Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"

/\/\ (raven@kaiwan.com)
21 Nov 1996 14:05:59 -0800

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In article <56proj$78@news.ptd.net>, edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad) wrote:
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>macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca (Andrew MacRae) wrote:
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>(and Ed Conrad eventually will respond)
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>>In article <56fao1$6ta@news.ptd.net> edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad)
>>writes:
>>|Michael Clark <mclark@skypoint.com> wrote:
>>|>On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Ed Conrad wrote:
>>|>> To my mind, the ONLY physical anthropologist who possessed scientific
>>|>> integrity in a search for honest answers to legitimate questions about

>>|>> man's origin and ancestry was the late Dr. Earnest A. Hooton, longtime

>>|>> professor of anthropology at Harvard University.

>

>>|>(T)ed? Do you know any LIVING anthropologists?

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>>|Quite frankly, no!

>>|Oh, I do know of some who are still walking and talking because

>>|I see them on TV every once in a while, usually after an ``incredible

>>|discovery" like the time they claimed to have found Little Lucy's

>>|fossilized babushka.

>>|

>Says Ed:

>Finding a fossilized babushka is stated in jest, obviously. But it is

>no more ridiculous than pronouncements by segements of the scientific

>community of hairbrained ``discoveries" in recent years.

>

>For example, the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.

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>No proof, Andrew! N-O-N-E.

>

>In fact, recent new-found ifnormation about distant outer space -- via

>the Hubble Telescope, for example -- indicate that the universe could

>not possibly have been created this way.

>

>The Big Bang Theory is as ridiculous as the erroneous, preposterous

>theory that the gradiose, incredibly varied assortment of living

>things -- man, especially -- had evolved from a single-cell organism,

>despite the astronomically incredible odds against such an

>eventuality.

>

>| But, unfortunately, as anyone who follows their rather mechanical

>|straight-from-the-book irrational establishment-protecting commentary

>|is well aware, they (members of the anthropological ``community'')

>|are actually brain dead zombies.

>

>> -- So, the answer is, yes, Ed knows some living archaeologists. No,

>>he can not name even one that supports his claims. He apparently

>>attributes this to professional bias, and considers them "brain dead

>>zombies" as a result.

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>I state emphatically that every single anthropologist with whom I have

>deal over these past 15-16 years has been a fraud and a phony.

>

>They include Alan Mann at the University of Pennsylvania, Robert

>Eckhardt at Penn State University, some turkey from the Smithsonian

>Institution, Milford Wollford at . . .(I foget, he's lucky I even

>remember his brain-boggling name), David Pilbeam (a a real horse's

>ass), Stephen Jay Gould . . .and the bigwigs like Johanson, Leakey,

>Leakey's mother, etc.etc. etc., who did not even have the courtesy to

>respond to information and photographs I had sent them.

>

>Every single one of them either shot me down with nonsensical rhetoric

>or wanted nothing whatsoever to do with involvement in honest

>investigation.

>

>All they were doing, Andrew MacRae, was protecting the party line.

>

>> -- Thanks for clearing that up, Ed. I suppose the same attitude is

>>applied to every living geologist and paleontologist you know too?

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>Oh, I could recite a litany of names of geologists and paleontologists

>with whom I have dealt and who, no different than the anthropologists,

>have refused to budge in their brainwashed thinking.

>

>I could sit for an HOUR writing their names -- but all I will say is

>that they almost all have been as concrete-skulled as Henry Barwood

>(one of the persistent howlers on talk.origins).

>

>Apparently, all they know is what they've read in books.

>And the books say it just can't be.

>

>> -- Does your bigotry have any bounds within the set of people who

>>disagree with your claims? Or is that its defining feature? In other

>>words, are there any people out there who disagree with your

>>interpretation, but whose opinions you respect?

>

>Yes, indeed!

>They were the late Wilton M. Krogman, author of ``The Human Skeleton

>in Forensic Medicine," and the late Raymond M. Dart, M.D., both of

>whom examined my specimens openmindly and stated -- to my face AND in

>writing -- that I definitely have discovered petrified bone in

>Pennsylvania's coal fields.

>

>Sadly, even their colleagues in the scientific community paid them no

>attention because the powerful force of vested interests -- and

>self-protection -- was so overwhelming.

>

>> -- Will you ever talk about scientific evidence again, Ed, or is this

>>pathetic rant the most you can muster these days? <Shrug> You just

>>ignore my postings anyway, so I do not really expect an answer (versus a

>>reply -- not all replies are answers), but I would like to be surprised.

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>Andrew, my intriguing awesome array of petrified bones and petrified

>soft organs found between anthracite veins is indeed scientific

>evidence.

