Thank you Russ for your understanding.

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No argument here, but this is certainly a vastly different statement than the original that I responded to.
What linda said that you responded to was:

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[color:"magenta"]"There are numerous examples of wood having been preserved for millennia, in the right kinds of conditions, typically an anoxic (oxygen-free) environment."[/color]
A millennium is 1,000 years. The evidence from the peat bogs include some mummies that date to 300 CE by comparison with clothes and artifacts against history. That is 1.7 millennium. Once artifacts have reached this kind of age without showing any decay or deterioration there is no reason to presume that they cannot last for more millenia as long as the conditions of preservation prevail.

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Especially today, when you do not know what is evidence and what is piltdown (a fraud).
The sheer amount of peer-reviewed fraud (even just that which we can be aware of) in the disciplines I study is mind boggling. There is an agenda at every door and it is an affront to science but good for quarterly corporate graphs.
People should be skeptical, especially of any new claims. Some people were skeptical of piltdown from the start, others became skeptical when it began to be contradicted by other evidence. It was actually a scientific analysis that finally showed it was a construct (like the chinese fake bird).

I have faith in the eventual honesty of science to uncover frauds and deceptions, although it may take a generation.

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Forgetaboutit.
Thanks.

Enjoy

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