Cardiff Giant: Difference between revisions

The giant was the creation of a New York [[tobacconist]] named George Hull. He was deeply attracted to science and especially in the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Franco|first=Barbara |date=1969 |title=The Cardiff Giant: A Hundred Year Old Hoax |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42677717 |journal=New York History |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=420–440 |jstor=42677717 |issn=0146-437X}}</ref> Hull, an [[Atheism|atheist]], got into an argument with Reverend Turk and his supporters at a [[Methodism|Methodist]] revival meeting about [[Nephilim|Genesis 6:4]], which states that there were giants who once lived on Earth.<ref name="MagnussonP1882">{{Harvnb|Magnusson|2006|p=188}}</ref> Being the minority party, Hull lost the argument.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Pettit |first=Michael |date=2006 |title="The Joy in Believing": The Cardiff Giant, Commercial Deceptions, and Styles of Observation in Gilded Age America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/509948 |journal=Isis |volume=97 |issue=4 |pages=659–677 |doi=10.1086/509948 |jstor=10.1086/509948 |pmid=17367004 |s2cid=25861933 |issn=0021-1753}}</ref> Angered by his defeat and the credulity of people, Hull wanted to prove how easily he could fool people with a fake giant.<ref>{{Cite book |last=L. |firstauthor=Feder, Kenneth L. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/604139167 |title=Frauds, myths, and mysteries : science and pseudoscience in archaeology |date=1995 |publisher=Mayfield Pub |oclc=604139167}}</ref>