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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
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Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 10:58:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 24 10:58:56 1985
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>[R. Miller writes]
> Someone passed the following into my hands the other day. ........ 
>..................................  One extra note, however:  no one can accuse
> the Soviet Union of having a "creationist bias".  In fact, this is the *last*
> thing I would expect to see in Pravda.
> 
>Yu. Kruzhilin and V. Ovcharov, "A Horse from the Dinosaur Epoch?" Translated by
> A. James Melnick, MOSKOVSKAYA PRAVDA, Feb. 5, 1984.
> 
>    Soviet paleontologists have discovered the fossilized tracks of an unknown
> species of perissodactyles (odd-toed animals) in the spurs of the Gissar Moun-
> tains in southern Uzbekistan near the village of Baysun.  Even by itself, such
> a find would be a sensation.  However, what it later turned out to be was a
> "bolt out of the blue".  An analysis of the rocks, which were taken to Tash-
> kent, indicated that their age was about 90 million years old!
>    The paleontologists on the expedition immediately thought of comparing the
> 86 horse-shoe-shaped tracks with equine imprints of hoofs.  In any case, one
> could talk about animals very much resembling the horse.  Here, though, the
> scholars came to a deadlock - you see, the horse has existed on this planet in
> its present form for only about one and a half million years!

    This Soviet discovery proves my claims - posted last year to the net -
that Creationism is a Soviet conspiracy aimed to undermine science education
in the US. 

     I am sure that some of you will say that this is not a very
convincing proof.  Why not?  Don't creationists pick up any fake, 
irrelevant, questionable, and out of context piece of information that 
"seem" to fit their "theory".  Am I not entitled to the same privilege?
I am only asking for fairness and equal time!
-- 

Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho