Posted on 08/06/2007 7:10:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Houston PING
Granted, you live in an ulna universe.
How do we know the touring Lucy isn't also a replica. I don't imagine they're going to let anyone actually touch or examine the exhibit. What's your thought?
Could you tell the difference just by sight?
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Because the monkey is extinct? There's a certain fascination with that. We wish we could see the real animal cavorting, but I guess this is the next best thing. Oh, yes, and there are those who believe that monkey is their grandma.
I don't see anyone involved in this wishing to go to the slammer for felony fraud. They will be raising money from this, and would be criminally liable if this is a fake!
At the distance the observers will be at, probably not. The casts of fossil specimens are remarkably accurate--they have to be!
The vast majority of researchers who study these specimens do so from the casts. The only areas that differ in the specimens I have studied are the color and weight.
The color is generally quite close in the good casts, but look at the different colors in the various Mrs. Ples casts!
Did you miss post 7?
How far away was Lucy’s kneebone (the central bone that made her different from monkeys) found away from the rest of the bones? About as far as my house from the nearest McDonalds?
I’d have to check on that one. I’m a half mile away here myself if so.
Another creationist lie. Here is the real story:
Claim CC003:But will creationists ever stop propagating that lie?The knee of the "Lucy" fossil (the most complete Australopithecus afarensis fossil) was found over a mile away from the rest of the skeleton, so it cannot be used as evidence that Lucy walked upright. That evolutionists have never admitted this fact in print shows their dishonesty.
Source:
Willis, Tom. 1987. "'Lucy' goes to college," Bible-Science Newsletter (Oct.), 1-3. Morris, John D. 1989. Was 'Lucy' an ape-man? Back to Genesis 11b (Nov.). http://web.archive.org/web/20041011063219/http://www.icr.org/pubs/btg-b/btg-011b.htm
Response:
1. The claim is false. The skeleton called Lucy does not have an intact knee. A different, isolated knee fossil was found two to three kilometers away (Johanson and Edey 1981). Confusion over the two fossils apparently led to the false claim.
2. Far from indicating evolutionist dishonesty, this claim shows how creationists fail to check their claims (Lippard 1999).
Nope. You are the latest victim of the creationist websites, whose main goal seems to be to gain believers, and donors, by deception.
Keep Bill Clinton away from her. I really don’t need to know whether he’d be interested in “dating” a 3-million year old hominid.
Don Johanson was a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History when the bones were found. They were brought back to Cleveland and studied for a number of years before returning to Ethiopia. The museum owns the casting rights for specimens and I think the only other replica is in Ethiopia. I guess they don’t even display the real thing. I’ve seen the replica and they sure look old and ‘real,’ but I have never seen them side-by-side. So unless you picked them up, who would know?
Is it true that she's touring with the Rolling Stones?
We sure are suckers. We fund museums and their staffs to buy treasures which they lock away from the public. Only experts get to see the storerooms. It is fun to go behind the scenes, but not for the public.
Keep Bill Clinton away from Lucy. He might attain his super horny mode like he did to that teenage mummy a few years back.
Ever been in the famous rock art-bearing caves in Spain and France?
The effects of one or two visitors are negligible, but when its millions of visitors it adds up quick. Just the temperature and humidity changes from breathing endangers those fragile paintings.
Why do you think there are "Please don't walk on the lawn" signs in some heavily-trafficked areas?
Same reason you don't you walk all over flower beds.
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