Stone Age Elephant Found at Ancient U.K. Hunt Site

National Geographic ^ | July 7, 2006 | James Owen

[metmom]

What's that about not using fossils to date the site and the site to date the fossils? *circular reasoning* I believe it's called.

[tgambill]

Circular reasoning.....Metmom...didn't you take geometry...It's called "square reasoning" for squares...:)))

[uglybiker]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[RunningWolf]

The hard constants of physics may indeed not be so constant either.

Scientists Question Nature's Fundamental Laws

But as we have been told so many times (paraphrased & condensed) there is nothing or practically nothing that can take the false god of evolution down /sarc>

W.

[taxesareforever]

You got to hand it to these archaeologists, it's not just anyone who can look at a bone and write a life history of everything that came in contact with a bone that is 400,000 years old. Hey, I found a pair of dirty socks, I wonder if they could write the history of these socks since they are no older than 100 years old.(Just by looking at them)

[Lancey Howard]

Yeah, I'm with you - - these archeologists gaze off into fantasy land and concoct stories in the heads.

[Cronos]

Would these extinct elephants have been related to mammoths? Or is "Palaeoloxodon antiquus" the scientific term for a type of mammoth?

[Cronos]

Where do these guys come to their conclusions? No clothes in Britain's current climate is not conducive to survival.

Maybe heidelbergensis had a thick coating of hair, like a gorilla? Also, the earth could have been warmer then, and wasn't England connected to Europe at that time?

[metmom]

The article stated that the climate was similar to what it is today. In that case, one would think that the fur/hair would have been a distinct survival advantage. Why would it lose it's fur in a cold climate? I really don't know much about continental drift and if it was connected, although it does make sense. Any creature not intelligent enough to use fire or make clothes, certainly couldn't have made a boat and sailed across the English Channel.

[ZULU]

Actually, a lot of it is solid science and a lot of it HAS to be guess work.

If they didn't present an educated guess about the situation there would be nothing very interesting in a pile of old bones.

[ZULU]

I checked it out on the Net. Apparently they were giant elephants more closely related to the Indian Elephant than the African Elephant and more closely related to both than to mammoths.

[Churchillspirit]

Home Depot

LOL!!

[ZULU]

I'mnot sure the English Channel existed then.

The entire North Sea was at one time dry land or low-lying swamp.

Climate does change. Also, there are hairy monkeys in Japan who live in an area which has snow in winter. They're called Japanese Macaques.