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Andrew K. Fletcher of Great Britain wrote to The Naked Scientists
Forum, stating:
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"Seems like ages ago when I first found Ed Conrad's
website and gasped in awe at his findings inside an
open cast coal mine.
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"Thought you guys 'n gals would like to take the same amazing trip to
Ed Conrad's site as I did."
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The following is a column written by Donald R. Serfass in the
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 has 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 fossils that he says are bones,
teeth, soft tissue and even a petrified brain. Most were found between
anthracite coal seams around Mahanoy City. Pa.
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   What that proves, he says, is that man -- or a close predecessor --
had 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.
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HUMAN REMAINS FOUND BETWEEN COAL VEINS
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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
the final chapter has not been written and the real story eeds to be
told.
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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 the Smithsonian Institution
in 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 a strange small hardened object. He
consulted Wilton M. Krogman, author of ''The Human Skeleton
in Forensic Medicine'' and a world-renowned expert in the field of
human comparative anatomy.
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Krogman confirmed that the object removed from the jaw-like area was a
premolar tooth because he noticed, while examining a large photo, that
it possessed a pair of cusps -- and his declaration proved
to be the shot in the arm that spurned Conrad on.
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(Scrappings sent to American Medical Laboratories in Chantilly, Va.,
by Schuylkill County's pathologist -- on Krogman's suggestion --
revealed, via an infra-red scan, that it indeed contained the chemical
components of a tooth -- and it was also later determined that the
other small strange object was a canine tooth.)
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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
recently retired from 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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(Later, when Krogman had the opportunity to personally examine one of
Conrad's unique larger specimens, he identified it as a calvarium, a
human skull with the eye sockets broken off.)
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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 him
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, assistant
curator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum
of Natural History.
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   On the other hand, George Brody, one of Conrad's former teachers.
offered encouragement: "It's easy to see why the so-called experts are
confused. 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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OTHER DISCOVERIES BETWEEN COAL VEINS
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   Conrad 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, he wrote that "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," he says, explaining that it scattered bones in such a way that
he has not found a single skeleton intact.
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   Conrad has since had tests performed on 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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(His specimens have been subjected to all sorts of state-of-the-art
testing and resulted in confirmation of the presence of Haversian
canals, the tell-tale sign of bone; the presence of dried blood in
more than a half-dozen specimens tested at American Medical
Laboratories, the world's most prestigious laboratory of its kind
in the world); favorable results via more than a dozen Cat-scans;
and favorable results of surface structure by a scanning electron
microscope at 2,000X.)
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   As for why the scientific community chooses to turn its back, it's
anyone's guess. Conrad accuses the establishment of deceit, 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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   "There's something behind it all. A true scientist searches for
the truth no matter where it leads," he 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 and they don't
want to open the door," Lennon would say.
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    "Lennon also remarked: '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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   "It's a shame that evolution has caught on," he says. "If man
existed during the Carboniferous Period, it offers proof that we
could not possibly have evolved as suggested by the Darwin Theory.
Rightly so, because the theory of evolution never possessed a shred
of physical evidence in the first place."
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   Conrad has been unwavering as he presses onward. He's hit many
a roadblock. For one, many of his 26 sites are no longer available.
He's lost half of the most productive localities due to ongoing fly
ash dumping.
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   He's also encountered heartbreak. Sadly, Clayton Lennon, Conrad's
devoted friend, passed away in 1996 at the venerable age of 96. But
it's never easy to lose a kindred spirit, no matter what age and
Conrad feels the loss deeply.
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   "He was my inspiration," he says.
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  But carrying the torch onward, Conrad continues the quest.
He's never faltered. His goal is to win the war, not only the
battles.
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   He hopes the day will come when a museum devoted to the fossils
can be established someplace in the coal region. In the meantime,
his discoveries have received notoriety abroad. He was invited to
Switzerland and Germany where many of his fossilss were displayed
at international science exhibits,
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   Is it fair to call Ed Conrad a creationist?
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   No, he says. Besides, his mission is not about labeling people.
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   "I DO believe in a Creator but I'm not a creationist per se and
I'm not an evolutionist. I'm just someone searching for the truth."
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   Like a prizefighter, Ed Conrad spars inside the ring of scientific
scrutiny, always fighting the good fight. Never backing down.
