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Stone Age Elephant Found at Ancient U.K. Hunt Site
National Geographic ^
| July 7, 2006
| James Owen
Posted on 07/10/2006 2:01:44 PM PDT by ZULU
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To: tgambill
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.
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posted on
07/11/2006 4:25:05 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
Circular reasoning.....Metmom...didn't you take geometry...It's called "square reasoning" for squares...:)))
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posted on
07/11/2006 5:00:17 AM PDT
by
tgambill
(I would like to comment.....)
To: blam; SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/11/2006 5:24:35 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
To: uglybiker; blam
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posted on
07/11/2006 10:24:11 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: metmom
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.
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posted on
07/11/2006 2:00:55 PM PDT
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: ZULU
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)
To: taxesareforever
Yeah, I'm with you - - these archeologists gaze off into fantasy land and concoct stories in the heads.
To: ZULU
Would these extinct elephants have been related to mammoths? Or is "Palaeoloxodon antiquus" the scientific term for a type of mammoth?
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:24:42 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Islam is on the rampage -- where will the next bombing be?)
To: metmom
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?
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:27:13 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Islam is on the rampage -- where will the next bombing be?)
To: Cronos
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.
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07/12/2006 4:53:16 AM PDT
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metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Lancey Howard
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.
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07/12/2006 7:21:37 AM PDT
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ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: Cronos
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.
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07/12/2006 7:22:43 AM PDT
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ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: Mannaggia l'America
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07/12/2006 7:26:43 AM PDT
by
Churchillspirit
(We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
To: metmom
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.
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posted on
07/12/2006 7:30:37 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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