PLAYER57832 wrote:Viceroy63 wrote: Viceroy63 wrote:In 1971 a heavy equipment operator made a startling discovery in a layer of Dakota Sandstone which is part of the Lower Cretaceous strata. The Lower Cretaceous strata is known for its dinosaur fossils according to the evolutionary time table and is supposedly 140 million years old. This is the same rock strata where numerous dinosaur fossils have been found at Dinosaur National Monument.
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The skeletons of ten perfectly modern human beings were found fifty eight feet down in the Dakota Sandstone. At least four of the individuals were female, one was an infant, and the rest were men. The amazing thing is that some of the fossils were articulated or found in their natural body positions which indicates they were quickly buried by some sort of catastrophic flood and mud slide.
You can read the rest of this at...
http://www.discoverynews.us/DISCOVERY%2 ... trata.html
hmmm, and yet it seems they missed several details in their "scientific analysis", in particular that the formation where these bones were supposedly found are not the "same as" those found in Dinosaur National Monument. (a pretty big error, that.. such sloppiness leads nothing to the credibility of the claim at all!)
In 1971 a rockhound named Lin Ottinger was leading a field trip in the Big Indian Copper Mine (more recently called the Keystone Azurite Mine) near Moab, Utah, when he discovered major portions of two human skeletons bearing an interesting greenish color. A bulldozer there had recently removed about 15 feet of overburden, revealing the bones and inadvertently damaging some of them. Within days the find was investigated by archaeologist John Marwitt, who at the time was serving as Field Director for the Utah Statewide Archaeological Survey.
Marwitt led the remainder of the excavation, describing the bones as resting in loose, poorly consolidated blowsand, in contrast to the consolidated, hard sandstone further from the bones, comprising the host formation at the site. He also indicated that all the bones were unfossilized, that is, not heavily altered or replaced with secondary minerals, and looked essentially modern, other than the greenish staining due to contact with the copper bearing sediments immediately surrounding the bones. Marwitt concluded that the bones were unquestionably intrusive burials, probably only hundreds of years old.
Marwitt conveyed his observations to a local reporter from the Times Independent newspaper in Utah, who also came to review the find. Unfortunately, as Marwitt later lamented, apparently the reporter was more interested in a "story" than the truth, and ended up presenting the find as a geologic "mystery" and ignoring much of what he described about it.
Subsequently strict creationist Clifford Burdick (1973) discussed the finds as likely out-of-place fossils in a CRSQ article, perhaps basing his article mainly on the newspaper account. The find was similarly sensationalized as "mysterious" in a longer story in Desert Magazine (Barnes, 1975), and a brief account in a 1978 book entitled Weird America by Jim Brandon, both of which neglected or misrepresented several aspects of Marwitt's observations.
During the mid-1980's Paluxy "man track" enthusiast Carl Baugh purchased one of the skeletons from Lin Ottinger. Baugh subsequently displayed the bones in his little "Creation Evidence Museum" in Glen Rose, Texas, as alleged examples of "out of order" fossils.
However, the largely unfossilized condition of the bones from the 1971 finds was personally confirmed by Ron Hastings and myself when we inspected them and visited with Lin Ottinger at his rock shop in Utah in 1988. Although we could not do any invasive work, we found, as others before us had, that the bones were rather were light-weight and largely modern appearing human bones, except for the green staining. Hastings, Kirk Person, and others also inspected the bones Baugh had in his museum around the same time, which appeared largely similar, that is, largely unfossilized.
In the late 1980's some of the bones were dated by a UCLA lab, yielding an age of 210 +/- 70 years (Berger and Protsch, 1989). Shortly thereafter Arthur Strahler (1989) published his book Science and Earth History, a chapter of which recounted the Moab Man saga. Later carbon dating tests on more recent excavations from the mine in the early 1990's yielded dates of 1450 +/- 90, with a calibrated one-sigma date range of AD 540 to AD 670, suggesting that the mine had been used by native Americans for at least several hundred years. (Coulam and Schroedl, 1995). However, the dates are consistent with intrusive burials, and contradict claims that the bones were part of the Mesozoic, Dakota Sandstone host rock, dated at approximately 100 million years by mainstream geology. Further corroboration of Marwitt's analysis is found in a draft of a book by researchers Eckert and Eckert (1979), who were dismayed by the failure of Burdick and other creationists to depict the Moab Man evidence fairly and accurately. For several years afterward the case seemed to be largely abandoned by most creationists.
In late 1997 and 1998 strict creationists Don Patton and David Willis claimed in an internet discussion group led by Jim Moore (which I participated in) that some green bones recently excavated in Utah represented stupendous anti-evolutionary evidence, showing supposed human bones in a Cretaceous deposit. They called the new finds as "Malachite Man" in reference to the green mineral malachite, the presumed source of the green color. However, the web site Willis referred us to, developed by Don Patton and his associate Dave Rudd, showed several photos which turned out to not be from recent excavations, but from the earlier excavations showing Lin Ottinger and the original "Moab Man" bones. A revised version of the web site, located at
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/malachite-man.htm better distinguishes between the 1971 and more recent finds, which did take place in the early 1990's. However, it omits most of the history described above and continues to make a number of unfounded claims about the site and bones, while neglecting mainstream work and writings, and even failing to cite creationist articles on the topic. Patton's web site (which he does not dispute as having been written by him, but which oddy omits his name as the author), states that the bones at the site included at least 10 individuals, including women and children, but provides no specific analysis of the bones to demonstrate how he came to this conclusion.
