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TRANCOSO wrote:1#SUPPRESSED: New Evidence of Early Man
What happens when scientific evidence conflicts with theory? In the early sixties, discoveries were made in Central Mexico, which were the handiwork of early man. Exquisitely carved animal bones and advanced spear points caused much excitement, including a Life Magazine article, until the dates came in. 5 mutually exclusive geological tests revealed they were over 250,000 years old. In spite of the geochronology, archaeologists insisted the dates were too ridiculously old. This world-class archaeological region became off-limits for official research, a "professional forbidden zone."

Re: Michael Cremo: Forbidden History Of Our Planet [Re: Kismet]

I only watched the first few minutes, but generally their theme is that modern man has been on the planet for many millions of years. The claimed evidence are archaeological anomalies that (they say) show modern artifacts (or bones) being much much older then the general view.

The most obvious flaw is that if modern humans have been around so long, why are there only a few anomalous findings to support this (even if they really are anomalies, which I doubt), why are not such findings the norm?

Also Dr Thompson's degree is in mathematics and Cremo never finished college, so their credentials in archaeology are a bit lacking. To see if there is any sense to their claims at all you'd have to track down at least some of the claimed artifacts. On the surface it reminds me of Erich Von Danekn's claim that the statues on Easter Island could not possibly have been built and erected by the inhabitants without help from ET. Wow, amazing... until Thor Heyerdahl had the sense to ask the locals about them and got the response "oh sure we make those, would you like to see?" and was shown how it was all done, no ET required.

Take for example their claim (also used by many creationists) that there are fossilized human footprints alongside dinosaur prints in Texas. This claim has been throughly debunked. See http://www.badarchaeology.net/data/ooparts/paluxy.php and http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC101.html .
Without peer review the sort of claims made in the film are pretty meaningless.

Finally, as self proclaimed Vedic Creationists, I'm not so sure the authors have much ground to accuse others of a bias.

But, this carries validity; despite the presence of an unbelievable interviewer!




Raven And try to differentiate before you integrate!

TRANCOSO wrote:1#SUPPRESSED: New Evidence of Early Man
What happens when scientific evidence conflicts with theory? In the early sixties, discoveries were made in Central Mexico, which were the handiwork of early man. Exquisitely carved animal bones and advanced spear points caused much excitement, including a Life Magazine article, until the dates came in. 5 mutually exclusive geological tests revealed they were over 250,000 years old. In spite of the geochronology, archaeologists insisted the dates were too ridiculously old. This world-class archaeological region became off-limits for official research, a "professional forbidden zone."