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Rei
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Message 91 of 352 (141974)
09-13-2004 3:21 AM
Reply to: Message 90 by John Williams
09-13-2004 3:00 AM


Re: Giant human unearthed in Saudi Arabia?
Yeah, but:
1) This clearly isn't part of an oil company's dig, since the ground around it hasn't been dug into (see the live, growing plants?). One could, of course, claim that they just happened to see bones sticking up. Not bloody likely, but it's a valid excuse.
2) What is shading the man, and why isn't that reflected in the rest of the scene?
3) Why hasn't any archaeological association reported on it in a journal? Is it some sort of conspiratorial coverup?

"Illuminant light,
illuminate me."

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Rei
Member (Idle past 7032 days)
Posts: 1546
From: Iowa City, IA
Joined: 09-03-2003


Message 97 of 352 (142062)
09-13-2004 1:44 PM
Reply to: Message 93 by John Williams
09-13-2004 5:58 AM


Re: Giant human unearthed in Saudi Arabia?
> one of the most convincing hoaxes
... you haven't spent very long on Worth1000.com, have you? It's a fun site, you should go there some time.
Dark shapes like that oddly-fitting person are easy to edit in - there's some "glow" along the edges, which *could* be natural light effects, or just as easily could be blur-addition to smooth borderlines. Besides, any decent artist could make a picture like this *without photoediting* given paper mache, chickenwire/foam, etc.
> Supposedly, the Saudi police took over the location
Yeah.... the Saudis, who are constantly trying to promote their "religious credentials" to their public, are trying to hide evidence of their holy books being right? Suuuure....
Seriously, are archaeologists expected to be just sitting by and not protesting? At all? Police don't "take possession of archaeological sites" and hide them from peer review, even in Saudi Arabia; and if they did, there would be huge protests. Look at what happened when the taliban started blowing up Buddha statues in Afghanistan! The archaeological world was having fits. And here, we supposedly have something never before seen, and you're assuming that archaeologists are going "Nah, I don't care."?
All this site did (have you read the sort of pseudoscience this site spits out?) was replace one bogus picture with another. Where is a single *credible* site reporting on this? Where are archaeologists mentioning this at all (positive or negative)? Where is *any* correlating evidence?
I should make a picture of a box of liquid with bubbles in it and some pipes hooked up to it, and post an article on my website about my new Cold Fusion discovery. It'd be just as credible.

"Illuminant light,
illuminate me."

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Rei
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From: Iowa City, IA
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Message 108 of 352 (143413)
09-20-2004 5:28 PM
Reply to: Message 105 by Lysimachus
09-20-2004 4:28 PM


Are you serious, or just trolling? I'm betting the latter. Either way, why on earth is it that creationists tend to take the word of people who they don't even know anything about from sites they know nothing about (or just as commonly, take the word of people who have committed numerous frauds and laughably bad scientific errors) as if they're some sort of sign from God? What ever happened to your ability to take the credibility of people into account? Or is your judge of credibility simply "They profess belief in Jesus, so they must be telling the truth."?
If so, I can see why so many people are voting for Bush, as well.

"Illuminant light,
illuminate me."

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