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To: Right Wing Professor
Geologists have established that the Hell Creek Formation, where B. rex was found, is 68 million years old, and so are the bones buried in it.

Why should a creek be considered as old as the bones buried in it, or vice versa? Are you as old as the dirt you walk on?

213 posted on 06/09/2006 2:40:31 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Why should a creek be considered as old as the bones buried in it, or vice versa?

Is this serious? A thing dies in the mud. As it happens, more mud covers it, and more sediment layers cover those. The thing gets fossilized as the mud layers turn to shale rock.

The age of the shale is the age since it was mud. How is the age of the fossil any different?

215 posted on 06/09/2006 2:47:12 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Why should a creek be considered as old as the bones buried in it, or vice versa? Are you as old as the dirt you walk on?

It's not a creek. Sheesh.

If we find Jimmy Hoffa's bones embedded in the middle of a piece of concrete poured on April 23, 1975, when was Jimmy Hoffa deposited there?

220 posted on 06/09/2006 2:59:22 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (...I'm dancin' right there with you, Iraqis.)
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