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Forum: Theological Expressions
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Out Great(x1000) Grandad's were Africans !??? (CH)
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So Theory of Evolution must be false (Interested )
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Clarification (Seeker)
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Hi Seeker.... (edmund)
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Hi Edmund (Seeker)
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Hi Seeker more... (edmund)
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Believing and seeing (Seeker)
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Websites of the articles? (edmund)
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Links (Seeker)
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How about reptile to mammal evolution? (Seeker)
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Much ado about nothing? (Benjamin)
Date: 2001, May 30
From: Seeker

Hi Benjamin: Funding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Putnam Funds and Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. The article was published in the prestigious Science journal. I guess one could even try to contact the researchers themselves since they have made it public. Dr. Zhe-Xi Luo Section of Vertebrate Paleontology Carnegie Museum of Natural History (412) 622-6578 luoz@carnegiemuseums.org Museum Public Affairs contact: Dan Lagiovane (412) 622-3361 Lagiovaned@carnegiemuseums.org Professor Alfred W. Crompton Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University (617) 495-3202 Harvard Public Affairs contact: Dr. Jay L. Taft (617) 495-5891 jtaft@oeb.harvard.edu Professor Ai-Lin Sun Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chinese Academy of Sciences It just seems unlikely to me that these scientists, collaborating across two continents, and the organisations backing them will risk their reputations on something that is nothing, or half-baked, or erroneous, or even fraudulent. I guess this illustrates your point about us having the same evidence but viewing it differently. I don't think I can answer the technical questions like how they do their dating (radiometric, carbon, etc), or what other prior evidence are already available to support certain assumptions (or givens) in their research. But I do think that the peer review system and the scientific spotlight will expose any faults with their research should they exist. ------------------------------------------------------------- One interesting thing though. You asked: >>>How did they know when the animal live? What kind of tests were done and how reliable are they?<<< and >>>How did they know that?<<< These are exactly the same type of questions I asked when thinking about religion's claims about the existence of god(s) and intelligent design. I asked Edmund this before: Do you use the same standards when assessing the "evidence" (if any) for god? ------------------------------------------------------------- Btw, if I got the same persons you quoted, Robert Etheridge (1819 - 1903) and William Dawson (circa mid 1800 to early 1900?) are contemporaries of Darwin (1809 - 1882). Quite a lot more evidence have been uncovered since then. Regards.