I posted this primarily because of the age of the axe in Ireland. I hadn't realized that people had been into Ireland so early.
I wonder if these would have been the Firmanaugh of Irish legend. Surely not the Faerie.
1 posted on
09/01/2003 3:00:06 AM PDT by
jimtorr
To: blam
fyi
To: jimtorr
Orcs
4 posted on
09/01/2003 3:32:07 AM PDT by
Jim Noble
To: jimtorr
.....Firmanaugh....... I think my memory is faulty on that one. That's the name of a county.
5 posted on
09/01/2003 3:50:48 AM PDT by
jimtorr
To: jimtorr
I posted this primarily because of the age of the axe in Ireland. I hadn't realized that people had been into Ireland so early.They weren't there that early. Reread the article, it is full of weasel language and disclaimers. The 8-9,000 years was pulled out of thin air because the vanity of Ian Leitch wouldn't let him say "I don't know.", which would have been the appropriate and correct answer. Stone does not perform well under radioisotope dating. The axe head is described as "unique" making it ludicrous to date it according to other guesstimates of similar material. The guy is showing typical deceptiveness of the evolution crowd. I can build a stone axe that looks like something used a long time ago, will it be described as being 8-9,000 years old? The rock may be old, but there is absolutely no way they can date the age of the craftsmanship. Suppose I was stranded somewhere and built some crude hand tools according to the survival books. Because it wasn't fashioned out of modern high strength metal alloys would it be considered primitive and thus if found one hundred years later be dated as a Stone Age artifact?
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ping
13 posted on
09/01/2003 6:19:54 AM PDT by
Prof Engineer
(HHD - Blast it Jim. I'm an Engineer, not a walking dictionary.)
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16 posted on
09/01/2003 6:28:30 AM PDT by
KantianBurke
(The Federal govt should be protecting us from terrorists, not handing out goodies)
To: jimtorr
Great! we finally find one Mick willing to bury the hachet and some damn fool digs it up!!
To: jimtorr
Let's face it - Darwin is right.
23 posted on
09/01/2003 7:06:36 AM PDT by
sandydipper
(Never quit - never surrender!)
To: jimtorr
I'm going to Ireland next week.
I'm definitely bringing a shovel!
33 posted on
09/01/2003 8:17:59 AM PDT by
JohnnyZ
(Robot robot robot)
To: jimtorr
The axe probably dates from the early or late Mesolithic period in Ireland, around eight or nine thousand years ago," The operative word here is "probably." What do that stake their claim on? The word behind "probably" is "assumption." They give no objective means of dating this axe.
To: jimtorr
Did they find any wiskey next to it?
43 posted on
09/01/2003 10:01:41 AM PDT by
bmwcyle
(Here's to Hillary's book sinking like the Clinton 2000 economy)
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The warrantee probably expired.
46 posted on
09/01/2003 5:43:12 PM PDT by
Consort
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64 posted on
01/10/2005 11:51:06 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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