Posted on 02/05/2004 5:52:19 AM PST by syriacus
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Denying a request by American Indian tribes who sought an immediate burial, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday that scientists should be allowed to continue testing on a 9,000-year-old skeleton.
"It's terrific," said Robson Bonnichsen director of Texas A&M University's Center for the Study of the First Americans and a plaintiff in the case. "The court has upheld the principle for scientific study of very early human remains."
The legal battle pitting Bonnichsen and seven other scientists against the U.S. government and Indian tribes dates back to 1996, after two teenagers discovered a skeleton near the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington.
Scientists dated the "Kennewick Man" remains as 8,340 to 9,200 years old, yet it was a puzzling find because its features differed from those of American Indians. Scientists hoped further study would shed light on early North Americans.
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Genocide?
Now we're getting silly here. Inferior cultures come and go. Dozens have been lost to the dust bin of history. If the Indians could have eliminated the white man, they would have done so without a second thought.
Now, the only thing that keeps their culture alive is liberal mind set and PC. Like a big flock of pets. Sad.
When you win the Nobel Prize in any of the sciences, we can start taking you seriously.
A big mouth and an inflated opinion of yourself isn't quite enough.
Sorry.
... if not spelling or rational scientific thought...
To YOU maybe. You religion and your ideas are not universal.
PS "he's dead Jim" <---- that's too funny
Yes, Genocide.
Now we're getting silly here. Inferior cultures come and go. Dozens have been lost to the dust bin of history. If the Indians could have eliminated the white man, they would have done so without a second thought.
I can say the same about other people. And you are wrong. You do not understand my culture. Killing to extermination is not and was not an "Indian thing".
Now, the only thing that keeps their culture alive is liberal mind set and PC. Like a big flock of pets. Sad.
I find this insulting. I endure every other religion, PC cr@p about "special people" that you can't question but my people and my religion are false? We are here because of leftism? You make me sick. My family served and defended this country for you and yours and this is what you think?
I pity people like you, you are what is wrong with the Right.
ahh, you must be superior. You are resorting to picking nits, I'm at work, I can't play all day...
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