Nebraska Man: What's Wrong with this Picture?

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He needs a haircut? Or is he from the sixties? "A refugee from a gorilla love in." Just guessing.

Ever wonder why most of -- if not all of -- these guys are drawn as hippies?

Put 'em all together, and you'd think you're at Woodstock.
 
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3. bastardizes academia to acadelmia
Imagine that: deflecting to an absolute minor point, so to obfuscate the essence: that you try to smear science, and have only ridicue by lack of valid arguments.

Pluto is finally getting some respect — not from astronomers, but from wordsmiths.

"Plutoed" was chosen 2006's Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting Friday.

To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.


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Oh, I still gave you too much credit. I will assess you lower then.
 
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Imagine that: deflecting to an absolute minor point, so to obfuscate the essence: that you try to smear science, and have only ridicue by lack of valid arguments.

How's that working out for me?

Oh, I still gave you too much credit. I will assess you lower then.

Ditto for the American Dialect Society?

(Be careful, the ADS, according to their website:

Our members include academics and amateurs, professors and students, professionals and dilettantes, teachers and writers, undergraduates and graduates. Anyone can join the society!)

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Or are you selective?
 
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Then who named it Hesperopithecus haroldcookii?

I don't buy into the idea that scientists knew better from the get-go.
According to Nebraska Man - Wikipedia , the name was first used by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1922, in a paper entitled 'Hesperopithecus, the first anthropoid primate found in North America', Science, 55 (427), 463-465.
 
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According to Nebraska Man - Wikipedia , the name was first used by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1922, in a paper entitled 'Hesperopithecus, the first anthropoid primate found in North America', Science, 55 (427), 463-465.

So a scientists gave it its scientific name?
 
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I agree.

It was an honest mistake.
The dishonest part came when creationists took that imaginative magazine cover, and pretended that scientists were claiming that they had evidence for what the fossil looked like.
 
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Then who named it Hesperopithecus haroldcookii?

I don't buy into the idea that scientists knew better from the get-go.
It was found by a dinosaur specialist, who noted that the tooth was shaped very much like a primate tooth. When a mammal specialist took a look at it, he identified it as a the tooth of a peccary, which was oddly worn down in a way that made it look like that of an ape.
 
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It was found by a dinosaur specialist, who noted that the tooth was shaped very much like a primate tooth. When a mammal specialist took a look at it, he identified it as a the tooth of a peccary, which was oddly worn down in a way that made it look like that of an ape.

Neat.

What's your point?
 
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What's your point?
Science checks it's findings. Reproducibility is a big deal. Hence, the error was quickly found and corrected. The "wormhole" defense for distant supernovas will no doubt be circulating even though the facts won't support that belief.
 
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The "wormhole" defense for distant supernovas will no doubt be circulating even though the facts won't support that belief.

Show me one instance where your facts supported a miracle.
 
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Show me one instance where your facts supported a miracle.
If you get to call in an unscriptural miracle to cover all the flaws in your story then every story is equally plausible. "It was a miracle!!!!"
 
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Science lights fires, then puts them out.
Nothing man can do, works better for explaining the physical universe. I get the jealousy, but it's misplaced.
 
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If you get to call in an unscriptural miracle to cover all the flaws in your story then every story is equally plausible. "It was a miracle!!!!"

QV please:
Sorry, imaginary angel homes don't do any better.
 
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If you get to call in an unscriptural miracle to cover all the flaws in your story then every story is equally plausible. "It was a miracle!!!!"


Sorry, imaginary angel homes don't do any better.

It's no wonder you're perplexed.
 
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What's yours? That scientists sometimes misidentify fossils?

That, and they're willing to jump the gun to push their doctrine on to the general public.

Had that article said they just found something, with its identity pending, then no harm/no foul.

But no.

They found something, identified it as a missing link, gave it a scientific name, and let an artist draw it in its "native habitat."

Not to mention getting it taught in our schools.
 
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