>

>The problem, sadly, is that you and your colleagues continued to deny

>it. You see only what you want to see -- and nothing more!

>

>The human skull embedded in the boulder most dramatically resembles

>the contour of a human skull -- and Ted Holden, right now, has in his

>possession another photograph which will prove visually that the

>colored material in the interior of the boulder IS a human skull,

>emphaticaly proving man not only existed during the time of the coal

>formations but was a great deal larger.

>

>> -- Can we talk about your thin section data, or is that irrelevant to your

>>claims now?

>

>For the record, Andrew, I'll gladly talk about my thin section data

>anytime.

>And every time I talk about I'll bring up your ridiculous assumption

>that the Haversian systems visible in non-petrified bone should be a

>mirror image of what is visible while examining petrified bone.

>

>Repeating: The petrification process causes the removal -- the

>disappearance -- of the structure surrounding the Haversian canals.

>But the canals, thank goodness, remain forever.

>

>They do not vanish because, being canals (or tunnels or holes or

>passageways), there was nothing there to be displaced during the

>petrification process.

>

>As for your home page, Andrew, there's no question that you're

>displaying a variety of pretty pictures of what the cell structure of

>non-petrified bone looks like.

>

>The paramount question, however, is NOT what the cell structure of

>non-petrified bone looks like. Instead, it is: What does the cell

>structure of PETRIFIED BONE look like?

>

>> -Andrew

>> macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca

>> home page: http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae

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>I've said it before. I'll say it again (this time dedicated to Andrew

>MacRae:

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>>>> MAN AS OLD AS COAL

>

>Physical evidence currently exists that proves man inhabited the earth

>while coal was being formed, shaking the very foundations of who we

>really are and how we really got here.

>

>An assortment of human bones and soft organs, transformed to rocklike

>hardness, has been discovered between anthracite veins in the

>Carboniferous-dated coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania over the past

>15 years.

>

>Since one of the golden rules of geology is that coal was

>formed during the Carboniferous a minimum of 280 million years ago it

>means that man had existed multi-millions of years before the initial

>emergence of the monkeylike, cat-size insectivore from whom the

>evolutionists claim we eventually evolved.

>

>However, the scientific establishment has wielded its powerful

>disdainful influence -- deceipt, dishonesty, collusion and conspiracy

>-- to prevent evidence of the most important discovery of the 20th

>century to be documented as fact and, therefore, keep us from learning

>a monumental truth about ourselves.

>

>I assure you I know what I'm talking about because I discovered these

>petrified human remains and have had a ringside seat to the scientific

>establishment's despicable antics of suppressing an aresenal of

>physical evidence.

>

>The degree of dishonesty to which I have been subjected is almost

>beyond belief. I had to have a postal inspector inspect files in a

>post office in California to catch one university in a mammoth lie

>regarding testing.

>

>Even worse, the nation's most prestigious scientific institution

>actually was caught tampering with physical evidence that had been

>submitted for testing.

>

>In the future, I hope to provide the full details of these and other

>horror stories to which I have been subjected.

>

>Only the late, great Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, who also had been put

>through the wringer by the vested interests of corrupt scientists,

>could comprehend what I have experienced because he also

>had been victimized by their shameful, disgraceful shenanigans.

>

>It is rather ironic that my discoveries of of petrified carboniferous

>bones may be the evidence that Velikovsky was correct

>in his claim that mankind had been subjected to catastrophic

>atmospheric-connected disturbances in the far-distant past.

>

>This is because almost every specimen of petrified bone I have found

>between coal veins is cleanly broken, indicating they all had been

>subjected to an event almost beyond our comprehension.

>

>My first discovery was made quite by accident while searching for leaf

>fossils in shale (or slate) in June 1981.

>

>At the time I had no idea of its significance but, fortunately, kept

>returning to the same area to do more searching and discovered many

>more specimens.

>

>At the time I believed that anthropologists and paleontologists were

>upright, and sought their opinion of my discoveries in good faith. But

>in each and every case my specimens were called concretions --

>certainly not petrified bone -- even though opinions were based

>strictly on visual observation, without testing of any kind.

>

>When I eventually realized I was getting the runaround and not an

>honest, scientific appraisal, I began doing my homework and eventually

>concluded that these anthropologists and paleontologists were

>shrugging me off out of fear and to protect their vested interests.

>

> When physical evidence surfaces that disproves the evolutionists'

>theory about man's ancestry and origin, the scientific establishment's

>"party line" must be protected at all cost.

>

>The scientific community may have gotten away with such behavior in

>the past. Fortunately, the World Wide Web has changed all that.

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