These things must happen all the time, or maybe your memory is .....

See http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,302597-412,00.shtml  dated
7/20/2001.

When trying to disprove carbon dating, try using verifiable facts, not
urban legends.

Ric



At 03:25 PM 2/12/2002 -0500, Larry Barnes wrote:
>This reminds me of a newspaper article I read in high school (eon's ago).
>The article talked about an 'exciting new discovery' on a lake in Idaho or
>Montana.  It was a dug-out Indian.  It was sent to a neighboring university
>for analysis.  Carbon-dating was used to determine that the canoe was
>several thousand years old.  I guess the article made headlines around the
>Northwest.
>
>A woman happened to read about this discovery and saw a picture of it in her
>local newspaper.  She went to the university and asked to meet with the
>professor doing the study.  She showed him a picture of the same canoe and
>explained the canoe was made by her son who was in scouting at the time.
>There were distinct marks on the side of the canoe that validated her story.
>Her son was studying Indian Lore and wanted to build a dug out canoe.  He
>used some of the methods such as burning and chipping to hollow out the log.
>
>So much for carbon-dating!
>Note:
>I can't remember if the canoe was discovered at a lake in Idaho and taken to
>a university in Montana or the other way around.  The woman lived in the
>state where the canoe was discovered.
>

Ric
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