it took 40 years to expose Piltdown man as a fake This is only half the truth - let me tell you the full story . Creationists imply that America is the only country capable of doing science - so why did American scientists not bust this wide open sooner? Well, it was discovered in England for a start , and in 1912 as well, so think about that . How much did the world know about Homonid evolution in 1912? Two years later Ww1 started Britain and the Empire were at war - U boats prowled the Atlantic , London got bombed by Zeppelins. Americas stayed out of Europe till the Lusitania got sunk , and the Brits had other things to concern themselves with till peacetime came Between the wars, there was no radio carbon dating, or any modern technology to use to date the Piltdown skull . However a slew of findings did seem to diminish the importance of the find. A perfect missing link right here in England - the public loved it but sceptical scientists were already showing that it didnt fit an already emerging pattern that suggested that Piltdown man came later than first thought Again, in 39 , war was again declared- but there was an unexpected spin off from The Bomb . Scientists knew enough about radioactivity to discover half lives - but radiocarbon dating was first mooted in 48 . It was another recent discovery , though, that nailed Piltdown man We still wanted to know exacty WHEN our first Englishman lived , and geologists wanted to date the strata he came from. The Fluoride Absorption Test showed conclusively that we were dealing with something way too recent Radio metric dating showed it was the wrong sort of rock A really recent find suddenly became a deliberate fraud instead Had the fraud been presented today , it would have been exposed in weeks - but science, even in its infancy , developed enough know how to dismiss it in less than 50 years . Creationists using Genesis still cant pin an acceptable date on anything
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 09:48:52 +0000
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