Re: Human pretending to be a frog nearly drowns.....

"Day Brown" <daybrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ULT9g.47$4T.112751@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I've read that Alaskan crab fishermen routinely drag up flint points from the submerged
coastline. If you wanna find out if people lived on the coastline in prehistoric times, then
you have to dive down to where it now is.

The sea did not suddenly advance, leaving
the ancient coast looking pretty much as it
used to be. (Or let's just say that it's not likely
that it did.) It is much more likely that it took
hundreds of years to advance slowly, eating
up the ground, converting it to beach, often
slowly retreating over a few decades, and then
advancing again; and usually doing this time
after time. This process will grind up all soft
fossils, and nearly all flint points that are
encountered. We finish up with layers of sand
and mud at the bottom of the sea, and there's
little point in looking, even if we can.

Then some 'scientists' like Olsen come along,
see fossils only on high ground that was
rarely, if ever, covered by the sea in the past
few Myr, and decide that the species was
always a 'high-ground-living' animal.

That makes sense.

It's what's known as classic PA.


Paul.



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