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To: Pharmboy
The Cardiff Giant!
108 posted on 12/04/2003 12:29:55 AM PST by At _War_With_Liberals
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To: At _War_With_Liberals
The Giant was a fraud perpetrated to make fun of a believer...it was never positioned as a missing link in human evolution. See here for story
119 posted on 12/04/2003 2:51:45 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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To: At _War_With_Liberals
Except that the Cardiff Giant was a hoax perpetuated on gullible creationists by a flim-flam artist who used the Biblical line, "[t]here were giants in those days" to pass off his statue as the real thing.

Creationists lack any theoretical framework with which to determine the veracity of a find. Face it, "God just did it that way" can cover just about any contingency. The Piltdown fraud, that Chinese dino-bird, and yes, the Cardiff Giant, fell not to creationist examination, but to scientific examination because scientists have tools (theories) which point them in the right direction.

124 posted on 12/04/2003 3:37:08 AM PST by Junior (Pergamentum init, exit pergamentum)
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