YES, IT'S TRUE! -- Ed Conrad Throws in Towel, Selling All of His Rocks on eBay

"I refuse to quit but I surrender!"
-- Ed Conrad

"Type A" posted to talk.origins, alerting us that Ed Conrad has
just put his "coal-age petrified bones, teeth and soft organs --
some human" -- up for sale on eBay. "Type A" thinks he has
finally thrown in the towel (Thank God!).

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A list of Conrad's rocks and how he described them...

DISCOVERY OF PETRIFIED BONES, TEETH AND SOFT
ORGANS BETWEEN ANTHRACITE VEINS CONFIRMS
THEORY OF MAN'S EVOLUTION UNMITIGATED CRAP
(Here's the Proof -- All in a Nutshell)

http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/FirstDiscovery.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ManasOl...iscoveries.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Evidence/MoreFossils.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/ManasOldasCoal.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/TestResults.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/OldestTool.jpg

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"Type A" wrote:

Ed Conrad has struck again. Either this guy is a hapless victim
of his own mega-discovery or a master scamster.

What kid hasn't dreamed of stumbling across a fossil bone
in his own backyard?

Conrad claims to have found dem bones by the bucketful.
Now Mr. Ed has listed yhem on eBay ("antiques"?!?)
which he hopes to sell for an outlandish price.

This fang certainly resembles a giant meat-eater's tooth to my
amateur eye.

Razorbacks are an area buzz kill for campers, and I can only
magine what this honking big tooth whittled up for lunch.

So what is it? Is this the grand-daddy of Hogzilla? Is man and
barbecue "as old as coal" as Conrad's website claims? Is this
guy a savant or just an idiot?

I've watched the Conrad bouts with the fascination I usually
reserve for rollerball, and can only presume he got das boot
as there has been a decided lull in the action.

His website is still the same mix of coal miner mysticism
and Intelligent Design science, and his eBay listing looks
like he cut and pasted the weirdest specimens to up the ante
for his "giant tooth" as well as all of his other "rocks."

I'd like to have any educated input about the "giant tooth"
allegedly found scientifically out-of-place in Carboniferous
strata, or any other educated observations about the "antiques"
Conrad has posted as support for his current offering on eBay.

The operative word here is "educated." And what the hell are
those fingers from? Thanks for any observations.

Ed Conrad's eBay listings:

http://cgi.ebay.com/-Science-Antique...1QcmdZViewItem

On 2 Jul 2006 13:56:04 -0700, Gave us:



Are you even selling the rocks in your head, spammer?