Evidence for an Israelite Exodus (?)

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

@beaglelady

@adamjedgar

You know about the 40 year Pilttown man" hoax that secularists fell for right?

Of course I’m aware of it. It went on for too long. But science is self-correcting and eventually it was declared to be a fraud by scientists.

And it was suspected to have issues much earlier.

@paleomalacologist

Although it was about 40 years between the initial “discovery” of the Piltdown material (by someone seeking attention and later shown to be prone to faking archaeological discoveries) and the prominent publication of data showing that it was fake, there were scientific misgivings from the start, and by the time it was publicized as a fake it was already quite clearly not in accord with the actual evidence about human evolution. Carbon-14 dating is an important component of the disproof of Piltdown’s validity. The reality is that Piltdown Man is an example of scientific research making corrections.

@paleomalacologist

For example, one early reason to be skeptical of the Piltdown finds was that one object was a mammoth bone carved into what looked like a cricket bat.