Patton's asserts that the bones under discussion contradict the geologic timetable and demonstrate that humans and dinosaurs lived together. The latter claim he attempts to bolster by stating that the bones are in the same Cretaceous, Dakota sandstone as the dinosaur bones at Dinosaur National Monument. However, as all geologists know, the bones at Dinosaur National Monument are in the Morrison formation, a Jurassic deposit, approximately 50 million years older than the Dakota Sandstone by conventional dating. Furthermore, since other workers report that the bones at Blue Indian/Keystone Azurite mine indicate that the bones were intrusive burials, the host formation is not particularly relevant to the case, even if it were the same as the one at Dinosaur National Monument, which it is not.
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The article goes on for a couple of pages, pretty well detailed, pointing out more inconsistencies and errors by the young earth claimers as well as contrasting their "findings" with the analysis by true scientists.
The full article can be found here:
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/moab-man.htmWhy is it that only those scientists who have creationist beliefs ever reach the types of conclusions you seem to think are "just given".. and instead say exactly the opposite?
You are more than welcome to bring up any example you think will prove your case.
Viceroy63 wrote:
So the question are:
1.)
Either modern man lived 65,000,000 years ago, or how else to you explain this?
There were some bones found, but as explained in the article I cited, the bones were not truly from the time of dinosaurs.
ONLY folks intent on trying to prove the earth young continue to cite this becuase it is just a nonsense claim.
The real question is why the young earth "scientists" insist on twisting every piece of data they get instead of just acting scientifically and reporting the facts as they actually happen?
Viceroy63 wrote:
2.)
Dinosaurs lived with man for thousands of years and there is some wrong with the explanation of the "Sedimentary Column" display used to explain evolution? And most importantly...
So, one find, shown to not be what you claim is enough to disabuse millions of other points of evidence?
Nice try, but no.
Viceroy63 wrote:
3.)
Why would this not make headlines all around the world?
I would think that a discovery like this would simply change everything!
It would, but most reporters do a better job of checking and verifying than this one guy who originally "reported' the story did.
Also, even if it were true a far more likely possibility would be that there were a remnant population of dinosaurs that persisted in that location into the time of human beings. in truth, the evidence does NOT show that the human remains existed in the time of dinosaurs at all, though.. it was a case of a false report, taken up by young earthers desperate to prove their "cause" and willing to pull up the flimsiest of "evidence".
Viceroy63 wrote:
So far I posted links that showed that Dinosaur Blood and Fresh DNA were discovered. Even Fresh Dinosaur Bone, not fossilized but recently dead dinosaurs bones.
We all know that there was DNA found in fossilized bones. The issue is your claim that this means they were fresh, rather than that the DNA was preserved. Your claim is just wrong. The information is remarkable, but not a dispute of evolution, as you try to claim.
Again, an honest reporter, scientists or student would address the real information and facts, not just pick out something that "seems to fit" and then proclaim it as proof that millions of points of real evidence are false.
Viceroy63 wrote:
Also I have posted links with the "Ica Stones" proving that man has seen living dinosaurs no more than 800 years ago tops and that the cave etchings by American Indians were also approximately 500 hundred years old.
YOu have shown some etchings and drawings, not proof that the people then saw living dinosaurs.
HOWEVER, even if they did, you have not explained why you believe this would utterly disprove evolution. Many ancient remnant populations have been found, in no way shape or form does this defeat the theory of evolution. Such claims just show that you don't understand the theory of evolution or what proof entails.... at all.
Viceroy63 wrote:
If it were just the Piltdown down man, then man, would I be so wrong and so very sorry and so humbly apologetic that it would embarrass even you. Oh, for shame, I would leave CC and not even come back under a different name because I would simply feel so terrible about myself, that my shame would not even let me get a good nights sleep. I would be a completely repented human being and ever so silent that I would not make another comment on any internet topics comments anywhere at all.
If it were just the piltdown man than you would be oh, so right in judging me a fool! But it is not just the Piltdown man but every single last exhibit that is used to portray evolution as factual and that is why I am not sorry in the least.
LOL
If you mean that almost every exhibit of human evolution has included that progression of man including the bit abotu "neaderthal to modern man", then sure, there are errors in most exhibits, though you fail to state that in most cases there is now (not in the past, but now) also an accompanying explanation to those drawings.
But... beyond that, I and others here have never disputed that there have been plenty of errors made in the study of evolution. You will find that to be the case in just about any field of science.. the broader and more encompassing, the more the errors. Errors and fraud, both. Errors are honest scientists who put forward ideas that wind up being proven false... of course you neglect the part about even the original submissions of these errors present them as theories or ideas, not "absolute facts". Per the fraud.. sure, you get thousands of people doing anything and some will be frauds (or steal or embezzle.. etc).
Happens in every (large) Christian church, too.
I have pointed out one very classic example.. that of the the 2 guys who finally proved that ulcers come from bacteria, and who got the nobel laureate just recently, but who up until shortly before that were considered laughing stocks. Unlike young earthers, though, they did not go out and make a campaign to say every other scientist was presenting false data, lying. They DID say other scientists were mistaken in their conclusions and just went about proving their case.
Viceroy63 wrote:
I also used to believe that evolution was true and even spoke in support of evolution but when I really looked at it, What was I really supporting and why? I am the kind of person that would not tell my own children that there is a Santa Claus. And believe me that when your young children know the truth and tell your neighbors young children the truth, you hear about it from your neighbors! Not the children but the parents. "What the hell is wrong with you sir...."
But I don't want my children growing up believing that I ever lied to them about anything and for nothing, and so I simply don't practice it.
WElll, too bad.. as long as you continue on this creationist track you are perpetuating a lie... and since you seem to tie it so heavily to your faith, you will find that they wind up challenging that as well.
Believe me, I have talked to more than a few young earthers going through crisis when they studied real biology and geology in the university.