Ice Age Beasts Blasted from Space

ianare writes "Eight tusks and a bison skull all show signs of having being blasted with iron-nickel fragments, typical meteorite material. Raised, burnt surface rings trace the point of entry of high-velocity projectiles; and the punctures are on only one side, consistent with a blast coming from a single direction. But the team was astonished to find the animal remains were about 35,000 years old, rather than from the known impact of 13,000 years ago."

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don't give creationists ammo

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"...35,000 years old, rather than from the known impact of 13,000 years ago"

the curent trend among creationists is poke holes in radiocarbon dating, and other half-life based dating methods

don't give the a-holes any ammo by saying things like this. obviously, it's from another impact, but they'll use it as evidence that radiodating rocks and fossils is faulty

i'm glad

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that you don't care about those who manipulate science

i loathe them

it's important to be impartial in all things... EXCEPT towards those who are consciously and purposely partisan, who aren't concerned with the neutral truth, but are interested in actively skewing of it

when i see a creationist raping the truth, i will get involved to stop the rape

i'm glad your conscience is so wooden that you can see someone rape the truth, and remain uninterested in attempting to stop that

your impartiality, to a smaller degree than you portray, is admirable. but beyond a certain degree, and your deadened uncaring attitude towards creationists as a threat becomes self-defeating

you should care about those who attempt to destroy science, reason, and logic. they are impotent WITHIN the search for truth, yes. but they are not impotent in their desires and attempts to destroy all that underpins the search for truth. in the social structure that supports the search for truth: in the funding of universities and science departments, in the warping of young minds who are needed to refresh those departments, etc.

if you think religius fanatics would not kill or poison science if they could, and pose no threat to you as a scientist, you aren't paying attention to history. reference galileo for starters