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The Lit Round Table
Episode 4: Unearthing Hoaxes

The Lit Round Table

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 43:10


Today the Sibnerds are diving into hoaxes (well, two of them at least)! Josef took an archeology class this last term called “Frauds, Myths, and Legends,” and that was the inspiration for today's episode. We're specifically talking about the Cardiff Giant and the Man of Piltdown. Did you learn anything new? Do you have a favorite hoax from history? Join us for our Read Along of Star Wars: Queen's Shadow by: E.K. Johnston! Anna is watching: - The Pitt - Delicious in Dungeon - Futurama - Wish Dragon - Invincible - Yellowjackets - The Handmaid's Tale - Hotel Transylvania 2 - My Neighbor Totoro - Ponyo - Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution - Pokemon: Indigo League - The Secret World of Arriety - Andor, season 2 - Thunderbolts* - The Last of Us, season 2 Anna is reading: - The Poppy War by: R.F. Kuang - The Power of Now by: Eckhart Tolle Anna is playing: - Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - Pokemon: Snap - Pokemon: Sleep Josef is watching: - Sakamoto Days - Castlevania - Wheel of Time, season 3 - The Last of Us, season 2 - Andor, season 2 - Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith - Thunderbolts* Josef is reading: - The Poppy War by: R.F. Kuang - Ship of Magic by: Robin Hobb Josef is playing: - Baldur's Gate 3 - Stardew Valley - D & D - Betrayal at House on the Hill - Castle Panic! Don't forget, you can get bonus content by joining our Patreon! Find us on Twitter: @litround Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LitRoundTable Find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelitroundtable Art: Kris Easler: https://www.kriseasler.com/

The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast
EP.111 Keeper of the Greens - Josh Smith (Piltdown Golf Club)

The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 67:38


Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearest ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠J⁠ohn Deere dealer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠deere.com.au⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Smith is a young passionate greenkeeper currently working at Piltdown Golf Club in the South East of England. Prior to his current stint at Piltdown, Josh spent time at Glenelg Golf Club in Adelaide here in Australia working with the on course team led by Superintendent Tim Warren.Josh's greenkeeping career story so far is one that's on a steep incline. Searching far and wide to take in as much information and knowledge as possible Josh is always looking to learn as much as he can from as many different parts of the world as possible. Oh and did I mention that Josh is currently at TPC Sawgrass working on course right now preparing for The Players Championship tournament!Join me as Josh and I chew the fat about greenkeeping all over the place and preparing for different tournaments of all tours.You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!People and places mentioned in this podcast:Piltdown Golf ClubGlenelg Golf ClubEast Sussex National Golf ClubTandridge Golf ClubWentworth ClubJCB Golf & Country ClubTPC SawgrassThe Players ChampionshipBMW PGA Championship

Kottke Ride Home
Vast Reserve of Hydrogen Found, Weird Wednesday - Fish Getting Busy, Googly Eye Sculptures, "Trekkie" Plate Issues, and a Festive Car. Plus, TDIH - Piltdown Skull Hoax

Kottke Ride Home

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 20:31


A vast reserve of geologic hydrogen was found. Plus, Weird Wednesday has fish getting busy after an earthquake, sculptures with googly eyes, the "Trekkie" license plate that was causing trouble, and a festive car. Also, on This Day in History, we look back at the Piltdown skull hoax. Massive new energy source discovered hiding under Earth's surface | BBC Science Focus Magazine Northern California earthquake prompts an endangered Death Valley fish species to get busy | Phys.org Stop sticking googly eyes on sculptures says US city - BBC Newsround Woman ticketed thousands of dollars because license matched numbers on ‘Star Trek' ship | WBAY - ABC 2 Look: Driver stopped in Wyoming for covering car in Christmas lights - UPI.com How the Piltdown Man skull became the greatest hoax in anthropology - History Skills Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science's most famous hoaxes | Science | AAAS How to Solve Human Evolution's Greatest Hoax | Smithsonian Sponsored by Factor - use promo code coolstuff50 to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping Factormeals.com/50coolstuff Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Das Kalenderblatt
18.12.1912: Piltdown-Fund unterwandert menschlichen Stammbaum

Das Kalenderblatt

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 3:25


War der Piltdown-Mensch tatsächlich das lang gesuchte Bindeglied zwischen Mensch und Affe? So jedenfalls wurde sein Schädel der Fachwelt präsentiert. Erst Jahrzehnte später flog der Evolutions-Schwindel auf: Die Überreste waren zusammenmontiert aus einem Menschenschädel und dem Unterkiefer eines Orang-Utans.

L'Heure H
Piltdown : Le crâne du mensonge

L'Heure H

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 42:09


En 1912, Charles Dawson présente à la Société géologique de Londres des fragments de crâne et de mâchoire trouvés à Piltdown, affirmant avoir découvert le "chaînon manquant" entre l'homme et le singe. Soutenu par le célèbre géologue Smith Woodward du British Museum, la découverte est saluée comme révolutionnaire, et la nouvelle espèce est nommée Eoanthropus dawsoni. Cependant, des scientifiques émettent des doutes sur la compatibilité entre la mâchoire simiesque et le crâne humain. Malgré ces critiques, d'autres fragments sont découverts sur le site, renforçant la crédibilité de Dawson. Ce n'est qu'en 1953 que des tests modernes révèlent la supercherie : les os sont un assemblage d'un crâne humain médiéval et d'une mâchoire d'orang-outan, tous deux vieillis artificiellement. L'homme de Piltdown est une fraude, mais l'identité du faussaire reste un mystère, bien que Dawson soit le principal suspect. Merci pour votre écoute Vous aimez l'Heure H, mais connaissez-vous La Mini Heure H https://audmns.com/YagLLiK , une version pour toute la famille.Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Intéressés par l'histoire ? Vous pourriez également aimer nos autres podcasts : Un jour dans l'Histoire : https://audmns.com/gXJWXoQL'Histoire Continue: https://audmns.com/kSbpELwAinsi que nos séries historiques :Chili, le Pays de mes Histoires : https://audmns.com/XHbnevhD-Day : https://audmns.com/JWRdPYIJoséphine Baker : https://audmns.com/wCfhoEwLa folle histoire de l'aviation : https://audmns.com/xAWjyWCLes Jeux Olympiques, l'étonnant miroir de notre Histoire : https://audmns.com/ZEIihzZMarguerite, la Voix d'une Résistante : https://audmns.com/zFDehnENapoléon, le crépuscule de l'Aigle : https://audmns.com/DcdnIUnUn Jour dans le Sport : https://audmns.com/xXlkHMHSous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppvVous aimez les histoires racontées par Jean-Louis Lahaye ? Connaissez-vous ces podcast?Sous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppv36 Quai des orfèvres : https://audmns.com/eUxNxyFHistoire Criminelle, les enquêtes de Scotland Yard : https://audmns.com/ZuEwXVOUn Crime, une Histoire https://audmns.com/NIhhXpYN'oubliez pas de vous y abonner pour ne rien manquer.Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

WorldAroundEwe's podcast
World's Strangest Crimes Chapter 25 - Digging Up The Past

WorldAroundEwe's podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 32:32


I have covered this one on History Homos in more detail in an episode I did with William, you can find it on my feed or their feed. So I thought as a way of advertising the Patreon this might be a good one as it gives a little more colour to the episode I did about The Piltdown Man in the past.   You can find me on Patreon here - www.Patreon.com/WorldAroundEwe

The Rest Is History
483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man

The Rest Is History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2024 52:21


In Sussex, in 1912, men quarrying in a gravel pit near Piltdown village turned up a human skull. According to Charles Dawson, a lawyer and amateur archeologist with a remarkable track record for finding ancient treasures, it belonged to a palaeolithic man, possibly millions of years old, and was therefore the earliest trace of mankind ever found in England. Greater still, Piltdown man as he came to be known, seemed to be the ‘missing link' between apes and men. The discovery inflamed and delighted British society, confirming and buttressing dearly held beliefs about the evolution of modern Europeans, and radically transforming understandings of the origins of humanity. In the wake of the find and the widespread corroboration of its authenticity by some of the best academics of the age, further digs were conducted in the area, which unearthed even more wondrous discoveries - a jawbone, primitive tools, and strangest of all, a cricket bat; perhaps the first hint that all was not as it seemed…was the greatest discovery of all time nothing more than an audacious and extraordinarily skilful hoax? And if so, who was the culprit in this grand mystery?  Join Tom and Dominic, as they describe the most mystifying archaeological discovery in English history, and one of the most unscrupulous tricks of all time, revealing as they do the truth behind the history of mankind. _______ *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York.  *The Rest Is History LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall* Tom and Dominic, accompanied by a live orchestra, take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history's greatest composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Viced Rhino: The Podcast
AiG Canada is Lying for Clicks!

