Evolutionists in disarray

The following post from an archaeology newsgroup, may be of interest to this
group.

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People may remember this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4650307.stm

'"Some lake sediments were incorporated into the ash and were baked.
They look like small fragments of brick and these were the ones we
dated in the footprint layer. They gave us a result of 38,000
years," Dr Gonzalez.'

Some of us were just a tad skeptical of this claim (I don't think I've
seen any claim by Sylvia Gonzalez that has impressed me).

But see this:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/uoc--a4h112805.php

"But Paul Renne, director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and an
adjunct professor of earth and planetary science at UC Berkeley, and his
colleagues in Mexico and at Texas A&M University report in the Dec. 1
issue of Nature a new age for the rock: about 1.3 million years.

"You're really only left with two possibilities," Renne said. "One is that
they are really old hominids - shockingly old - or they're not
footprints." "

""They're scattered all over, with no more than two or three in a straight
line," which would be expected if someone had walked through the ash,
Renne said. If the depressions were footprints, they could not have been
made by modern humans, he noted, since even in Africa, Homo sapiens did
not appear until about 160,000 years ago. Given the age of the volcanic
rock and lacking other evidence of early human ancestors in the Americas
1.3 million years ago, the researchers wrote in their paper, "we consider
such a possibility to be extremely remote." "

The original and short discussion here can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/be3n2

Doug
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As I recall, the original claim was advanced as evidence that humans were in
the Americas earlier than previously thought.

You'll notice that both the claim and the rebuttal are by evolutionists -
creationists have no input into the affair - and the major reason for
rejecting the claim is that humans couldn't possibly have been around 1.3
million years ago. (I have not seen any pictures of the alleged footprints,
but it occurs to me that if the individuals concerned had indeed been
walking through hot ash, they would be very unlikely to walk in a calm
straight line, but leaping about all over the place would be a highly likely
behaviour.)

God bless,
Kendall K. Down



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