Mel Gibson on science: what the evidence says · JRE #2254
SUBJECT: SCIENCE
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
But it was like they they looked at it and they did some core samples on it, and it was put out there by people advocating evolution, and they discovered that it was a human skull attached to the jaw of an ape.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Zinjanthropus boisei (OH 5, now classified as Paranthropus boisei) was discovered by Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1959 and formally described by Louis Leakey in Nature that same year as a single, intact robust hominin cranium with massive molars, premolars, and a sagittal crest, not a composite of a human skull and an ape jaw. The fossil has been accepted as genuine by paleoanthropologists for over six decades and remains a type specimen central to the fossil record of early hominins, per the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. The description Gibson gives, a human skull fused with an ape jaw exposed via testing after being promoted by evolution advocates, instead matches the well-documented Piltdown Man hoax (1912-1953), a set of skull fragments and an orangutan jaw fraudulently combined and later debunked using fluorine dating and other techniques; Piltdown Man is unrelated to Zinjanthropus. Current evidence indicates the claim as stated about Zinjanthropus is false, and it appears to conflate two distinct fossil discoveries.