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From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: archeopteryx: THE PILTDOWN CHICKEN
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 17:00:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 17:00:13 1985
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In article <420@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>At least one writer on net.origins has asked about the state of the 
>archeopteryx these days.  An article by a Mr. Wm. Rusher appeared in the
...
>But now a group of modern investigators, including the very eminent cosmologist
>Sir Fred Hoyle, have denounced archeopteryx as a fraud, presumably committed
>by the late Dr. Haberlein.  Studying the Haberlein specimen in the British
>Museum of Natural History, they claim to have discovered microscopic evidences
>of hanky-panky, and charge that the famous early bird is simply a reptilian fossil decorated with imprints of chicken feathers.  Harking back to the famous 

As I remember, more than one archeopteryx specimen has been found.  Can anyone
confirm this?  If true, any hanky-panky in the Haberlein specimen could be
checked... (or would you claim that this too is a fake, as Duane Gish claims
all fossil remains of early man are?)

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Instutute of Technology

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