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To: aculeus

Wasn't 'Lucy' discovered to be a fake about 5 years ago?


38 posted on 09/20/2006 11:14:28 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: Mr. K
Wasn't 'Lucy' discovered to be a fake about 5 years ago?

I'm sure creationists have proclaimed all fossils to be fake at some point in time.

44 posted on 09/20/2006 11:21:48 AM PDT by Dracian
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To: Mr. K

"Wasn't 'Lucy' discovered to be a fake about 5 years ago?"

No.


48 posted on 09/20/2006 11:32:58 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: Mr. K
"Wasn't 'Lucy' discovered to be a fake about 5 years ago?"

Not at all.

There was some cry from the creationist camp that it was a fraud because "Lucy's" knee was found some distance from the rest of "Lucy". However this is not the case, the knee that was found was claimed at the time, and still is, to be a part of a different Australopithecus afarensis specimen. Since that time many more A. afarensis fossils have been found, including some with their knee joint.

"Lucy" is not a fraud.

54 posted on 09/20/2006 11:50:58 AM PDT by b_sharp (Objectivity? Objectivity? We don't need no stinkin' objectivity.)
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I was just thinking that , too. Gotta be here somewhere.


75 posted on 09/20/2006 2:51:44 PM PDT by griswold3 (Ken Blackwell, Ohio Governor in 2006- No!! You cannot have my governor in 2008.)
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To: Mr. K
Wasn't 'Lucy' discovered to be a fake about 5 years ago?

No.

80 posted on 09/20/2006 4:28:49 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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From what I understand, it was not that "Lucy" is a fake, but rather, as more information surfaced as to the locations in which the various pieces were found as well as other questionable data surfaced, the deductions of anthropologists regarding "Lucy" came into question.
81 posted on 09/20/2006 4:34:09 PM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is more dangerous to the world now that Naziism was in 1937.)
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