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1 posted on 01/15/2007 7:49:23 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
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GGG Ping

Pre Clovis story for file


2 posted on 01/15/2007 7:50:13 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman (The Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt the man doing it!)
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I grew up on a farm in lower Ohio. We had several creeks on the property, most with layers of smooth rock for the beds. In those beds, in the different layers, were vast amounts of footprints. Everything from tractor-looking dinosaur tracks to every imaginable animal to human footprints, clearly delineated. I spent many a day walking in those footprints, wondering where those long gone peoples were traveling to or from. Not only that, there were dog and horse tracks right along side the human prints. I didn't find out til much later that there weren't any horses in the new world when people were there. Being a farm kid, I knew and could identify most tracks. Guess the scientists were much smarter than a dumb farm kid! :) I figured out-all by myself-that rock either formed much faster than I'd been told, or the scientist-who-knew-everything didn't know as much as they thought!


3 posted on 01/15/2007 8:00:26 AM PST by gardengirl
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Interesting info on the Gault site - http://www.utexas.edu/research/tarl/research/gault_links.php


6 posted on 01/15/2007 8:23:35 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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8 posted on 01/15/2007 8:31:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they're not." -- John Rummel)
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More "Good News" for the Mormons!..........


12 posted on 01/15/2007 8:36:57 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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Hopis say they came by boat but others came from the Bering Land bridge.


17 posted on 01/15/2007 8:50:11 AM PST by Eternal_Bear
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Anthropology has, since the 1970s, been taken-over by the Left, which has basically screwed the science all up. Ten years after I received my BA in Anthropology, my school's Anthro Dept. was captured by radical feminists who officially renamed it The Department of Feminist Anthroplogy, hired mentally disturbed, man-hating idealogues, and ruined the department for the next 20 years. In the past ten years there have been attempts to salvage the department and the discipline with mixed results. Anthropology, like its sister Sociology, has lost almost 40 years in the lunatic left wilderness.


18 posted on 01/15/2007 8:53:44 AM PST by pabianice
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YEC INTREP


19 posted on 01/15/2007 8:55:18 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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At first, many scientists attacked the validity of the evidence and clung to the theory that the Clovis people arrived first, Collins said. Over time, they began to accept the site and the tide of opinion turned, he said.

Conventional wisdom and consensus are the enemies of science everywhere, as it always has been. History is riddled with examples of situations where science was stalled because of entrenched consensus in wrong theories. For example, when Lord Kelvin estimateed the age of the earth he was way off, but to attempt to second guess him was tantamount to scientific heresy. Scientists can be surpisingly closed minded and unwilling to examine evidence which is counter to their expectiations.

23 posted on 01/15/2007 9:08:52 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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34 posted on 01/15/2007 9:49:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they're not." -- John Rummel)
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I don't know if it has always been this way with the process of scientific theory-making, but I seem to hear a lot lately that if one theory on some phenomenom is right, then all others are excluded.

In this article, for example, it is assumed that if some folks came here on boats, that that would invalidate the Bering land bridge idea. In my opinion, the discussion should be about how much of the continent was populated by people from one source versus another, and how far they migrated, and how much they mixed with each other.

Another is the whole Neanderthal/homo-sapien inter-breeding thing. If they were co-inhabitants of the same area at the same time and physically capable of inter-breeding, then they did. The question is how much and to what degree that is represented in the current population.

Maybe it is just the press being ignorant or uneducated. /rant

53 posted on 01/15/2007 10:42:43 AM PST by rbookward (When 900 years old you are, type as well you will not!)
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I never bought into the Bering Strait Theory. Why would humans want to venture in a cold area. Also, it is too simplistic. Most Indians have legends saying they are either from the south or sea.


75 posted on 01/15/2007 12:28:23 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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