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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Stepping through time ...
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 18:07:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 18:07:29 1985
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	From an article submitted by Paul DuBois on behalf or
Ray Miller:

	[Mr. Miller found this related in a book published in
1842.  The author was talking with a professor at a university
in Georgia; the professor showed him a rock with some apparent
fossils of human footprints.]

>... it bore all the appearance of a plastic substance, impressed with
> human feet not more than one-eighth above the present natural size,
> and differing only from the impressions of modern feet, by the toes
> being more widely spread, as if never confined by shoes or sandals[.]
> Not far from this, there had recently been dug up the bones of some
> huge animal, much larger than those of any mastodon or mammoth
> hitherto discovered."

	I do not think this narrative is evidence that humans
were contemporary with dinosaurs.  Let us stipulate
that there is no deliberate fraud or false remembrance in the
story.  The problem is that we do not know the relation between the
stratum which contained the fossil footprints and that which
contained the fossil bones.  Nor do we know what the fossil
bones were.

Regards,
Chris

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