ROCK OF AGES ---- Ed Conrad Battles Science in 25-Year Quest for Truth .. Coal-Age Petrified Human Fossils.

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By Donald R. Serfass
Lehighton (Pa.) Times News

SHENANDOAH -- If still water runs deep, Ed Conrad is an ocean.

Polite and friendly, he's a mild-mannered gentleman with a calming
voice. A fatherly type with a heart of gold.

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.

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.

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,
Shenandoah and Hazleton.

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.

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SOME PETRIFIED HUMAN REMAINS
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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.

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 needs to be
told.

“I'm in it for the truth,” he says.

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 petrified human skull while searching for fern fossils.

Conrad was invited to take the find to Washington, D.C., where he
journeyed with close pal and amateur geologist Clayton Lennon,
then 81.

There, Smithsonian representatives performed a cursory examination
and dismissed the specimen as a “concretion,” or rock.

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.

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.

“I had met with Dr. Krogman about a month after being shot down by
the Smithsonian,” recalls Conrad, a veteran journalist who has a
writer and/or editor at newspapers in Philadelphia and Montreal, and
currently writes for the Hazleton (Pa.) Standard-Speaker.

Krogman, now deceased, was quite excited about Conrad's discovery
and kept in touch.

“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.

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.

“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.

“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.

On the other hand, 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).”

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.

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.

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.

But attempted intimidation didn't stop Conrad from developing a
theory about man's very early existence.

“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.

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."

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.'

“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."

“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.

Conrad has since had tests performed on his specimens. The
examinations included X-rays, infra-red scans and CAT scans.

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), revealing not only his discoveries but his
frustration with academia and science.

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.

“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?”

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.

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.

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.

“They know they have a skeleton in their closet and they don't want
to open the door,” Lennon would say.

For Conrad, Lennon's words proved prophetic.

“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.”

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.

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.

“He was my inspiration," he says.

But carrying the torch onward, Conrad continues the quest.
He's never faltered. His goal is to win the war, not only the battles.

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.

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SOME FAVORABLE SCIENTIFIC TEST RESULTS

Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
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American Medical Laboratories
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CATscan performed on petrified premolar
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Scanning Electron Microscopy performed on petrified tibia
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Presence of Haversian canals (Microscopic photo of ground section)
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Over the past 18 months, Conrad has traveled to Switzerland and
Germany where many of his fossil exhibits were displayed at
international science shows.

Next year, Japan is expected to feature his discoveries and Conrad
will be there to take part, God willing.

Is it fair to call him a creationist?

No, he says. Besides, his mission is not about labeling people.

“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.”

Like a prizefighter, Ed Conrad spars inside the ring of scientific
scrutiny, always fighting the good fight. Never backing down.

The truth will emerge, he says. Its time will come.

And when it does, it'll be solid as a rock.

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NOTE: Ed Conrad's Web page -- http://www.edconrad.com --
has had almost 213,000 hits. His unrelenting battle against
the Scientific Establishment is also detailed in the Google
news groups. Ed's email address is

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Ed Conrad wrote:

Polite and friendly, he's a mild-mannered gentleman with a calming
voice. A fatherly type with a heart of gold.



Eddie is neither polite nor friendly. If he were, he would not be
posting off-topic nonsense in sci.astro.amateur and in a bunch of
ofther groups he's been spamming since (I hear) he was run off of
talk.origins.

Alas, Ed Conrad is merely...."The Man as Dumb as Coal."

Up your's! (And I can prove it with your photo).
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Ed Conrad
PS: Have a pleasant day!

wrote:
RMOLLISE wrote:

Eddie is neither polite nor friendly.

Up your's!

Q.E.D.

--
Noah
OBTW, "yours" has no apostrophe.

wrote:

Up your's! (And I can prove it with your photo).

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Ed Conrad
PS: Have a pleasant day!


Ed's just another bull**** baron who has buffaloed some unquestioning
media scribe. It happens all too often. The only direct link I can
make between Humans and Coal is what Santa leaves bad little children in
their stockings. Perhaps Ed can write a thesis to meet the "proof" of that.

RMOLLISE wrote:
Ed Conrad wrote:

Polite and friendly, he's a mild-mannered gentleman with a calming
voice. A fatherly type with a heart of gold.



Eddie is neither polite nor friendly.

We wouldn't notice he existed if no one replied. A well oiled killfile
works wonders.