Re: paleonet fantastic flint forms

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Ed Conrad is on the discussion group talk.orgins right now ranting about the
global evilutionist conspiracy that is keeping people from recognising his
"human fossils".  ^_^

Regards
Paul Blake







Ben Waggoner <benw@mail.uca.edu> on 21/01/2002 02:38:53

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Subject:  Re: paleonet fantastic flint forms




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









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