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... Discover magazine had a pretty good April Fool's joke about some Neandertal musical instruments that had supposedly been discovered in Germany. It was an unlikely collection, featuring bagpipes, a tuba, a triangle and a 'xylobone', along with a cave painting of marching musicians. Some creationists, however, didn't get the joke. Jim Foley first reported this in 2000. Now Brad Harrub writing in the "technical journal" of Answers in Genesis has also fallen for the joke. Added March 21, 2005: February 2005 Post of the Month: The Jigsaw. Added March 17, 2005: Young-Earth Creationist Helium Diffusion "Dates": Fallacies Based on Bad Assumptions and Questionable Data. Young-Earth creationists consider the helium diffusion studies of D. Russell Humphreys and others to be one of their greatest achievements in arguing for a 6,000 year old Earth. A geologist shows that these studies are extensively flawed and include: serious miscalculations in their data, sampling the wrong rock type, failing to eliminate possible contamination, using equations that are based on invalid assumptions and relying on questionable data. Added February 18, 2005: January 2005 Post of the Month: How to Listen to an Atheist. Added February 6, 2005: A Response to Bergman. In the misquotes page of Fossil Hominids, Jim Foley documented an erroneous quote by Jerry Bergman in a 1993 article on Nebraska Man in the journal Creation Research Society Quarterly (CRSQ). Bergman has responded, disputing Foley's interpretation, in a new article in the CRSQ: "A misrepresentation by Jim Foley: a correction". Here is Foley's response. Added January 18, 2005: December 2004 Post of the Month: Teaching Biology Without Evolution. Added January 16, 2005: Selman v. Cobb County School District: Amicus Curiae of Several Pro-Evolution Groups. Colorado Citizens for Science and several other pro-science organizations filed this brief in court arguing against the evolution disclaimer required in Cobb County, Georgia science textbooks that discuss evolution. Added January 13, 2005: Selman v. Cobb County School District. The decision of the United States District Court striking down a policy of placing a sticker with a disclaimer on textbooks discussing evolution. Added December 10, 2004: Homo floresiensis: the Hobbit. The Fossil Hominids entry for a new fossil find from Indonesia of dwarf hominids. Its discovers suggest it is descended from Homo erectus. Added November 30, 2004: The Quote Mine Project: Geologic Column Quotes. Another document in this Archive's examination of the evolution quotes used by evolution deniers. This document examines some quotes used by young-earth creationists in their attempt to deny geologic time. Additional new material can be found by checking the Quote Mine Project's What's New Page. Updated October 10, 2004: The Quote Mine Project: Or, Lies, Damned Lies and Quote Mines. Nine new quotes used by anti-evolutionists have been added bringing the Project up to a total of 115 examined quotes. This is the resource for examples of creationist misrepresentation via quotation. Added September 30, 2004: Skeletons in Your Closet. A review of creationist Gary Parker's book for kids about human evolution, Skeletons in your Closet. Briefly, this is an awesomely bad book. Anyone reading it will learn nothing useful about any of the considerable number of legitimate hominid fossils, but will pick up an amazing amount of misinformation if they are unfortunate enough to give Parker any credence....