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Andrew K Fletcher of the United Kingdom posted this message to "The
Naked Scientists Forum":
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The site is http://www.edconrad.com
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http://www.thenakedscientists.com/fo...p?topic=3662.0
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(Ed Conrad added these two photos. Mr. Fletcher didn't.)
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/TightFit.jpg
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(If you didn't know better, you'd swear the Whale
is Boss Limbaugh)
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PETRIFIED REMAINS -- SOME HUMAN -- FOUND
BETWEEN COAL VEINS IN PENNSYLVANIA
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NATURALLY, PROVING MAN AS OLD AS COAL
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Newspaper Headline: ROCK OF AGES

If I had to write it . . .
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ED CONRAD'S SKIN THICKER
THAN A CEMENT RHINOCEROS
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By DONALD R. SERFASS
Lehighton (Pa.) Times News
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SHENANDOAH, Pa. -- 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 and
Shenandoah.
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Ed Conrad and Blue, his Husky.
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/EdnBlue.JPG
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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 (EDITORIAL COMMENT: That the Theory of Evolution
is pure bullshit).
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So when science tries to say that humans and
pre-humans evolved on Earth no more than 65 million years ago, Conrad
begs to differ. The proof shows otherwise, he says.
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The issue matters to him because he's a man of principle. He says


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"I'm in it for the truth," he says.
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Actually, Conrad's quest for man's origins began as a quiet
discovery in June 1981 when he stumbled
upon what appeared to be a large petrified skull while searching for
fern fossils.
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Conrad was invited to take the find to Washington,
D.C., where he journeyed with close pal and amateur geologist Clayton
Lennon, then 81.
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There, Smithsonian representatives performed a cursory examination
and dismissed the specimen as a "concretion," or rock.
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However, Conrad wasn't satisfied. He probed the skull's jaw-like
interior and found soft dirt and what two
hardened objects (which turned out to be a canine and premolar tooth).
He then consulted Wilton Krogman, author of ''The Human Skeleton in
Forensic Medicine''
and a world-reknowned expert in the field of human comparative
anatomy.
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Krogman confirmed that one he was shown was a premolar because it
revealed a pair of cusps -- and his declaration proved to be the shot
in the arm that spurned him onward.
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"I had met with Dr. Krogman about a month after being shot down by
the Smithsonian," recalls
Conrad, a veteran journalist who has been a writer and/or editor at
newspapers in Philadelphia and Montreal, and last wrote for the
Hazleton (Pa.) Standard-Speaker.
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Krogman, now deceased, was quite excited
about Conrad's discovery and kept in touch.
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"Man, oh, man! You've got something that will go down in the book of
human paleontology. Hominid teeth and 'mammalian bone' add up to an
unbeatable combination," he wrote to Conrad on Jan. 3, 1984.
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But not all experts embraced the discovery. Far from it. Many
scoffed. They said Conrad's quest was
preposterous. They likened Conrad to a modern-day Don Quixote, taking
up a hopeless gauntlet against the lofty windmills of science.
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"I do NOT think you have a fossil. I think it is incredible that
anyone familiar with fossils would. Any further communication would
waste both of
our times," wrote David Pilbeam, anthropology professor at Harvard
University.
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"No scientist in his right mind would attempt to
speculate on something as unusual as you suggest," said John G.
Maisey,

