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To: Elsie
"The only hoax I am aware of is Piltdown Man......then I got a feathered dino from Chino to sell you; complements of the Nat Geo folks."

I was talking about a hoax that the scientific community believed. *Archaeoraptor* was never accepted by science; National Geographic goofed, and paid for it's sloppiness. The hoax was perpetrated not by scientists but by fossil sellers.
1,118 posted on 02/21/2006 12:06:42 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman

I wonder why the creationists are so interested in hoaxes, except when it comes to the midwife toad.


1,120 posted on 02/21/2006 12:08:46 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
*Archaeoraptor* was never accepted by science; National Geographic goofed, and paid for it's sloppiness.

So much for Peer Review!

1,154 posted on 02/21/2006 12:52:35 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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