In article <bes102tltj9arpsdub5esjhh1a5p6odjil@4ax.com>, 
edconrad@verizon.net says...
> Subject: ROCK OF AGES ------> Ed Conrad Battles Science in 25-Year Quest for Truth <------
> From: Ed Conrad <edconrad@verizon.net>
> Newsgroups: sci.history.ancient, alt.religion.jehovahs-witn, japan.chat, rec.gambling.poker
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> By Donald R. Serfass
> Lehighton (Pa.) Times News
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>    SHENANDOAH -- If still water runs deep, Ed Conrad is an ocean.
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>    Polite and friendly, he's a mild-mannered gentleman with a calming
> voice. A fatherly type with a heart of gold.
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>    But he's also much deeper. He's intense and pensive. A relentless
> fighter with endless stamina. he has broad shoulders and determination
> as enduring as granite. 
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>    Over the past 25 years, he's taken on scientists, universities and
> even the Smithsonian Institution in trying to correct what he feels is
> a gross injustice.
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>    Conrad has discovered thousands of fossilized specimens that he
> says are bones, teeth, soft tissue and even a petrified brain. They
> were found between anthracite coal seams around Mahanoy City,
> Shenandoah and Hazleton. 
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>    What that proves, he says, is that man -- or a close predecessor --
> walked the Earth when coal was being formed during the Carboniferous
> Period some 280 million years ago. That statement contradicts
> established science and Conrad is trying to set the record straight.
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Did these guys used to play poker?
What do you think the favourite game was 280 million years ago?