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   The truth will emerge, he says. Its time will come.
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   And when it does, it'll be solid as a rock.
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Ed Conrad's email address is edcon...@edconrad.com
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WHERE THESE MIND-BOGGLING FOSSILS WERE FOUND
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Here's a map showing a spectacular cross-section of coal veins
beneath Mahanoy City, Pa. It reveals that an asteroid, meteor
\or comet had struck the earth and offering the undeniable
\physical evidence of a catastrophe.
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<        THE ANATOMY OF A CATACLYSM
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<  OLDEST HUMAN SKULL EVER FOUND
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http://www.edconrad.com/images/z11calv.jpg
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Wilton M. Krogman, one of the world's foremost experts on human
anatomy, holds what he had identified as a petrified human calvarium,
a skull with the eye sockets broken off, that was discovered between
coal veins.
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http://www.edconrad.com/images/krogwskull.jpg
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Krogman is shown at his desk at the world-famous Cooper Clinic in
Lancaster, Pa., where moments later he beckoned a colleague -- a
medical doctor -- to examine what he told him was "the oldest human
skull ever found."
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A CATscan was performed on this specimen with
favorable results.
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Meanwhile, Haversian canals were identified in the
cell structure, the tell-tale sign of bone. And dried
blood was found on the specimen during testing at
American Medical Laboratories in Chantilly, Va.
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This is the official report from AML which had
performed Calculus Analysis by Crystallography.
The final report, dated April 21, 2000, was issued
by Dr. Nathan Sherman, director of laboratories.
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> "The specimen consists of 1 irregularly
>  shaped, brown calculus weighing less
>  than 0.0010 grams and measuring 1X1X0.5
>  mm. No nidus is observed. The calculi
>  indicates a composition of dried blood
>  intermingled with a few small crystals
>  resembling calcium oxalate dihydrate."
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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 internal surface of the fossil that
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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 Rank    Name of University     Country
1 Harvard University                   USA
2 University of Oxford                   UK
3 University of Cambridge            UK
4 Stanford University                   USA
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
6 University of California, Berkeley USA
7 California Institute of Technology USA
8 Princeton University                   USA
9 Yale University                          USA
10 University of Chicago                USA
11 Columbia University                 USA
12 University of California, San Diego USA
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21 Kyoto University Japan
22 Imperial College London UK
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27 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Switzerland
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29 New York University USA
30 Duke University USA
31 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities USA
32 Northwestern University USA
33 Rockefeller University USA
34 University of Colorado, Boulder USA
35 University of California, Santa Barbara USA
36 University of British Columbia Canada
37 University of Maryland, College Park USA
38 Utrecht University Netherlands
39 University of Texas, Austin USA
40 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center USA
41 Pennsylvania State University, University Park USA
42 University of California, Davis USA
43 Vanderbilt University USA
44 University of California, Irvine USA
45 University of Paris 06 France
46 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh USA
47 University of Southern California USA
48 Rutgers State University, New Brunswick USA
49 University of Manchester UK
50 Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden
51 University of Munich Germany
52 Technical University of Munich Germany
53 University of Florida USA
54 University of Edinburgh UK
55 Australian National University Australia
56 Carnegie Mellon University USA
57 University of Copenhagen Denmark
58 University of Zurich Switzerland
59 Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel
60 Osaka University Japan
61 McGill University Canada
62 University of Bristol UK
63 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill USA
64 Uppsala University Sweden
65 Ohio State University, Columbus USA
66 University of Paris 11 France
67 University of Sheffield UK
68 University of Heidelberg Germany
69 University of Oslo Norway
70 Case Western Reserve University USA
71 Moscow State University Russia
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78 University of Nottingham UK
79 University of Arizona USA
80 Michigan State University USA
81 King's College London UK
82 Boston University USA
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84 Stockholm University Sweden
85 Brown University USA
86 University of Goettingen Germany
87 Rice University USA
88 Texas A&M University, College Station USA
89 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
90 University of Birmingham UK
91 University of Utah USA
92 University of Freiburg Germany
93 McMaster University Canada
94 Nagoya University Japan
95 University of Iowa USA
96 University of Strasbourg 1 France
97 Ecole Normale Super Paris France
98 Indiana University, Bloomington USA
99 Arizona State University, Tempe USA
100 University of Rome La Sapienza Italy
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