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"It’s even more interesting that there seems to be a belief that mineralization can occur over the span of just a few years"

The "Limestone Cowboy" exhibit of a cowboy boot manufactured in 1949 or 1950, filled with a fully fossilized foot and lower leg, has been viewed by close to 100,000 visitors, and examined by paleontologists and chemists. Do you attempt to hand wave that also?

Um, I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the Limestone Cowboy bandwagon. It is lame at best and another Young-Earth Creationist dirty trick at worst.. Look at the picture -- do they look like human bones? It's obvious from looking at them that they're not even fossilized.
I live less than 90 minutes from the dinosaur tracks at Glen Rose and I saw the boot 10 years or so ago. I was unimpressed. The "creationist museum" there is a joke. I don't know if they even still exhibit the boot.

The "Limestone Cowboy" exhibit of a cowboy boot manufactured in 1949 or 1950, filled with a fully fossilized foot and lower leg, has been viewed by close to 100,000 visitors, and examined by paleontologists and chemists. Do you attempt to hand wave that also?

Really? The very same "Limestone Cowboy" exhibit that Carl Baugh has removed from his dubious "museum?" The one that I can no longer find evidence of on the very museum website in which you cite? A museum which is full of fakes and nonsense as it is, which leads me to believe that the fake bones in plaster of Paris were even too silly for him to display.

You suggested that scientists would "hand-wave" away your Limestone Cowboy "evidence" but yet, the main proponent of it has made it disappear himself. Strange, no?

Stranger yet is that you continue to prop up this foolishness when clowns like "Dr" Baugh almost seem to revel in their fakery. Take, for instance, his own bio posted on his own site.

While it's funny enough that he lists is high school diploma, please also note that his Doctorate is in Theology (hardly makes him an expert on fossilization!) But wait, you scream, he has a Masters in Archaeology! Yeah. Right. From good ol' Pacific Collge of Graduate Studies. A creationist favorite to be sure. Why?

Because it's a FAKE COLLEGE and a DIPLOMA MILL, which has been well documented. (Of course, it must be noted that Carl Baugh was the president of this diploma mill in the late 80's, right when he received his first entirely phony doctorate in Philosophy.)

The university had no accreditation and offered doctorates for a lump sum payment. The fees ranged up to 2,500-3,000 USD for a Doctor of Theological Studies degree. The school has an "administrative office," but no campus, so no classes are held on site. There are no minimum educational requirements to apply other than two references, one academic and one church related.

I wonder, e-s, does this bother you in the least? Or will you "hand wave" this away too?