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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <690@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 15:09:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 15:09:30 1985
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <702@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:
>
>>      Your last point is well taken -- we have not found any fossils which
>> can be attributed to non-regressed animals.  Wouldn't I love it if we would
>> find an anti-diluvian man (since the Bible teaches that these men were
>> giants).  On the otherhand I would like to submit to you that Bison never
>> roamed the plains of the United States, because we have never found a fossil
>> of one. 
>
>I'm glad to see you've conceeded one point.  But you are wrong about bison
>fossils.  There are abundant deposits of bison bones in varying states of
>fossilization.

	Yes indeed, in fact for a good sample of them on prominent
display why not try the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. And not only fossil
Bison, but fossil wolves and numerous other forms.
	As for the "anti-diluvian man" business, what about
Gigantopithecus, a rather large man-like ape known from a few
fragmentary fossils? :-)
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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