My uncle was a palaentologist
and, a very unusual combination, also a creationist.

A few years ago he claimed to have found fossils of a dinosaur, in a stratum which would indicate that the creature was alive at the same time as human beings.

This, of course, would have meant re-writing most of geological history, and would have been a big win for creationists.

It turned out pretty quickly that he'd faked his find (it was a real dinosaur, but he didn't find it where he said he did). He was fired from the university, and pretty much black-listed from the profession.

He was quite surprised at people's hostility to him. As he said, most people have faked an organism.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 13:49, 3 replies)

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I'd've fired him for the solecism of "a strata".

Shocking.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 13:56, closed)

I always
read your posts thinking they are genuine, i am so gullible, i will start checking the names at the bottom first.

Have a click for my gullibility.
( Trollman, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 13:57, closed)

I'm sorry
but you can't be allowed to get away with this.

He didn't 'fake an organism' at all did he? He merely faked the era that the genuine organism was supposedly found in.

Go away and try harder next time.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 14:48, closed)