Viced Rhino: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 43:58


Today, Calvin Smith from Answers in Genesis Canada gives us a "debunking" of ALL the best proof of evolution in just 12 minutes! Or so the title of the video would suggest. Which is weird, given that he doesn't even bring up anything more recent than the 1920s.Cards:This ONE TRICK will fool EVOLUTIONISTS!:https://youtu.be/p30Jzz1FiUIIs it human? Ape? Both? Neither?: https://youtu.be/G1KDnYlJrJ0Evidence for Evolution - Embryology:https://youtu.be/T8ccR9GhmA0Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/26ntv4cfSources:Genesis 2:17—“You Shall Surely Die” (Answers in Genesis): https://tinyurl.com/228y47v3Was Satan the Actual Serpent in the Garden? (Answers in Genesis): https://tinyurl.com/2by8qttgWhen did Neanderthals and modern humans diverge?: https://tinyurl.com/2y8h9d7yThe contribution of Neanderthal introgression to modern human traits: https://tinyurl.com/23vvgxjkFacial ontogeny in Neanderthals and modern humans: https://tinyurl.com/2arduypeThe reputed fossil man of the Neanderthal: https://tinyurl.com/2y7znbwsThe Neandertals and Modern Human Origins: https://tinyurl.com/27vpapj3Small pterosaurs and dinosaurs from the Uncompahgre fauna (Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation: ?Tithonian), Late Jurassic, western Colorado: https://tinyurl.com/2crgunkoLate Cretaceous neornithine from Europe illuminates the origins of crown birds: https://tinyurl.com/2akdslq2Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods: https://tinyurl.com/2fngztgtPictures of evolution and charges of fraud: Ernst Haeckel's embryological illustrations: https://tinyurl.com/2cjxb6pfEvidence for a vestigial pinna-orienting system in humans: https://tinyurl.com/27d9jx62Persistent unilateral nictitating membrane in a 9-year-old girl: A rare case report: https://tinyurl.com/24a93nb6Pearly penile papules: 10.1136/sti.73.2.137https://tinyurl.com/2co5l6e6Sexual selection targets cetacean pelvic bones: https://tinyurl.com/28h5n47oNew genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man': https://tinyurl.com/2cdaa5kzLucy's back: Reassessment of fossils associated with the A.L. 288-1 vertebral column: https://tinyurl.com/2xm9kapzA Righteous Lie? (Answers in Genesis): https://tinyurl.com/ktutcdaAll my various links can be found here:http://links.vicedrhino.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-the-podcast--4623273/support.

Podcast de Font de Misteris
FONT DE MISTERIS-T12P63- Fraus i verins- Programa 557| IB3 Ràdio

Podcast de Font de Misteris

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 59:42


#AlaCartaIB3| Ja pots gaudir del programa 12x63 (edició 557) de Font de Misteris. Per començar aquest programa 557 ho hem fet parlant d'una història fascinant. Sabeu qui és Marie Lafarge, el personatge històric en el qual pot estar basada l'obra de Madame Bovary? I quina relació pot tenir amb les nostres illes? Després en Chema ha fet una petit aclariment damunt l'home de Piltdown. Què s'amaga en aquesta història? Al Contes i Rondalles amb na Irene Font hem conegut la història anomenada "La Torre de los Encantados" del llibre "Historia y Leyendas" de Victor Balaguer. I finalment hem parlat d'espiritisme de la mà d'en Borja Rigo. #FontdeMisterisIB3

#WeAreChristChurch
Piltdown, Hoaxes, & The Lost World

#WeAreChristChurch

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 23:00


a discussion of evolution, the missing link and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Historical Blindness
The Piltdown Fraud: Fundamentalists' Favorite Fake Fossil

Historical Blindness

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 49:22


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 advertising@airwavemedia.com. 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

DiscoScienza di Andrea Bellati
Un falso clamoroso e una mandria di Bufale

DiscoScienza di Andrea Bellati

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2023 14:35


Terra piatta, invasioni aliene, complotti, 5G, scie chimiche… Le bufale corrono sulla rete da quando esistono i social network. Eppure non sono invenzioni moderne. Una tra le bufale più famose della storia riguarda il ritrovamento di un fossile eccezionale. Ne ho parlato con Claudio Michelizza di Bufale.net Le fonti. Perchè si crede ai complotti. Qualche bufala storica. Uomo di Piltdown. Come funzionano le bufale. Tuba Waddle di Audionautix è un brano concesso in uso tramite licenza Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artista: http://audionautix.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Relative Disasters
The 1912 Piltdown Man Hoax (Episode 99)

Relative Disasters

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 40:55


In 1912, English geologists and archaeologists were buzzing over the discovery of an amazing set of human remains recovered from a gravel pit outside the village of Piltdown. Amateur archeologist Charles Dawson had uncovered what looked to be Darwin's "Missing Link", the proof of human evolution. Thought to be 600,000 years old, Dawson's find - a fossilized human skull and a jawbone that looked much like an ape's - was immediately controversial and fascinating. On this episode, we're talking gravel, lost teeth, the long con, and why you should always get an expert to vouch for you. Sources for this episode include: "The Piltdown Man Hoax: Case Closed" by M. Russell, 2012 "Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science's most famous hoaxes", by M. Price for Science magazine, 2016 "Solving the Piltdown Man Scientific Fraud" by I. De Groot for Scientific American, 2016 "The Problem of Piltdown Man", by M. Subramanian for Distillations, 2023 "Note on the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus Dawsoni )" by A. Smith Woodward for The Geological Magazine, 1913

Podcast di Palazzo Ducale di Genova
La Storia in Piazza "La frode di Piltdown e la forza paziente della scienza"

Podcast di Palazzo Ducale di Genova

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2023 46:43


The Secret Teachings
TST 3/1/23 - Mermaid Oil

The Secret Teachings

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2023 120:01


The Piltdown Man, perpetrated by Charles Dawson in 1912, was hardcore academic gospel until new technology in the 1950s proved it to be a hoax - one manufactured to prove the ‘missing link' was English. Scientists in Japan have recently reported that one of many ‘mermaids', or Ningyo, found in the county were actually a sophisticated forgery from hundred of years ago. They were manufactured to convince people of the mystical creature's existence and possibly to sell health elixirs since, like the Unicorn, Ningyos are thought to possess magical powers. Other hoaxes carried out by charlatans today are no less a scam even if based on very real, or possibly real, things - consider all the fake alien, insider, and cryptid stories. As with mythology there is usually a basis for the fantastic in reality. When Europeans first saw the Flamingo, their reports were seen as fantastic stories of a cryptid creature. Sailors witnessing large squid told partly true stories of the kraken and when a women was in the ocean half under and half above the water she was therefore seen as half human and half fish - a mermaid. There is much more to myths, fairytales, and even hoaxes than absolutisms.

Professor English
Intermediate: WE study this article then practice asking and answering questions in spoken English

Professor English

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 11:31


This article is about hoax (A story that is a lie- usually for the entertainment of the person telling the story) Here is a copy of the article: In the early 20th century, scientists were keen to provide some evidence that would prove the link between early man and apes. In 1912, it seemed the evidence had been found in Piltdown England- when Charles Dawson dug up a human skull with an ape-like jaw. For more than 30 years, everyone believed that this skull known as Piltdown man was genuine but in 1953 a team of researchers discovered that it was in fact a fake, made from an ancient human skull any modern ape jaw . We read the article and then ask answer question about the article in typical spoken English. We practice English as it is spoken along with English pronunciation.

Science History Podcast
Episode 63. Paleoanthropology: Evan Hadingham

Science History Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2023 77:04


Certain fields of science attract broad interest because of what they tell us about humanity, and no field does this more directly than paleoanthropology. Today we explore the history of paleoanthropology with a focus on Louis and Mary Leakey, who made key discoveries at an inflection point of our understanding of human evolution. With us to discuss this history is Evan Hadingham. Evanis the Senior Science Editor of the award-winning PBS series NOVA. Today we discuss his new book, Discovering Us, Fifty Great Discoveries in Human Origins, published in partnership with the Leakey Foundation in 2021.

Screens of the Stone Age
Episode 43: Horror Express (1972)

Screens of the Stone Age

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2023 51:40


Horror Express (1972) tells the tale of an anthropologist who discovers a frozen hominin in China which, unbeknownst to him, is possessed by a telepathic extraterrestrial life form. It's basically The Thing on a train. Ross was so excited when he discovered this one that he couldn't wait until Halloween. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Optography - How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person's Last Sight: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-forensic-scientists-once-tried-see-dead-persons-last-sight-180959157/ Early calculations of the age of Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth#Early_calculationsHow the human brain gets its wrinkles: https://www.livescience.com/47421-human-brain-wrinkles.htmlDmanisi – the first humans outside Africa: https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-frail-small-brained-people-who-first-trekked-out-africaThe history of human origin studies (Including Java Man, the Piltdown hoax, and the Taung Child): https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-010-0248-7

Screens of the Stone Age
Episode 43: Horror Express (1972)

Screens of the Stone Age

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2023 51:41


Horror Express (1972) tells the tale of an anthropologist who discovers a frozen hominin in China which, unbeknownst to him, is possessed by a telepathic extraterrestrial life form. It's basically The Thing on a train. Ross was so excited when he discovered this one that he couldn't wait until Halloween. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Optography – How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person's Last Sight: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-forensic-scientists-once-tried-see-dead-persons-last-sight-180959157/ Early calculations of the age of Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth#Early_calculations How the human brain gets its wrinkles: https://www.livescience.com/47421-human-brain-wrinkles.html Dmanisi – the first humans outside Africa: https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-frail-small-brained-people-who-first-trekked-out-africa The history of human origin studies (Including Java Man, the Piltdown hoax, and the Taung Child): https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-010-0248-7

Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan

This episode we look at some of the physical evidence from this period.  In particular, since we are talking about the sovereign known as Ankan Tenno, we will look at a glass bowl, said to have come from his tomb, which appears to have made its way all the way from Sassanid Persia to Japan between the 5th and 6th centuries CE.  Along the way we'll take a brief look at the route that such an item may have taken to travel across the Eurasian continent all the way to Japan. For more on this episode, check out https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-79 Rough Transcript: Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua, and this is Episode 79:  Ankan's Glass Bowl. We are currently in the early part of the 6th century.  Last episode was our New Year's wrapup, but just before that we talked about the reign of Magari no Ōye, aka Ohine, aka Ankan Tennō.   According to the Chronicles, he was the eldest son of Wohodo, aka Keitai Tennō, coming to the throne in 534.  For all of the various Miyake, or Royal Grannaries, that he granted, his reign only lasted about two years, coming to an unfortunate end in the 12th month of 535.  The Chronicles claim that Ohine was 70 years old when he died, which would seem to indicate he was born when his father, Wohodo, was only 13 years of age.  That seems rather young, but not impossibly so. It is said that Ankan Tennō was buried on the hill of Takaya, in the area of Furuichi.  And that is where my personal interest in him and his short reign might end, if not for a glass bowl that caught my eye in the Tokyo National Museum. Specifically, it was the Heiseikan, which is where the Tokyo National Museum hosts special exhibitions, but it also hosts a regular exhibition on Japanese archaeology.  In fact, if you ever get the chance, I highly recommend checking it out.  I mean, let's be honest, the Tokyo National Museum is one of my favorite places to visit when I'm in Tokyo.  I think there is always something new—or at least something old that I find I'm taking a second look at. The Japanese archaeology section of the Heiseikan covers from the earliest stone tools through the Jomon, Yayoi, Kofun, and up to about the Nara period.  They have originals or replicas of many items that we've talked about on the podcast, including the gold seal of King Na of Wa, the Suda Hachiman mirror, and the swords from Eta Funayama and Inariyama kofun, which mention Wakatakiru no Ōkimi, generally thought to be the sovereign known as Yuuryaku Tennō.  They also have one of the large iron tate, or shields, on loan from Isonokami Shrine, and lots of bronze mirrors and various types of haniwa. Amongst this treasure trove of archaeological artifacts, one thing caught my eye from early on.  It is a small, glass bowl, round in shape, impressed throughout with a series of round indentations, almost like a giant golf ball.  Dark brown streaks crisscross the bowl, where it has been broken and put back together at some point in the past.  According to the placard, this Juuyo Bunkazai, or Important Cultural Property, is dated to about the 6th century, was produced somewhere in West Asia, and it is said to have come from the tomb of none other than Ankan Tennō himself. This has always intrigued me.  First and foremost there is the question of provenance—while there are plenty of tombs that have been opened over the years, generally speaking the tombs of the imperial family, especially those identified as belonging to reigning sovereigns, have been off limits to most archaeological investigations.  So how is it that we have artifacts identified with the tomb of Ankan Tennō, if that is the case? The second question, which almost trumps the first, is just how did a glass bowl from west Asia make it all the way to Japan in the 6th century?  Of course, Japan and northeast Asia in general were not strangers to glassmaking—glass beads have a long history both on the Korean peninsula and in the archipelago, including the molds used to make them.  However, it is one thing to melt glass and pour it into molds, similar to working with cast bronze.  These bowls, however, appear to be something different.  They were definitely foreign, and, as we shall see, they had made quite the journey. So let's take a look and see if we can't answer both of these questions, and maybe learn a little bit more about the world of 6th century Japan along the way. To start with, let's look at the provenance of this glass bowl.  Provenance is important—there are numerous stories of famous “finds” that turned out to be fakes, or else items planted by someone who wanted to get their name out there.  Archaeology—and its close cousin, paleontology—can get extremely competitive, and if you don't believe me just look up the Bone Wars of the late 19th century.  Other names that come to mind:  The infamous Piltdown man, the Cardiff Giant, and someone we mentioned in one of our first episodes, Fujimura Shin'ichi, who was accused of salting digs to try to claim human habitation in Japan going back hundreds of thousands of years. This is further complicated by the fact that, in many cases, the situation behind a given find is not necessarily well documented.  There are Edo period examples of Jomon pottery, or haniwa, that were found, but whose actual origins have been lost to time.  Then there are things like the seal of King Na of Wa, which is said to have been discovered by a farmer, devoid of the context that would help to otherwise clear the questions that continue to surround such an object.  On top of this, there are plenty of tombs that have been worn down over the ages—where wind and water have eroded the soil, leaving only the giant stone bones, or perhaps washing burial goods into nearby fields or otherwise displacing them. So what is the story with the tomb of Ankan Tennō, and this glass bowl? To answer this, let's first look at the tomb attributed to Ankan Tennō.  The Nihon Shoki tells us in the 8th century that this tomb was located at Takaya, in the area of Furuichi.  This claim is later repeated by the Engi Shiki in the 10th century.  Theoretically, the compilers of both of these works had some idea of where this was, but in the hundreds of years since then, a lot has happened.  Japan has seen numerous governments, as well as war, famine, natural disaster, and more.  At one point, members of the royal household were selling off calligraphy just to pay for the upkeep of the court, and while the giant kofun no doubt continued to be prominent features for locals in the surrounding areas, the civilian and military governments of the intervening centuries had little to no budget to spare for their upkeep.  Records were lost, as were many details. Towards the end of the Edo period, and into the early Meiji, a resurgence in interest in the royal, or Imperial, family and their ancient mausoleums caused people to investigate the texts and attempt to identify mausoleums for each of the sovereigns, as well as other notable figures, in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki.  Given that many of those figures are likely fictional or legendary individuals, one can see how this may be problematic.  And yet, the list that eventually emerged has become the current list of kofun protected by the Imperial Household Agency as imperial mausolea. Based on what we know, today, some of these official associations seem obviously questionable.  Some of them, for instance, are not even keyhole shaped tombs—for instance, some are circular, or round tombs, where the claim is often made that the other parts of the tomb were eroded or washed away.  Still others engender their own controversy, such as who, exactly, is buried in Daisen-ryō, the largest kofun, claimed to be the resting place of Ōsazaki no Mikoto, aka Nintoku Tennō.  Some people, however, claim that it is actually the sovereign Woasatsuma Wakugo, aka Ingyō Tennō, who is buried there, instead.  What is the truth?  Well, without opening up the main tomb, who is to say, and even then it is possible that any evidence may have already been lost to the acidic soils of the archipelago, which are hardly kind to organic matter. By the way, quick divergence, here—if you look up information on Daisen-ryō, aka Daisen Kofun, you may notice that there are drawings of a grave, including a coffin, associated with it.  That might get you thinking, as I did at one point, that Daisen kofun had already been opened, but it turns out that was a grave on the slopes of the square end of the kofun, and not from the main, circular burial mound.  Theoretically this may have been an important consort, or perhaps offspring or close relative of the main individual interred in the kofun, but most likely it is not for the person for whom the giant mound was actually erected.  So, yes, Daisen kofun remains unopened, at least as far as we know. As for the kofun identified for Ankan Tennō, today that is the tomb known as Furuichi Tsukiyama Kofun, aka Takaya Tsukiyama Kofun.  While the connection to Ankan Tennō may be somewhat unclear, the kofun has had its own colorful history, in a way.  Now most of the reports I could find, from about '92 up to 2022, place this kofun, which is a keyhole shaped kofun, in the correct time period—about the early to mid-6th century, matching up nicely with a 534 to 535 date for the reign given to Ankan Tennō.  But what is fascinating is the history around the 15th to 16th centuries.  It was just after the Ounin War, in 1479, when Hatakeyama Yoshihiro decided to build a castle here, placing the honmaru, the main enclosure, around the kofun, apparently incorporating the kofun and its moats into the castle design.  The castle, known as Takaya Castle, would eventually fall to Oda Nobunaga's forces in 1575, and most of the surrounding area was burned down in the fighting, bringing the kofun's life as a castle to an end. Some of the old earthworks still exist, however, and excavations in the area have helped determine the shape of the old castle, though there still have not been any fulsome excavations of the mound that I have found.  