Creation Museum Selling Mastodon Skull

AP ^ | 1/17/08 | By PAUL J. WEBER

[xcamel]

Get yer popcorn..

[Tamar1973]

I wonder if the AIG museum in Kentucky will pay for this.

[scottdeus12]

Nothing like Friday fireworks. Camel, pass the popcorn, would ya?

[Migraine]

"You can just tread water for so long."

That's what Noah said.

[LeGrande]

Heritage Auction Galleries says the skull is estimated to be 40,000 years old,

That must be a typo. The Museum says that nothing is over 10,000 years old. Could money trump religion?

[xjcsa]

Maybe the auction house and the museum just disagree.

[LeGrande]

Maybe the auction house and the museum just disagree.

My father always told me to follow the money. He was a smart old man : )

[KarlInOhio]

That must be a typo. The Museum says that nothing is over 10,000 years old. Could money trump religion?

Well, that's just what the auction house says. But they're a bunch of hell bound heathens so their opinion doesn't count. < /prehistoric elephant sized sarcasm>

[KarlInOhio]

The Heritage auction will also include other natural history items, including a 26-pound gold nugget found in Mexico that is expected to fetch at least $1 million.

Oh, that's nice. Leave the most expensive item in the auction as an afterthought in the last line of the article. 26 pounds of gold = $334,000 just for the gold itself.

[shuckmaster]

The prevailing scientific wisdom is that humans and dinosaurs missed each other by tens of millions of years.

This fails to take into consideration that the earth is only 6000 years old and 10 million years could equal a single day to the intelligent designer. Since the 2nd law of thermodynamics makes scientific radio-carbon dating inaccurate by a few years, that proves that dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time.

[Coyoteman]

A skull like that wouldn't be too hard to date. Cost for an AMS radiocarbon date, with surcharge for bone, should be under $700.

But what if it came back over 6,000 years old? (Considering that most of the mastodons in the continental US were extinct by 10,000 years ago, a date older than 6,000 years would be pretty much guaranteed.)

Whoops! Popcorn is right!

[blowfish]

Actually, it should be referred to as a ‘Jesus Elephant’...

[WorkingClassFilth]

What’s the problem?

If the guy owns the fossil, TS for the purist critics that sneer at his rights, his ownership or his desire to sell.

Of course, if you subscribe the ‘precious scientific heritage of all peoples’ concept of fossils ownership vs. traditional private property rights, you might be outraged.

In that case...here’s hoping you become extinct.

[xcamel]

Hey... I just posted it...
I have no dog in the hunt

[durasell]

But do you have a dog that likes bones? That’s the real question.

[Gondring]

The artifact discovered in La Grange in 2004

And here I read that as "LaGrande" at first... ;-)

[xcamel]

3 of them, and the fossils on my farm date from earliest stromatolites to favosite coral...

[durasell]

Well, just imagine them going to town on a prehistoric mastodon skull! The ultimate chew toy!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Sorry, you’re clean as the driven snow - I was being rhetorical. If the guy’s a creationist and people want to come his museum or buy his stuff - fine. Some in the scientific community with fascist impulses think this kind of thing is a crime. Personally, I’m for choice - and traditional freedoms. IMO, evolution doesn’t cut the mustard too cleanly either.

[Gondring]

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