Hi DarkStar!
Leaving aside the inaccuracies for the moment, how can you equate a list of things science rejects, such as Nebraska Man and Piltdown Man, with a list of things that Creationists embrace, such as talking snakes, people turning into pillars of salt, and the sun stopping in the sky?
Reviewing your list now...
You remember, stories like the piltdown man, (that was a good one)...
Someone definitely committed fraud in this case. As has already been explained in detail, some suspected fraud from the beginning, and scientists proved it a fraud in the 1950's when the fossils finally became available for detailed study after the death of Woodward.
...and the nebraska man, (almost busted a gut laughing about that one).
With all the information you've been provided, you still think this is an example of scientific fraud?
And lets not forget about Lucy...
Lucy is a genuine
Australopithicus afarensis skeleton.
Then there is my personal favorite, the infamous peppered moths. That one just goes to show that the macroevolution myth believers have a wonderful imagination. Too bad they have such a disdain for true science.
The peppered moth is not an example of macroevolution. It's an example of the influence of environmental changes on allele frequency within a species.
Of course we can never forget the one about the skull that was found in Spain in 1984. It was touted as the oldest known example of man found so far in Eurasia. Unfortunately for the macroevolution myth believing spinmasters, this skull was actually shown to be that of a young donkey. Shades of Pinnochio!
You're referring to Orce Man, identified by a single skull fragment. A couple Internet articles give a year of discovery of 1982, so you might have the year wrong. Anyway, even after all these years there is still no scientific consensus about Orce Man. As one article I read states, normally this much attention wouldn't be given an ambiguous fragment, but in this case it might be the earliest hominid found in Europe. Anyway, there's no fraud here.
Oh, and let's not leave out the beautiful story that was propagated in 1983 where an American anthropologist claimed to have found the collarbone of a prehistoric man, an amazing discovery to be sure, especially when one considers that it actually turned out to be nothing more than the rib bone of a dolphin.
I could find no non-Creationist information on this one. The Creationist accounts say that Dr. Noel Boaz mistakenly identified a dolphin rib as a human collarbone, and the mistake was brought to public attention by Tim White, a paleontologist at UC Berkeley.
No scientist today accepts Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man or Boaz's dolphin bone. Scientists
*do* overwhelmingly accept Lucy, and you've raised no points here that would cast doubt on her authenticity. The Peppered Moth experiments had flaws that probably mean that predation can not be considered as positively identified as the cause of the color changes, but the correlation of color changes with environmental changes is not in doubt. And Orce Man is still in dispute, with some scientists believing it hominid and some not.
What we have here is a record of scientists analyzing and following the evidence. The hominid fossil record is extremely extensive and very genuine. While scientists can understandably disagree about the species of a single skull fragment, there are simply far too many hominid remains that are much more extensive, in some cases fairly complete skeletons, to cast any doubt that they are hominids. Scientists also disagree about how to organize these fossil remains into species, and how these species fall on the human ancestral tree.
Summarizing, the point of the message I quoted was that Creationists accept as true many things for which there is no evidence, which violate common sense or known laws of physics, and which have a fairytale-like nature. You responded as if to trying to prove that scientists do the same, but clearly that is not the case.
--Percy
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