Mastodon For Sale

As of this writing (early Friday afternoon), no one has yet bid on this artifact, and whether that's because of its price or what the money to purchase it would be destined for, I wouldn't presume to guess. But, at least to my mind, this auction has the same ironic tone as if the Smithsonian were auctioning off its priceless collection of antiquities to fund a project to show why museums are worthless to modern society. Is it just me, or is there a great deal of cognitive dissonance here?

His mistake was the "restoration." If the photo accompanying the article is the actual skull, there's no way of of distinguishing the original material from the restorative material. In other words, how much is mastodon, and how much is silly putty?

I was very amused at the first paragraph of Ned's article. Given the anemic response to the previous two articles, he seems to be dredging up another storm of Creationism vs. Evolution. Those two got a real back-and-forth going between the pro-folks and the con-folks.
Withal, it's a shame that a museum has to deal with the litigiousness of our modern society.

That's hilarious: "These fossils don't exist, but I'd be happy to sell them to you."

Since posts get deleted - why bother?

I find this guy stupid. There are millions of fossils around the world that clearly was dated millions of years ago. He can't refute actual science with his 'fony' science. A real scientific museum would have such money without going bankrupt.

Maybe Ned is playing with us! Such a target rich environment!

Seriously, I went to the site and looked around. Seems like one of those old craft stores your Mom dragged you into an wet Sunday afternoons. main thing seems to be sales of reproduction(?) artifacts and fossils. I don't know enough to know whether there is any truth in any of it.

It also appears that restoration has been performed on the skull. Maybe it's been restored in such a way as to support the ID/Creationism people's ideas.

As a way of getting tourists to part with money - fine, in the best traditions of P.T. Barnum; but I see no evidence of serious science about it.

It is amazing how people claim that evolution is scientific fact, however, in all actuallity evolution doesn't contain one credible fossil.

So are they willing to guarantee it is real or what? I mean how do I know it's a real fossil? How old is it?

What a hoot! Maybe their sending the money to Huckabee...

NJ - Do you not believe fossils exist? Or do you not believe that the 100,000+ species of fossils discovered so far, laid out in detailed sequences of morphological change, could possibly lead anyone to think that they might have evolved from each other?

Andy, I don't even know where to begin with how wrong your statement is, so I will leave it at that. As far as this guy goes, I want to visit his website so I can see how ridiculous he really is, but then I will generate traffic that makes money for what I consider to be the epitome of ignorance.

Note from Ned--

In a spirit of good will, I'd like to let some friends I've made on this blog (Hello, guys. Chuck, great to have you back.) know that I really don't go scouring the world for evolution/creation stories. This just happened to come up today--honest!

Dat Guy; I guess you should learn to read; there is nothing wrong with anything I said.

I will add this though; anyone who believes i n creationism or Intelligent design must be a few fries short of a happy meal!

NJ: You're right, there is not one credible fossil. There are probably millions. Creationists comes across as the lowest level of humans (or subhumans). They don't do a shred of investigation. They just believe as they are told. Go out, read, investigate, learn, don't sit there and be spoon fed.

Casey, et al. A discussion does not require insulting people. Such ad hominem attacks are not only immature (and obviously wrong), but they pretty much end any chance of legitimate communication between people. Remember what Thumper said!

I think Dat Guy meant to go after NJ.

I went to the site, what a load of garbage. If you want people to take what you say seriously (even if it's mostly broken math, moronic babbling and lies), you have got to stop dressing like a clown.

Ask him you want scientific proof of it's age and see what he says.

Just another idiot denying modern science. All of modern biology and medicine require validate evolution simply because evolution is essential in the advancement of these disciplines. If you were in the hospital for cancer and the doctor said there are two treatment paths to choose from: creation based medicine or evolution based medicine. Trust me, go for the evolution based treatment.

It is a cool looking skull, though. A bit imposing for my tiny living room. I suppose since the last mammoths didn't die out until something like 8000 years ago (maybe 4000 for a smaller species?), they can claim that as within the Biblical timeline. What they do with their trilobites and dinosaurs I couldn't guess. I suppose if you refuse to believe the scientific evidence for radiometric dating, you can make up any age you want.

Nj is right. I believe in creationism. I think aliens created us. Prove they didn't.