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Jonathan Cotton: Was the creator of Sherlock Holmes also the creator of Piltdown Man? Learn about it next on today's Creation Moments. And now, here's our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: In 1912, Charles Dawson announced the discovery of Piltdown Man to the world. Piltdown Man was a half-human, half-apelike creature which was offered as proof that man was nothing more than a glorified ape. Today, everyone knows that Piltdown Man was a fraud. Among a number of theories, there is one that claims the hoaxer to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was well known for his practical jokes. He only lived seven or eight miles from the site where the bones were discovered, and he had visited the site. Doyle was also a doctor who understood human anatomy, chemistry, and anthropology.

In addition, he had access to bones like those which were found. What's more, in Doyle's The Lost World, his character actually talks about faking bones, and Doyle's map of the Lost World looks surprisingly like the Piltdown site and the surrounding area. William Fix, who is not a creationist, argues that no one has yet found one bone to support the idea of human evolution. But, he says, there has been no shortage of those who hype their findings and try to make a name for themselves. Man was made in the image of God, but when we try to contradict this, the result is confusion and even fraud.

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