Piltdown Man was a hoax . . . tests proved that its skull belonged to a 600-year-old woman, and its jaw to a 500-year-old orangutan from the East Indies.
The famed "Nebraska Man" was built from one tooth, which was later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig.
"Java Man" was found in the early 20th Century, and was nothing more than a piece of skull, a fragment of a thigh bone and three molar teeth. The rest came from the deeply fertile imaginations of plaster of Paris workers.
"Heidelberg Man" came from a jawbone, a large chin section and a few teeth. Most scientists reject the jawbone because it's similar to that of modem man.
Upon closer examination a panel of experts concluded the fossil called Archaeoraptor was a composite consisting of the tail of a tiny dinosaur and bits of at least one other animal that had been cleverly glued together.
"Orce Man" was once hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe, but later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey.
The Haeckel embryo sequence was one of the most popular and familiar pieces of evidence used to bolster the theory of evolution – reproduced for decades in most high school and college biology textbooks – is fraudulent, and has been known to be fraudulent for nearly 100 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.
There is no such thing as a "simple cell". In actual fact, ALL cells are extremely complicated - even the "earliest". Scientists have hardly begun to unravel the inner workings of any cell.
Cro-Magnon Man. These were also clearly humans. Some were over six feet tall, with a cranial capacity somewhat larger than our own. They were normal people, not monkeys, and they provide no evidence of transition from ape to man.
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