Re: mixed up bones in B-S

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:56:46 -0500

At 9:36 AM 2/3/97, McCarrick, Allan wrote:
>In an article in Bible Science Newsletter (30:3), Paul Bartz makes a
>reference to a "phosphate rock... in southeastern United States" where
>bones of "rhinocerous, mammoths...human bones and Hadrosaurus bones" are
>found mixed together. Of course there is no reference to look up.
>
....

>Another more recent issue of this news letter refers to a bone bed on a
>ranch owned by a "Christian cowboy". The owner objected to the
>paleontologists evolutionary lectures and is having a group of
>creationists (ie YE only) perform the dig. I believe the owners name is
>"Hanson". The article stated that the dig began in 1989, but
>creationists have been working up to 1996.
>
I can't help, but I'd recommend calling Bible Science Newsletter. Perhaps
you can elicit more information from them. Aren't they published by Tenth
Pres in Philly? Some of these publications might be convinced to either
have good sources and cite them or cease and desist from taking potshots
outside their area of expertise if they were held accountable for their
statements.

Bill Hamilton
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