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From: lief@hpfcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 15:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 15:43:00 1985
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>>>      Your last point is well taken -- we have not found any fossils which
>>> can be attributed to non-regressed animals.  Wouldn't I love it if we would
>>> find an anti-diluvian man (since the Bible teaches that these men were
>>> giants).  On the otherhand I would like to submit to you that Bison never
>>> roamed the plains of the United States, because we have never found a fossil
>>> of one. 
>>
>>I'm glad to see you've conceeded one point.  But you are wrong about bison
>>fossils.  There are abundant deposits of bison bones in varying states of
>>fossilization.
>
>	Yes indeed, in fact for a good sample of them on prominent
>display why not try the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. And not only fossil
>Bison, but fossil wolves and numerous other forms.
>	As for the "anti-diluvian man" business, what about
>Gigantopithecus, a rather large man-like ape known from a few
>fragmentary fossils? :-)
>-- 
>
>				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
>
>/* ---------- */

Ah, you got me there!  Thanks.

Lief Sorensen
HP Fort Collins, CO
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