The Piltdown Fraud: Fundamentalists' Favorite Fake Fossil

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this standalone episode, I tell the story of the most successful and famous hoax to ever disgrace the field of paleontology, a fraud widely used by Creationists to discredit evolutionary science, but not before providing a robust defense of evolution science and deconstruction of Creationist arguments. Direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. Visit www.airwavemedia.com to find other high-quality podcasts! Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode. Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes! Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts! Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness. Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "Remedy for Melancholy," "Tumult," "Denouement," "Comatose," "Global Warming," "July," and "daedalus." Also featuring: "Leaving Home" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
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0:44.5	lovers. Hello all, Eric Rivenis with the Most Notorious Podcast here. Each week I interview an author
0:51.8	or historian about a historical true crime, tragedy, or disaster.
0:57.1	Subject matter ranges from gunslingers to Gilded Age murder, to gangsters, to fires, to pirates, to wild prison breaks.
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1:23.2	When you hear the word creature, what comes to mind?
1:38.3	We think of an animal, perhaps, a quote-unquote lower form of life, since the word can bear a negative connotation when applied to human beings.
1:47.8	If a person is seen as a creature, it may be because they are seen as a servile tool being used by another, their creature. If you play Dungeons and Dragons, maybe you think of it as any living thing. But do you
1:54.3	think of it as a tacitly religious term? Supporting the notion of creationism, Of the origin of organisms through an act of divine
2:04.9	creation rather than through the natural process of evolution? If we look at the etymology,
2:11.1	creature comes from the Latin verb for creation. We might interpret this only to mean that organisms are created through
2:20.7	reproduction. But the word was long historically associated in Old French with the notion of
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