This makes sense as the kofun is designated as belonging to a member of the imperial lineage. There are, however, other keyhole shaped kofun from around the early 6th century that are also found in the same area, which also could be considered royal mausolea, and would seem to fit the bill just as well as this particular tomb.  In addition, there are details in the Chronicles, such as the fact that Magari no Ohine, aka Ankan Tennō, was supposedly buried with his wife and his younger sister.  This is, however, contradicted by records like the 10th century Engi Shiki, where two tombs are identified, one for Ankan Tennō and one for his wife, Kasuga no Yamada, so either the Chronicles got it wrong, or there were already problems with tomb identification just two centuries later.  So we still aren't entirely sure that this is Ankan Tennō's tomb. But at least we know that the glass bowl came from a 6th century kingly tomb, even if that tomb was only later identified as belonging to Ankan Tennō, right? Well, not so fast. The provenance on the bowl is a bit more tricky than that.  You see, the bowl itself came to light in 1950, when a private individual in Fuse, Ōsaka invited visiting scholar Ishida Mosaku to take a look.  According to his report at the time, the bowl was in a black lacquered box and wrapped in a special cloth, with a written inscription that indicated that the bowl had been donated to a temple in Furuichi named Sairin-ji. There are documents from the late Edo period indicating that various items were donated to Sairin-ji temple between the 16th to the 18th centuries, including quote-unquote “utensils” said to have been washed out of the tomb believed to be that of Ankan Tennō.  Ishida Mosaku and other scholars immediately connected this glass bowl with one or more of those accounts.  They were encouraged by the fact that there is a similar bowl found in the Shōsōin, an 8th century repository at Tōdai-ji temple, in Nara, which houses numerous artifacts donated on behalf of Shōmu Tennō.  Despite the gulf of time between them—two hundred years between the 6th and 8th centuries—this was explained away in the same way that Han dynasty mirrors, made in about the 3rd century, continued to show up in burials for many hundreds of years afterwards, likewise passed down as familial heirlooms. Still, the method of its discovery, the paucity of direct evidence, and the lack of any direct connection with where it came from leaves us wondering—did this bowl really come from the tomb of Ankan Tennō?  Even moreso, did it come from a 6th century tomb at all?  Could it not have come from some other tomb? We could tie ourselves up in knots around this question, and I would note that if you look carefully at the Tokyo National Museum's own accounting of the object they do mention that it is quote-unquote “possibly” from the tomb of Ankan Tennō. What does seem clear, however, is that its manufacture was not in Japan.  Indeed, however it came to our small group of islands on the northeastern edge of the Eurasian continent, it had quite the journey, because it does appear to be genuinely from the Middle East—specifically from around the time of the Sassanian or Sassanid empire, the first Iranian empire, centered on the area of modern Iran. And it isn't the only one.  First off, of course, there is the 8th century bowl in the Shousoin I just mentioned, but there are also examples of broken glass found on Okinoshima, an island deep in the middle of the strait between Kyushu and the Korean peninsula, which has a long history as a sacred site, mentioned in the Nihon Shoki, and attached to the Munakata shrine in modern Fukuoka.  Both Okinoshima and the Shōsōin—at least as part of the larger Nara cultural area—are on the UNESCO register of World Heritage sites, along with the Mozu-Furuichi kofun group, of which the Takaya Tsukiyama kofun is one.. Okinoshima is a literal treasure trove for archaeologists. However, its location and status have made it difficult to fully explore.  The island is still an active sacred site, and so investigations are balanced with respect for local tradition.  The lone occupant of the island is a Shinto priest, one of about two dozen who rotate spending 10 days out at the island, tending the sacred site.  Women are still not allowed, and for centuries, one day a year they allowed up to 200 men on the island after they had purified themselves in the ocean around the island.  Since then, they have also opened up to researchers, as well as military and media, at least in some instances. The island is apparently littered with offerings.  Investigations have demonstrated that this island has been in use since at least the 4th century.  As a sacred site, guarding the strait between Kyushu and the Korean peninsula, fishermen and sailors of all kinds would make journeys to the island and leave offerings of one kind or another, and many of them are still there: clay vessels, swords, iron ingots, bronze mirrors, and more.  The island's location, which really is in the middle of the straits, and not truly convenient to any of the regular trading routes, means that it has never really been much of a strategic site, just a religious one, and one that had various religious taboos, so it hasn't undergone the centuries of farming and building that have occurred elsewhere. Offerings are scattered in various places, often scattered around or under boulders and large rocks that were perhaps seen as particularly worthy of devotion.  Since researchers have been allowed in, over 80,000 treasures have been found and catalogued.  Among those artifacts that have been brought back is glass, including glass from Sassanid Persia.  Pieces of broken glass bowls, like the one said to have come from Ankan's tomb, as well as what appear to be beads made from broken glass pieces, have been recovered over the years, once more indicating their presence in the trade routes to the mainland, although when, exactly, they came over can be a little more difficult to place. That might be helped by two other glass artifacts, also found in the archaeological exhibit of the Heiseikan in the Tokyo National Museum: a glass bowl and dish discovered at Niizawa Senzuka kofun Number 126, in Kashihara city, in Nara. This burial is believed to date to the latter half of the 5th century, and included an iron sword, numerous gold fittings and jewelry, and even an ancient clothes iron, which at the time looked like a small frying pan, where you could put hot coals or similar items in the pan and use the flat bottom to help iron out wrinkles in cloth.  Alongside all of this were also discovered two glass vessels.  One was a dark, cobalt-blue plate, with a stand and very shallow conical shape.  The other was a round glass bowl with an outwardly flared lip.  Around the smooth sides, the glass has been marked with three rows of circular dots that go all the way around, not dissimilar from the indentations in the Ankan and Shōsōin glass bowls. All of these, again, are believed to have come from Sassanid Persia, modern Iran, and regardless of the provenance of the Ankan bowl, it seems that we have clear evidence that Sassanian glassworks were making their way to Japan.  But how?  How did something like glass—hardly known for being the most robust of materials—make it all the way from Sassanid Persia to Yamato between the 5th and 8th centuries? To start with, let's look at Sassanid Persia and its glass. Sassanid Persia—aka Sassanid or Sassanian Iran—is the name given to the empire that replaced the Parthian empire, and is generally agreed to have been founded sometime in the early 3rd century.  The name “Sassanid” refers to the legendary dynastic founder, Sassan, though the first historical sovereign appears to be Ardeshir I, who helped put the empire on the map. Ardeshir I called his empire “Eran sahr”, and it is often known as an Iranian or Persian empire, based on their ties to Pars and the use of the Middle Persian, or Farsi, language.   For those not already well aware, Farsi is one of several Iranian languages, though over the years many of the various Iranian speaking peoples would often be classified as “Persian” in English literature.  That said, there is quite a diversity of Iranian languages and people who speak them, including Farsi, Pashto, Dari, Tajik, and the ancient Sogdian language, which I'm sure we'll touch on more given their importance in the ancient silk road trade.  Because of the ease with which historical “Iranian” ethnic groups can be conflated with the modern state, I am going to largely stick with the term Persian, here, but just be aware that the two words are often, though not always, interchangeable. The Sassanid dynasty claimed a link to the older Achaemenid dynasty, and over the subsequent five centuries of their rule they extended their borders, dominating the area between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, eastward to much of modern Afghanistan and Pakistan, running right up to the Hindu Kush and the Pamir mountains.  They held sway over much of Central Asia, including the area of Transoxiana.  With that they had access to both the sea routes, south of India and the overland routes through the Tianshan mountains and the northern and southern routes around the great Taklamakan desert – so, basically, any trade passing between Central and East Asia would pass through Sassanid territory. The Persian empire of the Sassanids was pre-Islamic—Islamic Arab armies would not arrive until about the 7th century, eventually bringing an end to the Sassanid dynasty.  Until that point, the Persian empire was largely Zoroastrian, an Iranian religion based around fire temples, restored after the defeat of the Parthians, where eternal flames were kept burning day and night as part of their ritual practice.  The Sassanids inherited a Persian culture in an area that had been dominated by the Parthians, and before that the Hellenistic Seleucids, and their western edge bordered with the Roman empire.  Rome's establishment in the first century BCE coincided with the invention of glassblowing techniques, and by the time of the Sassanid Empire these techniques seem to have been well established in the region. Sassanid glass decorated with patterns of ground, cut, and polished hollow facets—much like what we see in the examples known in the Japanese islands—comes from about the 5th century onward.  