Audrey Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > Incorrect. You spouted crap. The messy evidence
> > may be seen by any reader who can be bothered.
>
> They will see the statement made by a Harvard
> archaeologist at a Nobel Symposium, very neat &
> precise.
>
> “If a C14 date supports our theories, we put
> it in the main text. If it does not entirely
> contradict them, we put it in a foot-note. And if
> it is completely ‘out of date,’ we just drop
> it”

To which you attach no date, giving the false impression that this is something current.

And what is this nonsense about it being a statement made at the Nobel Symposium⸮ It was quoted at the Symposium, by Torqny Säve-Söderbergh:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JFy4tCrd-YIC&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq="quoting+professor+j.o.+brew"

All we know from this is that it predated the symposium in 1969. There is much discussion of the quote, including this on its misuse by creationists:

http://www.ntanet.net/quote.html

The author (R. Holloway) traces it back no further than the paper by Säve-Söderbergh, but the quote includes this: “C-14 dating was being discussed at a symposium on the prehistory of the Nile Valley. A famous American colleague, Professor Brew, briefly summarized a common attitude among archaeologists towards it, as follows: If a C-14 date supports our theories, . . .”

So a symposium on the history of the Nile Valley, no later than 1969—and signs are that it was quoted in 1969 precisely in order to represent the “bad old days”.

M.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 24-Mar-17 14:14 by Martin Stower.