Is Unbelief Possible?

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tor: I think you will still find, as "scientists" technically argued Java ape man and Piltdown hoaxes spewed as 'FACT' in grade school for me...
and argue Neanderthal is a diseased bone possibility in curvature findings still to date...

Normally I wouldn't bother with this, but you've entered into my wheelhouse here and, more importantly, I hate to see such presumptuous disregard for science, scientists, and evolution, so... you get the correction spiel.

Do you happen to know anything at all about Piltdown man? I rather doubt it; I get the feeling that you heard it was proven fraudulent and decided you knew all you needed to about it, and therefore the science surrounding it. What you probably didn't know, in that case, was that the American Museum of Natural History displayed it as a mix of human and ape fossils- this turned out to be correct- when it was initially discovered, and not as a missing link. Given the lack of scientific tests that could properly verify this, the Piltdown fossils were put into storage until they were brought out after such tests were available and proven to be fraudulent, but even as early as 1913 there were scientists reporting that Piltdown was a combination of ape and human fossils, and the correct prediction that it was a human and orangutan fossil set was first made in 1923. Given this, I find it very hard to believe that you were taught that Piltdown was a factual example of a missing link, unless you're over ninety years old, or making this up. But the science was self correcting for the Piltdown fossil's incorrect nature decades before whatever schooling you went through, so you're just wrong here.

I don't even know what you're talking about with Java man; from the outset the Java fossils were considered incomplete and hence less than useful, but the current consensus is that they are hominid fossils, so... again, just wrong.

The absolute best you could say is that your grade school biology textbooks were oversimplified on account of your age at the time, but that hardly reflects on the science involved, given that this was way ahead of your education before you even had it.

I don't mean to derail the thread, just... I dislike having falsehoods portrayed as facts. Do a little research before you speak, next time.