Re: paleonet fantastic flint forms

[Ben Waggoner <benw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaesler, Roger L wrote:
> 
> Dear Ms. Gjerloff,
> 
> Your e-mail message caught my attention.  I see a lot of these things, which
> I call  curious stones.  Here are a few examples. . . .

There's also the famous "female human finger" proudly on
display at the Creation Evidences Museum outside of Glen
Rose, Texas. It's an oval pebble with one end chipped in
such a way as to look like a finger and fingernail. The
museum displays X-rays of the rock which clearly show that
the bones are preserved in the center (because the center
of the rock looks lighter in the X-ray negative than the 
outside, you see -- it must be bones in the center!)

Usenet aficionados who visited sci.bio.paleontology between
about 1996 and 1998 may remember Ed Conrad, who has found
a vast number of human bones and organs -- including a 
petrified human gallbladder -- in a coal bed in Pennsylvania.
He used to have a Website called "MAN AS OLD AS COAL!!!",
and would post to s.b.p several times a day, over several
years, often heaping unintentionally comical invective on 
the heads of anyone who dared to oppose him. I'm not sure 
what he's doing now. Nor do I care. 

This gives me a wicked idea. . . There's a new million-dollar
creationist museum going up in Kentucky right now. For that 
matter, last time I was there, the Creation Evidences Museum
was raising funds to move into a new building, with more 
space for exhibits than the hot-pink doublewide they were
based in at the time. What if those of us with concretions 
like this offered to sell them to these museums? We wouldn't 
have to make real claims about exactly what we found; we 
could just say, "look, this thing looks just like a petrified 
foot; see, that looks exactly like the big toenail. . . Gosh 
golly gee whiz, Mr. Creation Scientist, do you think this 
could be yet more evidence that humans walked with dinosaurs?" 
and let them do the conclusions-jumping. Wonder how much we 
could raise for our fieldwork this way? You know, I have 
this thing that looks just like a dinosaur egg from the Late 
Mississippian. . . 

OK, maybe not. But sometimes it's fun to fantasize.

-- 
Ben