Prior to that, the Sassanian taste seems to have been for slightly less extravagant vessels, with straight or slightly rounded walls. Sassanid glass was dispersed in many different directions along their many trade routes across the Eurasian continent, and archaeologists have been able to identify glass from this region not just by its shape, but by the various physical properties based on the formulas and various raw materials used to make the glass. As for the trip to Japan, this was most likely through the overland routes.  And so the glass would have been sold to merchants who would take it up through Transoxiana, through passes between the Pamirs and the Tianshan mountains, and then through a series of oasis towns and city-states until it reached Dunhuang, on the edge of the ethnic Han sphere of influence. For a majority of this route, the glass was likely carried by Sogdians, another Iranian speaking people from the region of Transoxiana.  Often simply lumped in with the rest of the Iranian speaking world as “Persians”, Sogdians had their own cultural identity, and the area of Sogdia is known to have existed since at least the ancient Achaemenid dynasty.  From the 4th to the 8th century, Sogdian traders plied the sands of Central Eurasia, setting up a network of communities along what would come to be known as the Silk Road. It is along this route that the glassware, likely packed in straw or some other protective material, was carried on the backs of horses, camels, and people along a journey of several thousand kilometers, eventually coming to the fractious edge of the ethnic Han sphere.  Whether it was these same Sogdian traders that then made their way to the ocean and upon boats out to the Japanese islands is unknown, but it is not hard imagining crates being transferred from merchant to merchant, east, to the Korean Peninsula, and eventually across the sea. The overland route from Sogdia is one of the more well-known—and well-worn—routes on what we modernly know as the Silk Road, and it's very much worth taking the time here to give a brief history of how this conduit between Western Asia/Europe and Eastern Asia developed over the centuries.  One of the main crossroads of this area is the Tarim Basin, the area that, today, forms much of Western China, with the Tianshan mountains in the north and the Kunlun Mountains, on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, to the south.  In between is a large desert, the Taklamakan desert, which may have once been a vast inland sea.  Even by the Han dynasty, a vast saltwater body known as the Puchang Sea existed in its easternmost regions.  Comparable to some of the largest of the Great Lakes, and fed by glacial run-off, the lake eventually dwindled to become the salt-marshes around Lop Nur.  And yet, researchers still find prominent boat burials out in what otherwise seems to be the middle of the desert. Around the Tarim basin were various cultures, often centered on oases at the base of the mountains.  Runoff from melting ice and snow in the mountains meant a regular supply of water, and by following the mountains one could navigate from watering hole to watering hole, creating a natural roadway through the arid lands.  In the middle of the Basin, however, is the great Taklamakan desert, and even during the Han dynasty it was a formidable and almost unpassable wasteland.  One could wander the sands for days or weeks with no water and no indication of direction other than the punishing sun overhead.  It is hardly a nice place and remains largely unpopulated, even today. While there were various cultures and city-states around the oasis towns, the first major power that we know held sway, at least over the northern route, were the Xiongnu.  Based in the area of modern Mongolia, the Xiongnu swept down during the Qin and early Han dynasties, displacing or conquering various people. An early exploration of the Tarim basin and its surroundings was conducted by the Han dynasty diplomat, Zhang Qian.  Zhang Qian secretly entered Xiongnu territory with the goal of reaching the Yuezhi—a nomadic group that had been one of those displaced by the Xiongnu.  The Yuezhi had been kicked out of their lands in the Gansu region and moved all the way to the Ferghana valley, in modern Tajikistan, a part of the region known as Transoxiana.  Although Zhang Qian was captured and spent 10 years in service to the Xiongnu, he never forgot his mission and eventually made his way to the Yuezhi.  By that time, however, the Yuezhi had settled in to their new life, and they weren't looking for revenge. While Zhang Qian's news may have been somewhat disappointing for the Han court, what was perhaps more important was the intelligence he brought back concerning the routes through the Tarim basin, and the various people there, as well as lands beyond.  The Han dynasty continued to assert itself in the area they called the “Western Regions”, and General Ban Chao would eventually be sent to defeat the Xiongnu and loosen their hold in the region, opening up the area all the way to modern Kashgar.  Ban Chao would even send an emissary, Gan Ying, to try to make the journey all the way to the Roman empire, known to the Han court as “Daqin”, using the name of the former Qin dynasty as a sign of respect for what they had heard.  However, Gan Ying only made it as far as the land of Anxi—the name given to Parthia—where he was told that to make it to Rome, or Daqin, would require crossing the ocean on a voyage that could take months or even years.  Hearing this, Gan Ying decided to turn back and report on what he knew. Of course if he actually made it to the Persian Gulf—or even to the Black Sea, as some claim—Gan Ying would have been much closer to Rome than the accounts lead us to believe. It is generally thought that he was being deliberately mislead by Parthian merchants who felt they might be cut out if Rome and the Han Dynasty formed more direct relations.  Silks from East Asia, along with other products, were already a lucrative opportunity for middlemen across the trade routes, and nobody wanted to be cut out of that position if they could help it. That said, the Parthians and, following them the Sassanid Persians, continued to maintain relationships with dynasties at the other end of what we know as the Silk Road, at least when they could.  The Sassanid Persians, when they came to power, were known to the various northern and southern dynasties as Bosi—possibly pronounced something like Puasie, at the time, no doubt their attempt to render the term “Parsi”.  We know of numerous missions in both directions between various dynasties, and Sassanian coins are regularly found the south of modern China. And so we can see that even in the first and second centuries, Eurasia was much more connected than one might otherwise believe.  Goods would travel from oasis town to oasis town, and be sold in markets, where they might just be picked up by another merchant.  Starting in the fourth century, the Sogdian merchants began to really make their own presence known along these trade routes.  They would set up enclaves in various towns, and merchants would travel from Sogdian enclave to Sogdian enclave with letters of recommendation, as well as personal letters for members of the community, setting up their own early postal service.  This allowed the Sogdian traders to coordinate activities and kept them abreast of the latest news.     I'm not sure we have a clear indication how long this trip would take.  Theoretically, one could travel from Kashgar to Xi'an and back in well under a year, if one were properly motivated and provisioned—it is roughly 4,000 kilometers, and travel would have likely been broken up with long stays to rest and refresh at the various towns along the way. I've personally had the opportunity to travel from Kashgar to Turpan, though granted it was in the comfort of an air conditioned bus.  Still, having seen the modern conditions, the trip would be grueling, but not impossible back in the day, and if the profits were lucrative enough, then why not do it—it is not dissimilar to the adventurers from Europe in the 16th century who went out to sea to find their own fortunes.  And so the glass bowl likely made its way through the markets of the Tarim basin, to the markets of various capitals in the Yellow River or Yangzi regions—depending on who was in charge in any given year—and eventually made its way to the Korean peninsula and from there to a ship across the Korean strait. Of course, those ships weren't simply holding a single glass vessel.  Likely they were laden with a wide variety of goods.  Some things, such as fabric, incense, and other more biodegradable products would not be as likely to remain, and even glass breaks and oxidizes, and metal rusts away.  Furthermore, many of the goods had likely been picked over by the time any shipments arrived in the islands, making things such as these glass bowls even more rare and scarce. Still, this bowl, whether it belonged to Ankan or not, tells us a story.  It is the story of a much larger world, well beyond the Japanese archipelago, and one that will be encroaching more and more as we continue to explore this period.  Because it wasn't just physical goods that were being transported along the Silk Road.  The travelers also carried with them news and new ideas.  One of these ideas was a series of teachings that came out of India and arrived in China during the Han dynasty, known as Buddhism.  It would take until the 6th century, but Buddhism would eventually make its way to Japan, the end of the Silk Road. But that is for another episode.  For now, I think we'll close out our story of Ankan and his glass bowl.  I hope you've enjoyed this little diversion, and from here we'll continue on with our narrative as we edge closer and closer to the formal introduction of Buddhism and the era known as the Asuka Period. 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Why Did Peter Sink?
We Want the Wrong Things