assistantcurator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology,American
Museum of Natural History.
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On the other hand, one of Conrad's former teachers at Stevens Trade
School offered encouragement: "It's easy to see why the so-called
experts are confused," George Brody told him, "Your main problem is
that you have outrun the limits of their knowledge. What you have
makes them uncomfortable. Much of what they have been teaching will
have to be undone (if you're proven right)."
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Critics claimed that the fossilized specimens appear to lack
Haversian canals, or tiny, imbedded tunnels that are an integral part
of the cell structure of bone.
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But Conrad felt that the specimens were never properly examined and
were never exposed to honest, objective testing. Even worse, he soon
found that he and his discovery were being shunned, even blackballed,
by the scientific community.
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It seemed as though they had turned a deaf ear, something which
Conrad said didn't make sense in a field supposedly open to
discovery.
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But attempted intimidation didn't stop Conrad from developing a
theory about man's very early existence.
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"Man and animals had one thing in common. Both were annihilated in
some incredible catastrophe that blew them limb from limb and
scattered their bones, teeth and soft organs in all directions," he
says.
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(Only in recent years did Ed gain access to ssurface and underground
mining maps near his area of discovery and was fascinated that it
unquestionably
had been struck by an asteroid, meteorite or comet . Here are maps so
you can judge for yourself. Some photos can be enlarged by clicking on
them.)
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Before acquiring the mind-boggling confirming that his area of
discovery had been struck by an extraterrestrial object, Conrad had
studied underground mining maps showing coal veins which definitely
reflect early turbulence. On top of
that, they had been violently disrupted in the same place where most
of the fossils finds originated.
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Then Conrad came upon what appeared to be additional corroboration
from scientist and author Dr.
Immanuel Velikovsky. More than a half-century ago, Velikovsky said
"the true story of the history of Earth and man is written in the
rocks, visible for all to see as part of the fossil record."
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Specifically, Velikovsky believed that a cataclysmic event took
place on Earth, which he believed had been impacted by planet Venus.
His highly controversial
thoughts are expressed in two of his books,
'Worlds in Collision' and 'Earth in Upheaval.'
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"A catastrophe occurred and hydrocarbons rained on the earth. That
resulted in the formation of oil and coal," says Conrad, explaining
Velikovsky's theories. " That dramatic event transformed the planet."
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"It was worse than an earthquake. It might have been an asteroid
hitting Earth. The catastrophe occurred and the bones were deposited
here," Conrad says, explaining that it scattered bones in such a way
that he has not found a single skeleton intact.
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Ed has since had tests performed on quite a few of his specimens.
The examinations included X-rays, infra-red scans and CAT scans.
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The results differ greatly from what Conrad was told earlier by
those who dismissed the finds as rocks or nodules. He has posted his
findings on a Web
site -- http://www.edconrad.com -- revealing not only his discoveries
but his frustration with academia and science.
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As for why the scientific community chooses to turn its back, it's
anyone's guess.
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Conrad accuses the establishment of deceit, deception, collusion and
conspiracy. He backs up his accusations with a two-decade journal of
facts
and details explained on his Web site.
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" A true scientist searches for the truth no matter where it
leads," Ed says. "What's so wrong to believe
that man existed 280 million years ago? Why is that a sin?"
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Some say it's a matter of money. There are
millions of dollars in government grants, research projects and school
funding based on the teaching of the theory of evolution.
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To pull out the rug from under those practices would be tantamount
to shaking up government, academia and science, or "pseudoscience," as
Conrad calls it.
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Ironically, early in the quest, Conrad's friend Lennon advised that
the road to the truth would be a rough road to travel, especially when
dealing with those who will not listen.
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"They know they have a skeleton in their closet, Ed, and they don't
want to open the door,"
Lennon told him.
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Lennon also hit the nail on the head with this astute
obsertvatiion: "You're not only fighting the man in the ring, Ed,
You're also fighting the referee and the three judges.")
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For Conrad, Lennon's words proved prophetic.
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"If man existed during the Carboniferous Period, it
offers proof that we could not possibly have evolved
as suggested by the Darwin Theory," he said. "Rightly
so, because the theory of evolution never possessed
a shred of physical evidence in the first place."
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Is it fair to call Ed Conrad a creationist?
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"I DO believe in a Creator but I'm not a creationist per se." he
replIed. "I'M just someone searching for
the truth."
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Like a prizefighter, Ed Conrad spars inside the ring of scientific
scrutiny, fighting the good fight and never backing down.
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The truth will emerge, he says. Its time will come.
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FAVORABLE SCIENTIFIC TEST RESULTS
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Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith1/MVC-008S.JPG
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American Medical Laboratories
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID\MVC-024S.JPG

http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID\MVC-002S.JPG
CATscan performed on petrified premolar


Scanning Electron Microscopy performed on petrified tibia
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http://www.edconrad.com/canals/sem.jpg
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Presence of Haversian canals (Microscopic photo of ground section)

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Ed Conrad's Web page -- http://www.edconrad.com --had almost 240,000
hits before his counter broke down about 5-6 years ago. His
unrelenting battle against the Scientific Establishment is also
detailed
in the Google news groups.
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Ed's email address is edcon...@edconrad.com
Substitute rad for dot-dot-dot.

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RESEARCH ON HUMAN CALVARIUM,
FEMUR BY LIN LIANGTAI OF TAIWAN
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PETRIFIED HUMAN CALVARIUM
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z11calv.jpg
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CALVARIUM REPORT
http://groups.google.com/group/idfos...-article?hl=en
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PETRIFIED HUMAN FEMUR
http://www.edconrad.com/FOSSILS08/HumanFemur.jpg
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FEMUR REPORT
http://groups.google.com/group/idfos...-article?hl=en
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< SEM COMPARISON OF SPECIMEN
< THAT TOP ANATOMIST IDENTIFIED AS A TIBIA
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/newtibia.jpg
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Scanning Electron Microscopy of the internal surface
of the obect that noted human anatomist Wilton Krogman identified as a
tibia. Both photos were taken at 2,000X.
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http://www.edconrad.org/images/bones.jpg
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This is the specimen that Paul PZ Myers, then of Temple and now of the
University of Minnesota, along with Andrew MacRae, then of Calgary
University and now of SMU, tampered with.
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MacRae was sent a specimen that human anatomist Wilton M. Krogman
identified as a tibia, then
fraudulently "prepared" a ground section displaying the internal
structure of a rock or concretion, hence
denying the existence of Haversian canals, the tell-tale sign of
bone.
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WHEN SCIENCE VS. PSEUDOSCIENCE
http://www.edconrad.com
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< PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Miracle.jpg
http://edconrad.com/lifeafterdeath/index.html
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