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Show Another Scientific "Find" Perhaps, clams will settle that little issue between Father Adam and Step-father Gorilla. ' Eighty feet high above Eel river, in a bluff near bcotia, C-rf the miles from the ocean, a bed of live clams has been found 'tU claimed. The bi-valves didn't climb there from the Pacific. The alternative is to believe that that bluff has been their permanent residence for a long time. :. - -. Now it is rather difficult to tell whether a clam is dead or alive, without eating it and Dr. Ralph Cheny, paleontologist paleontolo-gist of the University of California, maintains that those clams, alive, are, scientifically, an impossibility. Simply, they must belong to the Pliocene age and be at least a million and a half years old. Adam can't be that old, because we have records of his begats. On the other hand, in a million and a half years the "orilla'might have time to branch off and descend to man. b Sometimes, a layman wishes that the archeologists would quit digging out things. Every bone, shell and fossil i dug up so messes up the ancestry. |