Sad. I was fortunate as a child, because I could dig my own trilobites, crinoids, and other fossils out of the shale pile in front of one of my grandfather’s old coal mines. I had hard evidence in front of me that the earth is exceedingly old, and there are life forms that existed then that are gone now.
KEICHOUSAUR fossils from China have been faked for decades. So long in fact, that the 20+ year flood of fakes has stigmatized the appreciation and desire of genuine specimens amongst experienced collectors.
Everything about China seems to be a deception, most of all their Communist political system.
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You do realize that if a scientist engages in deception, REAL science has nevertheless transpired. At least, when it comes to evolutionary theory, no amount of fraud changes the template that only naturalism could possibly be responsible for the panoply of life on earth. The posse closes ranks, all the time. Bob