Re: Newspapers & **Dinosaurs**

[Neal Evenhuis <neale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Dr. Fred J. Gunther wrote:

> Looks like reporters can't get anything right.  The following was printed 
> in **The Catholic Review** (Baltimore MD), on the travel page for Wednesday, 
> August 1995.
(snip)
> the second floor, the Fairview Mastodon is on display.  The 
> 11,600-year-old bones, ..., are now neatly arranged and labeled.
> >>endquote
> 
> Thus, in the popular press, a Mastodon is a dinosaur  (;^[)

Actually, I'm VERY surprised that the "Catholic" church would
consider 11,600 year old bones as "dinosaurs". Remember, the real
fundamentalists have to deal with the fact that existence as we know it
was not older than 4,400 B.C. Maybe the church is getting a bit lax and
allowing a "few" more thousand years for evolution to have taken place. .

 ;)


Neal Evenhuis