Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils

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• JE

  @jeohist · 1 year ago · pinned

  J.R. van de Fliert was not an Adventist, he was one of the founders of the Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken which was a Orthodox Reformed church.

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• FI

  @findmeinthefuture. · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDXdqqJQPE&amp;t=300">5:00</a> &quot;The human footprints were cartoonish, resembling the artist&apos;s guess at what a human footprint would look like. These dinosaur tracks were a different story. They were so good that the creator must have been working from a reference.&quot;<br><br>I&apos;ve already figured out the twist. Both carvings were done by a dinosaur. He had to guess what a human&apos;s foot looks like, but he could just use his own foot for reference for the dinosaur tracks.

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• RO

  @rosenrotvvitch · 1 year ago

  &quot;the resulting work was so poor, so misleading, that it prompted an 11,000 word response&quot; followed by<br>Hbomberguy&apos;s voice was <b>chef&apos;s kiss</b>

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• LI

  @lilybunne · 1 year ago

  I won&apos;t lie, I breathed a sigh of relief when Roland Bird&apos;s story didn&apos;t end with &quot;so desperate for approval he fakes footprints and there&apos;s a scandal!&quot;. Good on him for his big and legit find!

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• EL

  @elizacomics2329 · 1 year ago

  Fun fact: I started doubting Mormonism as a kid after finding a church article called ‘Do Mormons believe in dinosaurs’ and the very idea that the church could tell me Dinosaurs aren’t real lead to a large unraveling of my faith.

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• AV

  @Avery_Beausoleil · 1 year ago (edited)

  Raptors using their claws to farm invasive sugar cane and bamboo is the deep lore I needed for this 5000 year old good Christian Minecraft server.

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• DY

  @dylanmiller9162 · 1 year ago

  I always laugh at the notion of scientists, archaeologists, etc, constantly suppressing regime-shattering findings. There’s very little that academics love more than absolutely DUNKING on their field’s existing narratives.

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• JA

  @janberkemeier7406 · 11 months ago

  There&apos;s something about an old man wandering aimlessly on a mountainside while a narrator says &quot;He failed to discover Noah&apos;s arc&quot; that&apos;s very, very funny to me

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• NI

  @nickblomgren · 1 year ago

  <i>&quot;This simplistic theology creates an equally simplistic geology: Things are what they look like to a child.&quot;</i><br>I would like to remind everyone that ten years ago, Senator James Inhofe, brought a snowball into the senate as proof that climate change was not a thing.

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• JI

  @JinStreams · 1 year ago

  Finally, Dan Olson talking about feet for a feature length video

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• D9

  @d9738-f2t · 1 year ago (edited)

  I love the parts that go &quot;this book/film was generally poorly received, receiving much criticism for its distortion of facts and pseudoscientific arguments. It is commonly used for homeschooling in America.&quot;

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• ME

  @MeowtroidPrime · 1 year ago

  Upon rewatching and hearing the recounting of Baugh&apos;s cagey response about the skeleton, saying &quot;the artifact might be intrusive&quot;, let me translate exactly what he means:<br><br>Possession of the skeleton almost &nbsp;certainly is in violation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. He&apos;s removed it from display, and put it &quot;in security&quot; ie in an undisclosed storage location, because he doesn&apos;t want the government to come take it away from him.

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