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_Quasimodo
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Some really old crap...

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New discovery places first inhabitants of the New World at 14,300 years ago.

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-ancient-oregon-caves/2472274.html

But Jenkins' team used radiocarbon dating to determine that more than 200 samples of human feces collected from the Paisley caves were deposited in the area 14,300 years ago, nearly 1,000 years before the human settlement evidenced in the Clovis era.


I agree that it's sh**ty, but this means a bye-bye to the Book of Mormon.
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Quasimodo wrote:New discovery places first inhabitants of the New World at 14,300 years ago.

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-ancient-oregon-caves/2472274.html

But Jenkins' team used radiocarbon dating to determine that more than 200 samples of human feces collected from the Paisley caves were deposited in the area 14,300 years ago, nearly 1,000 years before the human settlement evidenced in the Clovis era.


I agree that it's sh**ty, but this means a bye-bye to the Book of Mormon.

That damned anti-mormons seize all opportunity to throw coprolite unto the church.



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ludwigm wrote:
That damned anti-mormons seize all opportunity to throw coprolite unto the church.



I have learned a new word again...


Do you mean coprolite? :biggrin: It's a nicer word for something just as nasty.
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I wonder how long before the church quietly removes the timeline from the Book of Mormon?

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I wonder how long before the church quietly removes the timeline from the Book of Mormon?

- Doc


Hey, that would solve the problem. "The Prophet Joseph Smith was just off by 10,000 years or so. Anyone could make a small mistake like that. Maybe a scribe misheard it?"
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I'll take 22k years old for $500, Alex.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Furada_sites
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SteelHead wrote:I'll take 22k years old for $500, Alex.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Furada_sites


:lol:

I think that one is still up in the air as far archaeologists are concerned. I would love to think that human habitation in the Americas goes back that far (even farther since this site is in South America), but I don't want to believe it if it's not true.

14,300 is still pretty good.
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Hey Q! :smile:

But Jenkins' team used radiocarbon dating to determine that more than 200 samples of human feces collected from the Paisley caves were deposited in the area 14,300 years ago


Sounds like Mr. Paisley spent a lot of his time in his cave reading the sports section.


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Quasimodo wrote:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I wonder how long before the church quietly removes the timeline from the Book of Mormon?

- Doc


Hey, that would solve the problem. "The Prophet Joseph Smith was just off by 10,000 years or so. Anyone could make a small mistake like that. Maybe a scribe misheard it?"


Sorry to burst your apologetic bubble....but.....

Christ's appearance in the narrative watermarks the Book of Mormon to a known timeline that cannot be 'out' by the margin it would need to be for Quasi's pooh to be considered 'not damning'.

Nice try boys.
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Quasimodo wrote:
I agree that it's sh**ty, but this means a bye-bye to the Book of Mormon.


Not necessarily. Tests have not ruled out high-gluten flour, which is the prime ingredient in bagels. Find the bagel and you've found the Nephites. Additionally, they need to scour the cave walls for the Reformed Egyptian symbol for toilet paper.
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