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To: webstersII
In addition, the fossils that have been inconveniently found in the “wrong” place have been discarded as anomalies instead of data points.

There aren't as many of these as you might think.

The article beginning this thread posted the following about these "wrong" place fossils:

And fossil remains have been found in strata dated at millions of years old; they are identical to Homo sapiens sapiens. That is, us. Hundreds of examples exist. ... A Professor of Geology found, in the lower Pliocene strata of Castelnodolo, near Brescia, a complete human skeleton indistinguishable from that of a modern woman. The staining in the bones, the depth and number of different strata above the skeleton and its position made it very highly unlikely it could have been a more recent burial. The inescapable conclusion is that this speciment of homo sapiens sapiens was walking around 3.5 million years ago.
This example is completely false. First, the find was made over 100 years ago, and as was the case for just about all such finds back then it was poorly documented. It was more likely that the bones were intrusive into that old layer. More recently the bones were documented as modern by radiocarbon dating. In other words, they looked like modern human bones because they were modern human bones.

One should not grasp any these anomalous fossil "straws" as accurate without first doing a thorough check on their documentation. Most have been researched and found to be modern, but they live on as "proof against evolution" courtesy of the internet.

118 posted on 05/01/2008 8:07:23 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

“There aren’t as many of these as you might think.”

All it takes is one to falsify the TOE.


170 posted on 05/01/2008 6:06:15 PM PDT by webstersII
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