
 The theory of embryonic recapitulation asserts
that the human fetus goes through various stages of its
evolutionary history as it develops. Ernst Haeckel proposed this
theory in the late 1860’s, promoting Darwin’s theory of evolution
in Germany. He made detailed drawings of the embryonic development
of eight different embryos in three stages of development, to
bolster his claim. His work was hailed as a great development in
the understanding of human evolution. A few years later his
drawings were shown to have been fabricated, and the data
manufactured. He blamed the artist for the discrepancies, without
admitting that he was the artist. (source: Russell Grigg, "Fraud
Rediscovered", Creation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.49-51)
Haeckel’ Forgeries Creationary
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 Archaeoraptor Liaoningensis:
Fake
Dinosaur-bird ancestor
The most recent and perhaps
the most infamous evolution frauds was committed in China and
published in 1999 in the journal National Geographic 196:98-107,
November 1999. Dinosaur bones were put together with the bones of
a newer species of bird and they tried to pass it off as a very
important new evolutionary intermediate.
"Feathers For T-Rex?",
Christopher P. Sloan, National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 196, No.
5, November, 1999, pp.99,100,105
Interesting Quote
- "National Geographic has reached an all-time low for
engaging in sensationalistic, unsubstantiated, tabloid
journalism" Storrs L. Olson, Smithsonian
Institution
Archaeoraptor
Liaoningensis Creationary Links
 News
Articles Published on The Archaeoraptor Liaoningensis
Discovery
Miscellaneous Fakes and Frauds
Brontosaurus: One of the best
known dinosaurs in books and museums for the past hundred years,
brontosaurus never really existed. The dinosaur’s skeleton was
found with the head missing. To complete it, a skull found three
or four miles away was added. No one knew this for years. The body
actually belonged to a species of Diplodocus and the head was from
an Apatosaurus. (source: Paul S. Taylor, The Great Dinosaur
Mystery and the Bible, [Chariot Victor Publishing, 1989],
pp.12-13)
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