An archaeologist using the tactics of a Creationist. Pathetic.
You just can't trust scientists!
Of course they did, they're called DEMOC
s in the US and SPD in Germany.
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"At the end of the day it was about ambition."
This pretty much says it all.
It's a shame he didn't do it at an American University where we have academic freedom and the first amendment.
He would be promoted to the head of the department.
Good find FNU. Looks like Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens didn't mix. Teddy Kennedy must have been a one-off.
Don't mess with the U.S. He may have been caught because Americans questioned this scame.
People like Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten and Bill Clinton are giving cigar smokers a bad name.
The title of this article is obviously ridiculous. Science has not built its understanding of the modern history of mankind on the work of one crackpot. Science doesn't move forward based on one or two observations. Findings must be replicated by scientists from various parts of the world using their own equipment and measurments etc. Furthermore peers review the findings with a healthy skeptical eye.
Creationists don't understand how science works, only a creationist would ever think that science would have to be changed based on identifying one guy as a fraud. That's how I know a creationist wrote this headline.
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YEC INTREP - Anthropology - S&T
Some mormons (morons?) on bicycles came to my door (what's with the bicycle schtick?, the same guys drive an SUV at night when no one is looking), waste of time, seemed like pretend baptists, they are the real enemy. I think I will take a cruise to the Gallapagos and Machu Picchu next year and I will party all the way.
The skull fragment discovered in a peat bog near Hamburg was more than 36,000 years old - and was the vital missing link between modern humans and Neanderthals.
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Prof Protsch's work appeared to prove that anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals had co-existed, and perhaps even had children together.
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His discovery appeared to show that Neanderthals had spread much further north than was previously known. But his university inquiry was told that a crucial Hamburg skull fragment, which was believed to have come from the world's oldest German, a Neanderthal known as Hahnhöfersand Man, was actually a mere 7,500 years old
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Another of the professor's sensational finds, "Binshof-Speyer" woman, lived in 1,300 BC and not 21,300 years ago, as he had claimed, while "Paderborn-Sande man" (dated at 27,400 BC) only died a couple of hundred years ago, in 1750.
OK, he got the dates wrong. But do the bone fragments still belong to Neanderthal? Including the ones from 5,500 B.C., 1,300 B.C. and 1750 A.D.?
If so we have a HUGH and SERIES discovery of monumental proportions.
Everything I can find says that Neanderthal became extinct around 30,000 years ago. Does this article say that they survived till as recently as 1750? Even redating their extinction to 5,500 B.C. (7,500 years ago) would be a discovery worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Or is it simply as badly written as most other MSM tripe about science?
Enquiring minds want to know. And they'll probably believe whatever drivel Dan Blather and Peter Jennings shove down their throats.
Maybe this prof can team up with Ward Churchill and make a double header.
Bump for later reading.
