LOOKING A GIFT PIG IN THE MOUTH!
Nebraska Man - 'One of the most singular and embarrassing incidents in the history of evolutionary science.' In 1922 a solitary molar tooth was found in Nebraska. 'First rank palaeontologists, anthropologists and anatomists examined the cusp pattern, and all agreed with its discoverer that the tooth belonged to an ancient ape-man: a "missing link" of tremendous importance' Distinguished English anatomist Sir Grafton Elliot Smith commissioned a painting which was given a two page spread in the Illustrated London News. It showed Mr & Mrs Nebraska to be a well muscled couple with sloping brows - and all this based on a single tooth!!
In 1927 a team of palaeontologists returned to the Nebraska site where the tooth had been discovered. 'To their joy, weathering had exposed parts of a jaw and skeleton on the precise spot. Eagerly, they brushed away dust and sand until the ancient fossil emerged to tell its truth - the infamous molar had once belonged to an extinct pig!'  Encyclopedia of Evolution - Richard Milner
                     Fishy Business
Ernst Haeckel, Professor of Zoology at Jena, Germany, was a zealous disciple of Darwin's theory of evolution but such was his zeal to promote the evolutionary cause he was prepared to commit fraud upon fraud in order that the cause might be furthered. He is perhaps best known for his theory of 'recapitulation' which stated that the development of the human embryo repeats its alleged evolutionary history. For example, the embryo passes through a fish stage with the neck creases being likened to the gills of a fish, and the 'tail' of the foetus is said to be a parallel with the tail of a monkey. It is alleged that this demonstrates a common ancestry. Haeckel fraudulently doctored drawings to support his theory, but Professor of Anatomy, Wilhelm His, discovered the deception and exposed him. Haeckel was called before a university court where he admitted he had doctored his evidence.
Sadly, although the theory of recapitulation holds no water today and has been scientifically discredited it is still included in some science books. For example, Raymond Hawkey in his book 'Evolution', produced with the collaboration of the British Museum of Natural History, has on the back cover the following statement. "Like many other animals, human beings retrace much of their evolutionary past in the womb .... By the time it (the human foetus) is 28 days old it resembles our earliest vertebrate ancestor, the fish. Like a fish it has .... what appear to be four gill slits."
Creation ex nihilo Vol.18:2 - 1996
Two More Banana Skins
While browsing through a drawer containing primate fossils at the Yale Museum, Elwyn Simons came upon two upper jaw fragments collected from the Siwalik Hills in India in 1932.
He concluded that the two pieces (alleged to be 14 million years