EVOLUTIONS by Jerry Bergman

Author:Jerry Bergman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: creationbookpublishers
Published: 2017-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

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Piltdown discovery site showing Dawson (left) and SmithWoodward searching for more bones.

Source: Illustrated London News, p. 143, 1913.

The teeth were filed down to obliterate obvious orangutan traits, but they still did not resemble human teeth. For example, human teeth normally are worn down faster on the buccal (cheek) side compared to the lingual (tongue) side. Zoologist Bolton Davidheiser added that X-ray analysis of the loose canine tooth found near the Piltdown skull showed the tooth had been filed down so far that its

pulp cavity was exposed, a phenomenon which does not happen as a result of natural wear, and someone had filled the pulp cavity with sand! Besides all this, it was an immature tooth which would not have had time to wear down a great deal. All of this was not only overlooked as evidence that something unnatural had happened, but it was rejected when it was pointed out. A dentist named Lyne pointed out that the canine tooth could not have been worn down naturally, but his “cogent arguments were brushed aside by Woodward.” Professor Woodward let himself be influenced by a Dr. Underwood who “spoke in violent disagreement with Mr. Lyne’s contention of the immaturity of the canine and its paradoxical nature,” and who declared that the wear of the canine was “indubitably natural.”22

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