Why Did Peter Sink?

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2022 24:19


People today believe that Christianity is being put back into its cage. That it's being snuffed out. But what those poor folks don't realize is how the release of the old pluralistic religions into the world, like that of Rome in the first century, is creating the exact same conditions that allowed Christianity to take hold and win hearts in the first place. What kind of world do we imagine the twelve apostles woke up in each morning? There wasn't even a single church for them to go to. They had nothing but the life and words of Jesus, and even that wasn't written down yet. They didn't have pamphlets to hand out or crosses to give away. They only had faith that Jesus was God, and with a rudimentary liturgy from the Last Supper, they built the church from that. They lived among the most hostile of worlds to the idea they were selling. It inverted everything that the Romans and Jews and every other culture held as truth. Yet the message of “Surrender your life to the crucified Christ, the humble carpenter, and you will find peace!” took the world by storm. For the apostles, there wasn't even so much as an Adoration Chapel to find refuge in, unless you count the Upper Room where they huddled in fear until Pentecost. Those who wish for the death of the Christian faith or the Catholic Church may be in for a rude awakening when the conditions are re-created so that this dynamite can erupt once again. The watered-down, lukewarm, stale versions of Christianity has turned people off, as familiarity breeds contempt. The merger of worldly desires with the goals of Christianity has repulsed people. But the more that we retreat from the ideas that Jesus brought to us, we will begin to realize what we had, and what we lost, and why it won so many hearts and minds in the first place. The Way, as it was originally called, long before it was called Christianity, was a life of total surrender to Christ; to Jesus himself, the risen and glorified God-man. The Way, long before the Mandalorian borrowed that noun, meant abandoning all possessions and goals and desires to be reborn in life through Christ. As we separate into our homes, hovering over our devices, in isolation, the communities of real people that form around Christ and his Church will once again remind us how his victory was achieved without sending down fire from heaven. That's the freedom that Christ gives. That's the relationships that he creates. That's the whole secret. And that's the recipe that has been put into storage and is waiting to be re-introduced, and will be in spectacular fashion once the “Big Empty” of this world's pleasures becomes felt again. As it was in the first century, so shall it be again. I've said it more than once on this site but I'll say it again. We are lost in the morass of modern desires because of a simple fact:We want the wrong things. In this age of comfort we have the extreme luxury of being able to assume that we are in charge, that we humans don't need a healer or savior. However, anyone who has gotten drunk a thousand times trying to find heaven can tell you (pick me!) that the next thousand times turns into hell. The same goes for sex or anything else, because the initial high wears off and the addiction takes you by the throat. We may not need a cataclysm to find the need for God, but we will have signs along the way even in days of comfort. One sure fire way to remove all doubt of our need for God is when food prices triple and fuel runs out. Then we may be reminded of what the pre-Christian world was like, and what type of people and powers occupied it. Affluence can provide a mask of control over our affairs, when in reality we are just a few weeks of broken supply-chain away from total desperation. Even without something dramatic we will find the same conclusion. We control nothing in the end. There are two great tests in life. One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want. For those of us who have lived in the West our entire lives, we don't know what it means to live in a fully godless society, but we should remain under no illusion that our chance to learn isn't nearing. Within the last century, Mexico and Russia have had extermination campaigns to kill off every priest in the land, and both have failed. This has happened before. It has happened in all of Europe during the early centuries of Christianity. It has happened in Japan. Priests are getting killed every week in Nigeria even today. There are thousands of pages of martyr stories from every corner and country in the world. It is happening now in Nicaragua. It will most certainly happen in America at some point. Rest assured, there is a new Miguel Pro right now, already born today in one of the fifty states. There is a St. Lawrence and a St. Joan of Arc, already attending faith formation classes somewhere. They are out there, praying, on their journey toward God. St. Paul went to Athens, the place of sophisticated non-believers, and stood on the Areopagus long ago, but we are reaching a point where it will happen again, because most people today don't even know the story of Jesus. We are traveling backward in time. Few kids today could tell you who Moses or David was or why their names are known. This whole yo-yo effect nearly has a Big Bang feel to it, like how the universe is said to expand and contract. It's like there is a parallel in human history, as the expansion of sin ran amok from Adam to Noah, then contracted in the Flood. Then sin expanded again, from Babylon through Rome, and then contracted once Christ's message was rolled into the cosmos from the center-point of the ancient world in Jerusalem. The false religions started backpedaling into hiding. And today, as promised by Jesus, the devil would be let free for awhile and sin would seem to rule. The devil has been released for his time, and clearly the twentieth century was part of his allowance. If you don't believe the message of Christ is divinely inspired, then you have to at least consider the fact that the story of Christ is far more compelling to people than that of Zeus or Wicca or the other stories of supernatural explanations. The fact is that Christianity has a far better story, even if you don't believe in supernatural things. We have just stopped telling the story because many of the tellers can't separate themselves from the Word of God. The reason the message is diluted is because you have everyone claiming the message and welding their favorite sin onto the message, whether it be love of money or sexual sin. We are lacking heroes and authentic lives. We don't yet have our St. Benedict or St. Sixtus or St. Anthony of Egypt. But that person will arrive. The false prophets are loud, but they will fade away. And even if they continue to make noise and draw followers, the way of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is already known to those who seek to follow Him. People have forgotten that demons exist. Now we are emboldened by a false sense of security, as the chaos of the world seems gone. We can walk into dark basements and tell ourselves that no monsters exist. Feeling so bold, we have even started seeking out those demons once again. But we are only bold because we know the light switch is near. The comfort of technology and electricity acts as a security blanket. After all, monsters aren't real, or so we tell ourselves. So there's nothing to be afraid of. Right? And yet people still go out into the countryside, or woods, or a basement when the bulb is out, and they start to wonder…what if they are real? The boldness shrinks when the lights go out, or the engine fails, or the boat starts to take on water. People who are glued to screens do not understand what prior generations did. As soon as the chaos peeks its head out from the darkness, we're not so sure that those monsters are gone. This is the result of people trying to live on reason alone. Stuffing our sense of the supernatural into a box doesn't make it disappear. The ghosts and demons come out of hiding once God is forgotten or ignored. Since the demons cannot destroy God, the next best thing is to destroy his beloved creation, and that means you and me. The best way to destroy a person is to tell them there is no God. It's also the easiest. We are wired for God, but we are wired for desire and rebellion as well. The wiring for God urges us, via our consciences, to seek God, as doing the wrong thing leaves us empty. No one wakes up from a one-night stand and feels fulfilled. No one wakes up after a food or drinking binge and feels it was a good decision. If they do, they are already long down the path of denying that sin exists. Habitual sin acts like blinders on a horse, keeping the soul going in the direction where the devil wants to take you. The good that we are after is not the stuff or substance that we want. It's something far better, but we have to give up our self to obtain what is truly good. As soon as there is no God, then we can not only do whatever we like, but then we must solve all of our problems by ourselves and using things in this world. Or, if we can't solve them, we at least must shove our problems out of the way. This can be seen in basic data points, like how non-religious doctors are much more likely to hasten and accelerate death of terminally ill patients. The reality of the denial of God and rejection of the idea of sin rises up like swamp gas. Once the flip of the switch is made where God is not something to be taken seriously, then something must take its place because we still need salvation, a healer. If you don't think you do, examine where all of your free time is spent and you will find your surrogate savior. For many, it's sports. For others, it's politics. For the more obvious sinners, it's drugs, alcohol, and sex. In all cases, the person of Jesus takes a backseat, or is kicked out the car altogether. For those who remain on a strict diet of Enlightenment thinking, they have tapped technology to play the savior. They have turned to science, because rejecting spirits and God leaves no where else to turn. At least the seekers who summon spirits are trying, unboxing that supernatural feeling. Reason alone leaves you as half a human. The body and the soul must be put back together, as is done to Peter in John, Chapter 6. When all other options have failed, when flat reason and unbelief leaves you flat, and the false religions are outed as nonsense, you will have nowhere else to turn. Consider this exchange between Peter and Jesus, but replace the word “Jesus” with “Science” or “Technology” or “Wicca” or “Astrology”. Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” (Jn 6:67-69)Now the modern version:Science then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Science, to whom shall we go? You have the words of material life. We have come to believe and are convinced that there is no God.” (Jn 6:67-69)Technology is the modern master, but it's an odd one because it's an amorphous blob of knowledge, not wisdom, that is so specialized that we just grunt and accept it as the one true god, like cave men who “knew” that the sun god or big oak tree held all the secrets of the universe. For 99% of us, if tomorrow we were told that electrons were found to be very tiny acorns, we would take it on faith as a fact, because in no way or scenario could most people ever test or prove otherwise. Now, we have to take it on faith that physicists and chemists would not lie to us like that. Yet often they do. Science takes bad paths that require a long time to undo, plus a massive waste of time and energy as good money follows bad science. (If you don't believe me, see the 2006 Alzheimer's research, or dry labbing, or the history of phrenology, or cold fusion in a coffee cup, or Piltdown man in Sussex, or many, many other cases). Unsurprisingly, scientists are as susceptible to the deadly sins like anyone else, much of which is prompted by the shiny tempting apple that promises to get their paper published and make them a science god. You can see that Genesis 3:1 verse playing out in those stories just like any other story. Can't you just see how the wheels turn in a brain to lie, to fudge the truth, in order to get a paper published? When the serpent says to Eve, “Did God really say you can't eat from the tree?” This is how that question plays out:“Did God really say…I can't alter this image to match my experiment results?”After all, we only sin because we perceive a good thing and want it, and decide that skirting the next right action will be acceptable, as the perceived good thing we want won't hurt anyone if we just cheat a bit to get it. We want status and recognition, that is the perceived good thing. In order to get it, how easy it is to be convinced that our ideas and interpretation of the data is correct, and that we just need to fit things into our mind's image of the world, instead of resting our in God's world. Faith is submitting our intellect and will to God, which means that unbelief is the opposite: it is submitting our will and intellect to our selves. So science has its own falls and corruption. It advances and retreats and advances again. Science can do so much, but only so much. The limitation to science is the fact that it can't get outside the universe, nor can it tell us why a sunset is beautiful, or why Shakespeare's stories are timeless, or why seeing a baby born can change a person's conception of everything in creation. In fact, this is exactly why so many people like to quote Hamlet when he says to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” There is more to this world than science and technology. In fact, the dullest things in this world is the way we treat nature like it was a cadaver to be dissected. Consider Horatio to be like a Mark Zuckerberg, or any agnostic or atheist. Hamlet and Horatio have just seen and spoke with the ghost of Hamlet's father. Horatio is the archetype of the Enlightenment world-changer.Horatio, a model of rationality, is still having a hard time swallowing the whole business. Ghosts are not the sort of beings his "philosophy" easily takes into account. We know that Horatio is, like Hamlet, a student at the University of Wittenberg, a notable outpost of Protestant humanism. The philosophy he studies there is probably classical—a compound of ethics, logic, and natural science. The emphasis on everyday phenomena pretty much excludes speculation about talking ghosts. (From enotes.)So Horatio is just like a modern person, like me not that long ago, who must rely solely on reason and rationality. He is one of those poor folks sliced in half, by their own volition: all body, no soul. Because like our alternate version of Peter, anonymous internet user, where else can Horatio go? Peter can say to Jesus, the living son of God, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” The purely rational person cannot ask for any spiritual explanation, ever! Because even cracking the door to the reality of souls and spirits leads to a flood of what-ifs. To someone trying to live in a world of pure reason, the only thing holding back the chaos monster is science and technology. The odd thing about this position is that while you lampoon the religious as superstitious fools who puts his fingers in his ears and makes noise to drown out the reality of the material world, on the flip side, the rationalist must put his fingers in his ears and make noise to drown out the possibility of ghosts and spirits. Anything beyond the material world must be stuffed in a box, because if even a single ghost story is true, if a single prophecy of the future was proven legit, or if any being's soul is real, or any miracle has ever happened - even a single miracle - then the closed door of reason is suddenly flung wide open. Thus the savior of technology must be clung to, because to what else can the non-believing materialist turn? All spiritual things must be deduced to a chemistry problem. Many people can claim to make their decisions based purely on reason, but like many a Christian who claims to be in a state of grace while receiving the Eucharist, there is a lot of not-so-devout rationalists. But they believe that when push comes to shove, they will side with science, just as even the most lukewarm Christian will declare that their alliance falls on the side of faith. But these types of declarations are for grouping and identifying oneself, where the science-fan does not wish to align with the ignorant believers and the half-hearted Christian will side with believers to avoid being called a heathen. Marketing departments make healthy profits relying much on our instinctual reaction to divide ourselves among declarations. Selling cars and nail polish is not terribly different from selling a worldview, but the worldview you adopt has a far greater impact on your life and death than the color of your fingernails on the steering wheel.The promise of freedom through a gadget or technology leads to a kind of reliance, and ultimately a kind of slavery. But this servitude cannot easily be seen except by some unfortunate prophetic Cassandra who know of problems to come, yet can do nothing to halt its progress. Also, it should be noted that once Prometheus had stole fire from the gods, no one ever suggested that he put it back, even if it turned out the we weren't even ready to handle fire properly. The entrepreneurial maxim that “If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door” holds true whenever we discover something new and shiny. But these are all distractions from the truth. And all of those shiny things will leave you empty, all of those experiences will end and require another chase down the next rabbit-hole. There is always something to keep looking for, until you trip over the treasure in the field, and find Jesus, the crucified carpenter, and discover that it was him you were looking for all along. Then like St. Augustine you can say, “My heart was restless until it rested in Thee.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com

Creation Moments on Oneplace.com
Discovery at Piltdown

Creation Moments on Oneplace.com

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2022 2:00


Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29

Creation Moments on Oneplace.com
Discovery at Piltdown

Creation Moments on Oneplace.com

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2022 2:00


Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29

DESPIERTA TU CURIOSIDAD
El fraude más grande de la ciencia: el Hombre de Piltdown

DESPIERTA TU CURIOSIDAD

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2022 4:39


El eslabón perdido… a quién no le suena. Fue en 1912 cuando el arqueólogo inglés, Charles Dawson, afirmó que había descubierto uno de fósiles más importantes de todos los tiempos: el que conectaba a los humanos modernos con el simio del que descendíamos. Pero no, cuarenta años después se demostró que había sido un engaño con nombre propio: el hombre de Piltdown. El pretendido fósil dio el pego pues Dawson lo fabricó uniendo un cráneo humano con la mandíbula de un orangután.

