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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob F"  wrote in message   
   news:jttjc6$dtq$1@dont-email.me...   
   > John wrote:   
   >>> Ancient modern tools. While quarrying limestone in 1786, workers   
   >>> came   
   >>> to a bed of sand about 50 feet below ground level. In the layer of   
   >>> sand, however, they found the stumps of stone pillars and   
   >>> fragments   
   >>> of half-worked rock. Digging further, they found coins, the   
   >>> petrified   
   >>> wooden handles of hammers, and pieces of other petrified wooden   
   >>> tools. The sand in which the discovery was made was beneath a   
   >>> layer   
   >>> of limestone dated at 300 million years old.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> How do they know it is 300 million years old? Where they there 300   
   >> million years ago to see it?   
   >>   
   >> I suggest it is 4,300 years old max.   
   >   
   > More likely, tha sand and debris washed into a crack in older rock?   
      
   It could have been a Roman-era mine. Whose head was on the coins?   
   Stratigraphic dating requires intelligent analysis. .   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy_(archaeology)   
      
   This is the partly eaten carcass of a rare Baird's beaked whale that   
   the creationists still claim as proof of modern dinosaurs:   
   http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/07/08/moores-beach-monster/   
      
   jsw   
      
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