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05-23-2003, 10:09 AM
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Designed 400,000 year old figurine?
A great example of how design detection (or non-design detection) actually works.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047383.stm Think that the following is a designed artifact, or is all the "design" coming from the interpreter?  nic |
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05-23-2003, 11:00 AM
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I think it's either Paleoporn like those "Venus" figurines, or a sculpture of Barney the Dinosaur. From a live model.
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05-23-2003, 11:04 AM
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If you look at it standing on your head it kind of looks like a bunny.
Of course, you could just invert the picture I guess, but it still looks a bit like a bunny. |
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05-23-2003, 11:16 AM
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I have analyzed portable rockart that used natural features of a stone as a "starting point" (not figurines however).
Microscopic examination at 10X to 60X is generally all one needs to identify worked surfaces, particularly pecked groves. I would not be too surprised if this were an artifact. |
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05-23-2003, 11:31 AM
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It looks like the foot of a pig or some other kind of hoofed mammal... which was designed, of course!
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05-23-2003, 01:29 PM
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Show us the other side first.
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05-23-2003, 02:54 PM
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Possibly a Venus, possibly merely a natural formation. But maybe it's a coprolite left behind by Adam and is really only 6,000 years old. I think that it should be sent to AiG for a detailed examination by their expert, creation scientists. Only then will the Truth set us free.
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05-23-2003, 06:16 PM
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Doov, I think either the Morris boys at ICR or Dr Hovind himself might be even better authorities on coprolites.
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05-23-2003, 06:44 PM
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05-25-2003, 06:03 AM
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I've always wondered about this:
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