Evolution on SermonAudio
Five Frauds of Evolution: Lucy,Piltdown , Haeckel Embryo's

Evolution on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2022 127:00


A new MP3 sermon from Old Paths Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Five Frauds of Evolution: Lucy,Piltdown , Haeckel Embryo's Subtitle: Satanic Roots of Evolution Speaker: Jason Cooley Broadcaster: Old Paths Baptist Church Event: Podcast Date: 7/25/2022 Bible: Genesis 3 Length: 127 min.

Chasseurs de science
L'homme de Piltdown, le chaînon manquant enfin découvert

Chasseurs de science

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 10:42


En 1908, l'avocat et archéologue amateur Charles Dawson annonce une découverte qui va révolutionner l'Histoire de l'Homme : celle de fragments de crâne et de mâchoire ayant appartenu au célèbre chaînon manquant, le Graal des anthropologues et des biologistes tentant de retracer notre chemin jusqu'au singe. Trop beau pour être vrai ? Pour le savoir, il faudra écouter cet épisode de Chasseurs de Science !

Chasseurs de science
L'homme de Piltdown, le chaînon manquant enfin découvert

Chasseurs de science

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 10:47


En 1908, l'avocat et archéologue amateur Charles Dawson annonce une découverte qui va révolutionner l'Histoire de l'Homme : celle de fragments de crâne et de mâchoire ayant appartenu au célèbre chaînon manquant, le Graal des anthropologues et des biologistes tentant de retracer notre chemin jusqu'au singe. Trop beau pour être vrai ? Pour le savoir, il faudra écouter cet épisode de Chasseurs de Science !

Podsothoth: A Lovecraft Book Club

Tonight's episode is a reading of HP Lovecraft's Dagon, which was first published in the 1919 issue of "The Vagrant," and later republished in the October 1923 issue of "Weird Tales." Please be aware: this story contains depictions morphine addiction, suicidal thoughts, the odor of rotten fish, Piltdown man, and an unkind characterization of Pacific Islander religion. If any of these are likely to unduly bother you, please stop listening now.Note, I expect to have the discussion episode edited and published early next week, possibly even Monday. We went a little off the rails recording it, so it'll be an editing challenge. :)Special thanks to Master Pancake Theater for mentioning the podcast during their riff of Conan: The Barbarian! Robert E. Howard was a contemporary and friend of Lovecraft, so it was totally appropriate to watch while editing this episode!Ambience provided by Creaky Wooden Pirate Ship on the High Seas in a Thunderstorm.

Jurassic Park Cast
Episode 9 - Skeleton

Jurassic Park Cast

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2022 81:54


0:00 - Introduction Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at: Episode 9 - Skeleton. 9:46 - Guest interview with Jamie Reaume 25:00 - The Shining's influence on Jurassic Park 37:00 - Foreign Film Star sample music  43:00 - Jurassic Park trivia In this episode, my terrific guest Jamie Reaume chats with me about:  Ace Ventura When Nature Calls, Christmas Cards, The Chatham Capitol Theatre, Dune, special effects, Michael Keaton's Batman, The Dark Knight, classic Hollywood, Brachiosaurus, velociraptors, sound design, adopting Costa Rican culture in the sound design, The Shining, Jack, plaigiarism v. tribute, Blues, Led Zepplin, learning to play guitar, 1993, layering sounds, Gary Rydstrom , tyrannosaurus sound design, velociraptor sound design, posterizable moments, Ninja T-Rex, mating sounds, music production, No Country for Old Men, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Muldoon, trivia, Dances With Wolves, runtimes, Weird Al, Daniel Radcliff, Ian Malcolm, Godzilla soundtrack, sampling roars, Aerosmith, Living on the Edge, Spoonman, Metallica, performing live, and what I like about poo (you'll see).   You can find Jamie Reuame at Shapes Guitar Lessons.com where he's an instructor, and he's co-host of Trivia Schmivia.com and you can find his musical catalogue on Youtube. Musical samples come from Safe Trip (kitchen pot, with his fingertips); The Ones and Zeros of Digital Rain (playing glasses of water); and Beautiful Pulse (with the funky outro).  3:40 - Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic 5:44 - Voices of the past: a review of Paleozoic and Mesozoic animal sounds Plus dinosaur news about: Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic Voices of the past: a review of Paleozoic and Mesozoicanimal sounds 0:47 - Music by Snale the rock band. Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases  Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Grow Old or Don't. Text This week's chapter is Skeleton, pages spanning from 42 - 48. Synopsis Alice Levin's X-Ray of the biting lizard shocks Grant and Ellie, who diagnose it as a procompsognathus, and consider if it's a hoax or a rediscovery, before Hammond calls to invite them to inspect his new island. 1:05:57 - Analyzing the literary and stylistic techniques 1:11:40 - Discussions on the allusions, the MacGuffin, Building  a Mystery, the portrayal of women, Control as a Hoax, Timeline, and responsibility and safety. Discussions surround:  Allusions to the Piltdown man, coelocanth's rediscovery, archaeopteryx, Fred Hoyle, the real procompsognathus triassicus, responsibility and safety, heroes and villains, Hammond's ironic comments on character, paleontology, costly digging, Child of the 80s, the Portrayal of Women, Hoaxes are Omnipresent, Timeline, Due Diligence, MacGuffins, and Building a Mystery.   Side effects vary from minor problems like a runny nose to life-threatening events:  Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). Thank you! The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers. You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I'm on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.  Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!  #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Redemption Community Church
A World of Knockoffs: False Conversions Pt. 2

Redemption Community Church

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2022 52:59


Intro: Piltdown Man Have you ever heard the story of the Piltdown man. In 1912, workers were digging at a location in Piltdown England, near Sussex, when they discovered some bone fragments that were strangely human. They turned those bones over to a local scientist named Charles Dawson. Dawson soon…

Redemption Community Church
A World of Knockoffs: False Conversions Pt. 2

Redemption Community Church

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2022 52:59


Intro: Piltdown Man Have you ever heard the story of the Piltdown man. In 1912, workers were digging at a location in Piltdown England, near Sussex, when they discovered some bone fragments that were strangely human. They turned those bones over to a local scientist named Charles Dawson. Dawson soon…

SWR2 Zeitwort
18.12.1912: In Piltdown wird ein Frühmensch gefunden

SWR2 Zeitwort

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2021 4:06


Der „Piltdown Man“ war ein Wesen zwischen Affe und Mensch. Über 40 Jahre lang feierten Anthropologen den Fund, bis er sich als Fälschung herausstellte.

Hoje na História - Opera Mundi
18 de dezembro de 1912 - Restos do Homem de Piltdown são encontrados na Inglaterra

Hoje na História - Opera Mundi

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2021 4:27


Após três anos de escavações arqueológicas em uma área pedregosa de Piltdown (Inglaterra), o arqueólogo amador Charles Dawson anuncia em 18 de dezembro de 1912 a descoberta de duas caveiras que pareciam pertencer a um primitivo hominídeo, ancestral do homem, junto com um dente canino, uma ferramenta talhada a partir da presa de elefante e partes fossilizadas de animais pré-históricos.Veja a matéria completa em: https://operamundi.uol.com.br/historia/26076/hoje-na-historia-1912-restos-do-homem-de-piltdown-sao-encontrados-na-inglaterra----Quer contribuir com Opera Mundi via PIX? Nossa chave é apoie@operamundi.com.br (Razão Social: Última Instancia Editorial Ltda.). Desde já agradecemos!Assinatura solidária: www.operamundi.com.br/apoio★ Support this podcast ★

Dessine-moi un dimanche
Le rire des femmes, et l'histoire de la supercherie de l'homme de Piltdown

Dessine-moi un dimanche

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 201:57


Alexandre Coupal parle de hockey; Ludovick Bourdages passe à travers les grands titres des journaux; Evelyne Charuest explique ce que sont le crypto-art et les jetons non fongibles (non-fungible tokens, ou NFT, en anglais); Jean-Luc Brassard se penche sur la course Transat Jacques-Vabre; Denis Langlois, spécialiste de la robotique pour les fermes laitières, décrit l'état des fermes en Colombie-Britannique; Ludovick Bourdages parle de la fête de la Sainte-Catherine; la Dre Caroline Quach-Thanh fait le point sur la situation liée à la COVID-19; Evelyne Ferron raconte l'histoire de la supercherie de l'homme de Piltdown; Evelyne Charuest aborde le film Aline, de Valérie Lemercier; Sabine Melchior-Bonnet parle de son livre Le rire des femmes : une histoire de pouvoir; Franco Nuovo reçoit la danseuse Rachele Buriassi, qui nous entretient de son interprétation de la Fée Dragée dans Casse-Noisette; et Thomas Hellman raconte le mythe d'Apollon et Daphné.

