Yes! That can be found on the Truthbook website.
I had missed that particular article. But it was interesting to find the article in Nanaimo Daily News, on the more recent finding of the jaw. Their dating is always a puzzle to me.
Geoffrey Bibby, in his book Looking for Dilmun, ran into problems with the bitumen stuff they found in huge urns, buried deep in the ground. They send it off to Aarhus in Denmark to be dated, and were soooooo disappointed with the results. 32-36,000 yrs old!!!!!
Why is it so hard for some of these folks to accept such results? If they are scientists, then accept the findings, even if it means you have to re-calculate and re-evaluate all your fondest theories.
If I believe something is 10,000 yrs old and the science tells me it is actually 300,000, then I need to find more stuff to date, and then accept it. No?
Ego is the main reason why some people can't accept most contrarian facts.
If people are raised in a particular faith all their lives and then something comes along to challenge that belief after 50 years, how willing are most people to even look into the opposing view, much less accept that they might be wrong???
Especially if even considering an opposing or just different view means they have no "real faith"! This is the quicksand to progressive thinking I'm afraid.
Similarly a scientist who has ascribed to status quo theories, with peer-reviewed research suddenly has to admit that his research or conclusions were wrong!
This might also mean he/she loses research grant money!!
No one should be so naive and gullbile as to beleive everything that comes to us of course but scientist and theologian alike have demonstrated a stubborness when it comes to holding on to their own theories/beliefs in the face of potentially contradictory assertions.
The biggest obstacle to progress is the human inability to utter these words "Perhaps I'm mistaken'!!! :)
Yes, Margaret Mead comes to mind. She wrote in a letter to a fellow anthropologist/assistant (?) that they had better not mention certain facts about their findings re some island tribes (forget which one, Samoans?) as that would seriously upset their carefully laid theories. Now that is downright dishonest! And yet, she was very much, and still is, respected.
