[Responding to "How are Neanderthals hoaxes? How is Java a hoax? How is Lucy a hoax?"]
the fact that they are frauds would make them hoaxes.
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I guess you have a mountain of proofs for your statement, much larger than those in favor of Neanderthals, Java and Lucy being facts. Otherwise you would not be so cock-sure, right?
"How are Neanderthals frauds? How is Java a fraud? How is Lucy a fraud?"
Jamietron, your next task is to answer these questions without replacing the word 'fraud' with the word 'hoax' (or any of its synonyms).
I won't hold my breath.
I assume this poster is referring to two popular Hovindisms:
1) Lucy was a composite of several unrelated skeletons, including a knee bone found half a mile away from the rest of the bones
2) What people call "Neanderthal Man" was just the skeleton of an old man who was deformed by rickets and spent many years walking hunched over due to having severe arthritis for many years.
Considering the fact that these, uhm, pearls of wisdom came from Hovind, you may take them for what they are worth.
Lucy's species is a rare find and not many samoles exist, so I can see how creationists see a target there.
Neanderthals however are numerous with many complete samples. So many that SOME have been found to have conditions that plague humans (and yes, Hovind did ignore the hundreds found that didn't and tried to pretend only those existed and were deformed humans)
But in Fundieland they'll accept ANY attack on science and cling to it as strongly as they do to gospel, (some gospel anyway) there's no winning with them, anyone who proclaims Biblical belief can claim any expertise and be wholey accepted.
@The Last Conformist
(OTOH, the other day I saw a picture of Ms Hayek, and thought South American Land Mammal Age.)
Well, she most definitely has mammary glands
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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