[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.

I wonder if these would have been the Firmanaugh of Irish legend. Surely not the Faerie.

[John Beresford Tipton]

fyi

[Jim Noble]

Orcs

[jimtorr]

.....Firmanaugh.......

I think my memory is faulty on that one. That's the name of a county.

[Dr Warmoose]

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?

[Prof Engineer]

ping

[KantianBurke]

"Its mine! Give it back!"

[muir_redwoods]

Great! we finally find one Mick willing to bury the hachet and some damn fool digs it up!!

[sandydipper]

Let's face it - Darwin is right.

[JohnnyZ]

I'm going to Ireland next week.

I'm definitely bringing a shovel!

[LiteKeeper]

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.

[bmwcyle]

Did they find any wiskey next to it?

[Consort]

The warrantee probably expired.

[Cultural Jihad]

Pictured...

[SunkenCiv]

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