A Moment in Creation with KFUO Radio

Gary and Pastor Woerth talk about the Piltdown Chicken fossil. Is it based in facts or is it a hoax?

End On End
FIDELITY JONES "Piltdown Lad" / Full band interview

End On End

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2021 209:32


One of the sleeper gems of the Dischord catalog here. It was a fun conversation/listen/full band interview. Where else are you going to hear talk of Jethro Tull, the Shakers, veganism and Mothers Finest on a podcast about one record?

Die unglaubliche Geschichte
Fake News aus der Evolutionsforschung

Die unglaubliche Geschichte

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2021 2:51


Dezember 1912: Der Hobbyforscher Charles Dawson entdeckt in der Nähe von Piltdown in Südostengland einen Schädel, der von einem menschlichen Vorfahren stammen soll. Über Jahrzehnte gibt es Zweifel an der Echtheit des Fundes.

HISTORIAS AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE
EL HOMBRE DE PILTDOWN Y EL FRAUDE DE LA CIENCIA

HISTORIAS AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2021 22:54


No es cuestión de ponerse anticientífico. Pero en nombre de la ciencia se construyeron varias mentiras. La más célebre fue la de un “hallazgo arqueológico” anunciado con bombos y platillos, que indicaba que la especie humana había nacido en Inglaterra. Pasaron 41 años hasta que se supo la verdad: los “fósiles” en sólo eran huesos pintados. Apertura de Pablo Marchetti del programa 378 de AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE (28-7-2021) AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE. De lunes a viernes de 2 a 5 AM (hora Argentina) por Radio AM 750. Conducción: Pablo Marchetti. Con Guadalupe Cuevas y Manuel Campi. Producción: Rama Preckel. Operación técnica: Iván Bravo.

Zeitsprung
GAG305: Der Piltdown-Mensch

Zeitsprung

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 54:51


Wir springen in dieser Folge ins Jahr 1912. In der Nähe des kleinen Ortes Piltdown im englischen East Sussex findet ein Amateur-Archäologe die Fragmente eines Schädels, und nach einigen Monaten der Ausgrabung und Entdeckung weiterer Fossilien, stellt sich heraus, dass dieser nun Piltdown-Mensch benannte Fund eine wahre Sensation für die Frühgeschichte des Menschen darstellt. Wir sprechen in dieser Folge darüber, warum der Piltdown-Mensch eine beinahe unglaubliche Sensation war, welchen Einfluss er auf die Wissenschaft hatte und warum dieser Einfluss heute in einem ganz anderen Licht gesehen wird als damals. Das Episodenbild zeigt eine Rekonstruktion des Piltdown-Menschen von James H. McGregor. AUS UNSERER WERBUNG So kommt ihr zum 30-Euro Amazon Gutschein von CLARK: Anmeldung mit dem Code „GESCHICHTE“ unter www.clark.de (Deutschland), www.goclark.at (Österreich) oder direkt in der App. Neukunden bekommen 15€ pro jede in die App hochgeladene bestehende Versicherung (ausgeschlossen Gesetzliche Krankenkasse, Altersvorsorge, ADAC-Mitgliedschaften). Der Gutschein wird in 4-6 Wochen per E-Mail versendet, nachdem die Versicherungen als gültig bestätigt worden sind. Teilnahmebedingungen auf https://www.clark.de/de/teilnahmebedingungen/podcast15 und https://www.goclark.at/de/teilnahmebedingungen/podcast15

Fringe Radio Network
Snake Brothers - Hidded History of the Human Race Part 8

Fringe Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2021 136:05


Another deep dive into The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson for part eight! We continue on from where we were in part seven, looking at the "Java man" discovery of what would later be come known as Homo Erectus, by Eugene Dubois, and the problems and arguments surrounding those finds at the time.We read about another paleoanthropologist, von Koenigswald, returning to the same site in Java to look for further evidence of this "missing link", and the problems with his methods. There is also an interesting event in which a Jesuit priest, who had been involved in the discovery of Beijing Man and the Piltdown fossils, arrives and helps von Koenigswald get connected with the Carnegie Institute for funding of his work.

Brothers of the Serpent Podcast
Episode #202: The Hidden History of the Human Race - Part 8

Brothers of the Serpent Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2021


Back to our deep dive into The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson for part eight! We continue on from where we were in part seven, looking at the "Java man" discovery of what would later be come known as Homo Erectus, by Eugene Dubois, and the problems and arguments surrounding those finds at the time.We read about another paleoanthropologist, von Koenigswald, returning to the same site in Java to look for further evidence of this "missing link", and the problems with his methods. There is also an interesting event in which a Jesuit priest, who had been involved in the discovery of Beijing Man and the Piltdown fossils, arrives and helps von Koenigswald get connected with the Carnegie Institute for funding of his work.Brothers of the Serpent Episode 202If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element

Bully Magnets
El mayor fraude del mundo de la ciencia: El hombre de Piltdown – Bully Magnets – Historia Documental

Bully Magnets

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2021


El mayor fraude del mundo de la ciencia: El hombre de Piltdown - Bully Magnets - Historia Documental El cargo El mayor fraude del mundo de la ciencia: El hombre de Piltdown – Bully Magnets – Historia Documental apareció primero en Bully Magnets.

Cada día con Cristo — Podcast infantil
#226 El hombre de Piltdown

Cada día con Cristo — Podcast infantil

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 5:30


Una corta y edificante meditación para los más pequeños. Escúchala, piensa en ella y ora al finalizar. #226 El hombre de Piltdown Niños y niñas, hay muchas cosas que investigan y prueban los científicos que son muy interesantes, ¿no es cierto? Pero algunas, niegan la existencia de Dios y nos hacen dudar. Prestemos atención al ejemplo que tenemos hoy.

Mystificascience - RTS
Un faux chaînon manquant entre le singe et l'homme - S2E5

Mystificascience - RTS

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2020 19:51


C'est peut-être la mystification scientifique aux conséquences les plus lourdes pour l'histoire des sciences. L'homme de Piltdown, un crâne humain qui serait le chaînon manquant entre le singe et l'homme : il s'agit en fait d'un crâne humain et de la mandibule d'un orang-outan. L'auteur (ou les auteurs) de cette mystification qui a plus d'un siècle ne sont – encore aujourd'hui - pas clairement identifiés… Mais – vous l'imaginez bien – l'agente Lesley à son idée sur la question ! Vous pouvez adresser vos commentaires à l'équipe de Mystificascience à cette adresse : cqfd@rts.ch Écriture et conception : Adrien Zerbini Voix de l'agente Lesley : Lesley Sherwood Réalisation : Jean-Claude Gailly Présentation : Stéphane GabioudHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Momentos de la Creación on Oneplace.com
El Descubrimiento en Piltdown

Momentos de la Creación on Oneplace.com

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2020 2:05


Gnesis 1:26 Entonces dijo Dios: Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza! Que domine en toda la tierra sobre los peces del mar, sobre las aves de los cielos y las bestias, y sobre todo animal que repta sobre la tierra! To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1235/29

Light Your Bunsen Burner
A Very English Fossil: Piltdown Man

Light Your Bunsen Burner

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2019 75:12


In 1912, an amateur archeologist found a skull fragment and a jawbone in the English town of Piltdown. What was once thought as a ground breaking find turned out to be an elaborate fraud that misguided evolutionary biology for decades. Join us as we uncover the culprit behind the Piltdown Man hoax! Along the way we knight ourselves, find out how far English men will go to join the Royal Society and have a guest appearance by our boy, Mothman. Be prepared for bad English accents! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bunsenburnerpod/support

Skeptoid
Skeptoid #617: 10 Great Science Hoaxes

Skeptoid

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2018 15:31


A look at those few times when hoaxers came closest to fooling those who knew better.

Creation Moments on Oneplace.com
Discovery at Piltdown

Creation Moments on Oneplace.com

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2018 2:00


Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29

La nature selon Boucar
La nature selon Boucar 05-08-2017

La nature selon Boucar

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2017 52:45


Sapiens et Néandertal : Aujourd'hui, Néandertal n'est plus. Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé? Est-ce que Sapiens a exterminé Néandertal? Est-ce qu'il y a eu un métissage? Avaient-ils un ancêtre commun? Que reste-t-il de Néandertal dans la génétique caucasienne? Nous découvrons les mystères de la relation entre Homo sapiens et Néandertal. En deuxième partie, une chronique du journaliste spécialisé en paléontologie, Joël Leblanc, sur les tricheries de la paléontologie quand l'Europe ne voulait pas venir de l'Afrique. On parlera de l'homme de Piltdown et des autres trouvailles douteuses qui ont marqué l'histoire de la paléontologie humaine.

PRIMUM GRADUS (el primer paso)
5 El hombre de piltdown, el falso eslabón perdido - Episodio exclusivo para mecenas

PRIMUM GRADUS (el primer paso)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2017 13:30


Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! A principios del siglo XX se descubre en una gravera del sur de Inglaterra los restos del "eslabón perdido", el paso intermedio entre el simio y el hombre que confirmaba la teoría de la evolución tal y como la había concebido el mismísimo Darwin, pasarían más de 40 años hasta que se demostrase que todo era un montaje, mientras tanto la investigación se había desarrollado por caminos paralelos y el llamado hombre de Piltdown no había pasado de ser una rareza que no encajaba en el puzle de la evolución humanEscucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de PRIMUM GRADUS (el primer paso). Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/370698