Folks,
Sorry about that. Even though I spent too much time on the last post I
didn't proof it quite well enough.
I did not give you the right url for Art Chadwick piece on the human
prints. It should be: http://www.grisda.org/reports/or14_33.htm
I should have said Henry Morris retraction and not recitation (I think
that must have been a spell checker's error). And in looking again at
the retraction it is obvious that Henry is leaving the door open to some
tracks possibly being human even though some he previously thought were
human, he now thinks are likely dinosaur. I think it still demonstrates
more of a willingness than we might like to change a position when
shown that the evidence does not support it.
On the other hand, I don't see Carl Bough or the person who sometimes
collects for him, Joe Taylor (Fossil Facts and Fantasies - report on
Baugh's Brudick print and others), showing the same caution. Both cite
prints and out of place fossils with little caution (although Joe deals
superficially with some of Kuban's objections) and I am afraid that both
do not give the reader the impression that good questions have arisen
about the authenticity of the fossils they use and it also gives the
impression that such out of place fossils are quite rare. Carl should at
least refer to the work that Glen Kuban has done on analyzing his print
(see url: http://members.aol.com/Paluxy2/wilker5.htm). It is true that
there is too much caution in reporting anomalies in the standard
literature (I have seen that more than once), so reporting them is fine
- but to do so without making any mention of valid doubts about the
print as Baugh does on his web site is in my mind close to fraudulent.
It of course, makes it easier for folks (layfolks) who have not dug into
the literature to cite weak evidence for their position and then sets
them up to be dismissed as accepting "poor science."
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