This week marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Charles Dawson, the man who gave us Eoanthropus dawsoni, better known as Piltdown Man.
A new paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science coincides with the anniversary. The research suggests that a single forger manufactured the apeman-like skull.
Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man (1871) inspired evolutionists to find the assumed missing link between apes and humans.
German scientists found a fossil jaw belonging to an early man dubbed Homo heidelbergensis.
Surely the British could produce something better?
Eoanthropus dawsoni looked like the perfect solution. Some of the best British fossil experts examined the skull in 1915 – and none of them suspected it was a fraud.
Writing in The Conversation, the lead author of the recent paper issues a warning:
“Solving the Piltdown crime is still important now as it stands as a cautionary tale to scientists not to be blinded by preconceived ideas but to remain objective and to subject even their own findings to scientific scrutiny.”
Alas, evolutionists have seldom heeded sound advice. All too often they have seen that what they expected to see.