Why do some Christians on this forum keep posting irrelevant rants about

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AonghasShrugged

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Piltdown Man and "evolution fraud"? After all, from the moment the "Piltdown Man" discovery was announced, scientists of the day kept demanding to see the relevant data and to have an opportunity to inspect the much-hyped find. (The hype came from the media and the "discoverers", not the paleontological scientific community, which kept observing that Piltdown Man made no sense.) Paleontologists' requests were repeatedly refused. Even so, the corrective procedures of the scientific method were inevitable and the hoax was exposed by truth-seeking scientists -- not by the anti-evolution "creation scientists" of the day.

So why is a media sensation of nearly a century ago relevant?

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OPTIONAL HOAXES

And if such a hoax is important, why not also talk about famous "creation science" hoaxes like Malachite Man, the Cardiff Giant, Calaveras Man, the Paluxy River tracks and so many other Young Earth Creationists boondoggles which they have never renounced even though real science (and their fellow YECs in most cases) debunked them long ago? Why the double-standard when Piltdown Man NEVER HAD ANY SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION?
 
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Renata

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You've read about the "Piltdown Chicken", no doubt?
In 1999, National Geographic called the fossil of the "archaeoraptor" a missing link.
It turned out to be a purposely manipulated composite of two fossils.
The hoaxes didn't end with the Piltdown man it seems.

I'd guess this is a big reason why people of many differing philosophies mistrust scientific facts. Most of us are not paleontologists, so where can we get accurate info?
The assurance that the scientific community is "self-correcting" or "self-monitoring" doesn't seem so reassuring when people read about the huge bloopers they make.

You can argue that the press grabs the story and runs with it, before the facts have been completely tested or scrutinized. But it is the institution or researcher which released the info, purposely, in the first place. Ya, we know its "publish or die" in the world of grants and funding and the press reports what will "sell". The researchers are not altogether naive on this point.
 
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RichardS

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The Piltdown skull is the one presented as evidence in the Scopes Monkey Trial, which led to you being brainwashed with this false knowledge in the first place. 150 years w/o proof = invalid.
 
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steveh

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some christian churches keep pumping them full of information which is 100 years or more out of date and the congregtions of such churches believe it is the latest info
 
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