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Title: Human fossils date: Take it with 'a bushel basket of salt'
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URL Source: https://www.onenewsnow.com/science- ... t-with-a-bushel-basket-of-salt
Published: Jun 12, 2017
Author: aa
Post Date: 2017-06-12 09:09:12 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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A Christian biologist is downplaying news reports that new human fossils in Morocco have been dated to be 300,000 years old. Dr. David Menton, speaker, author, and researcher with Answers in Genesis, wonders what the big deal is. "The newspapers and popular news media are going bananas over this for what? I even wonder whether the people writing the articles know what the excitement is," Dr. Menton comments. "It's not an ape-man. It's a human, a 100-percent human. The question is how old is it?" The biologist points out that scientists have been finding fossil bones in Morocco going back as far as 1960. In fact, most of the bones used in this current study were found between 2007 and 2011. He says this latest study is considered newsworthy because thermoluminescence dating was used. But Dr. Menton cautions this dating has to be taken with "a bushel basket of salt" because all dating methods involve assumptions. "You weren't there to make these assumptions, and these assumptions have to apply during the entire time," he continues. "So if you're saying something is measured to be 300,000 years old, your assumptions have to apply throughout the 300,000 years – no water, no radiation, no exposure to sunlight." He explains this Morocco site has made many attempts to date materials since 1960. "And what can you say? The dates are all over the place," Dr. Menton states. 
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
"It's not an ape-man. It's a human, a 100-percent human.?"
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