On Sep 26, 12:00 pm, chris thompson <
chris.linthomp...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 26, 11:50 am, Mitchell Coffey <
mitchell.cof...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:05:05 AM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote:
> > > Given the number of fakes out forth I find it questionable. Archeraptor, Neanderthals teeth out of occlusion to look primitive,PiltdownMan, and more.
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> > Why is it people like you always claim there are many such examples, but you only mention the same 1 to four, most of them old cases, and misrepresent all at that?
I haven't seen any misrepresentations of Piltdown Man, unless it is
that just about every paleontologist was fooled, which is not the case
-- but then, I don't think this misrepresentation is unique to
creationists.
> Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell....shame on you! They always have a fall
> back withNebraskaMan, you know. And after that,
> there's...there's...uh, lemme get back to you. I'm really busy right
> now, the sun's in my eyes, I tripped on an unseen imaginary deceased
> turtle (you have to have RPG'd using Arm's Law to get that one), and
> uhh, you know....
>
> Chris
If creationists were as intersted in paleontology as I am, you'd have
more examples, but almost all of them are content to rely on the
readings of others. [Not that creationists have a monopoly on that
kind of "parasitism."]
My own favorite "Nebraska Man" analogue is the marsupial
*Palorchestes.* For decades it was classified as a kangaroo, of
record height. You can see it listed in Romer's _Vertebrate
Paleontology_, and his _Man and the Vertebrates_ has a photo of a
mural in the Field Museum of Chicago showing several of them, with an
estimate of ten feet for their heights, and with several *Diprotodon*
in the background.
Books for youngsters, including Scheele's _The First Mammals_, also
had it as a giant kangaroo, IIRC up to 12 feet in height. Another
such book whose title and author I've forgotten featured a picture of
it along with one of what was then thought to be a close second in
height, the short-faced kangaroo *Procoptodon*, now recognized as the
record holder.
As more bones came to light, it was realized that *Palorchestes* was
nothing like a kangaroo. Reproductions now have it looking like a
cross between a tapir and a ground sloth.
By the way, I've added sci.bio.paleontology to the newsgroups. I'm
always hungry for good material for that newsgroup.
Peter Nyikos
Professor, Dept. of Mathematics -- standard disclaimer--
University of South Carolina
http://www.math.sc.edu/~nyikos/
nyikos @
math.sc.edu
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> > By the way, Neanderthal bones identified as such long before DNA was known turn out to have Neanderthal DNA in them. They're the real deal.
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