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The initial post is real science…

Oh, no. No it isn't. No no no no no.

Real science looks like this: Mechanisms of soft tissue and protein preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex | Scientific Reports
and this: Soft tissue and cellular preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to the present

The initial post is actually a deliberate deception by creationists, recycled by another conspiracy theorist who plainly doesn't understand what they're looking at or are talking about. What they've done there - using C-14 to date non-organic dinosaur fossil samples - is like trying to measure your book shelves using a ruler marked out in miles, and then going "aha" when you get a result that doesn't make sense.

The original C-14 to date dinosaur bones chicanery was done by the 'International Paleo-chronology Group'/'Paleochronology Group'. These are a group of woo peddlers of various flavours, made up of a former chemistry lab technician, a retired accountant, a physicist and an amateur geologist. All hold an a-priori belief in a young earth, and believe dinosaurs and men co-existed and that evolution is impossible. Some are also geocentrists, others are flat earthers, and one even thinks that getting rid of Latin mass was a Satanic conspiracy.
 
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Darwin was unaware of things Michael Cremo is aware of…

I'm sure he was. That in no way makes ANYTHING Michael Cremo has written or said correct or even plausible.

Darwin's theory was developed to explain the observed evidence from nature. It has since been developed and rigorously tested over 150 years and remains the best supported and most powerful explanation of the diversity and history of life.

Cremo's writings are religiously motivated palp that takes various anomalous or poorly documented finds and attempts to use them to justify an a-priori conclusion. All claims opposing the mainstream view are immediately accepted, no matter how wild or illfounded they are, while all of the conventional interpretations are immediately gainsaid, despite a wealth of supporting evidence. Forbidden Archeology is an impersonation of science, while actually being the antithesis of it.

temples in India are dedicated to events from millions of years ago

Which doesn't mean that these events actually occurred. Humans tell stories, and myth/legend and history have only really diverged as genres in the last 500 to 600 years (roughly).
 
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Humans tell stories,

“After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien
 
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All claims opposing the mainstream view are immediately accepted, no matter how wild …

Michael Cremo thinks humanity is ancient…


Venus was habitable for 2 billion years


Perhaps we migrated here from elsewhere
 
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Michael Cremo thinks humanity is ancient…

For religious reasons. Not for reasons based on rational conclusions drawn from evidence.


Venus was habitable for 2 billion years

Venus likely had liquid water for a period of 900 million to 1 billion years. Which means it was potentially habitable. To MICROBES, not to humans. And, that period was finished nearly 4 billion years ago.


https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006895

Perhaps we migrated here from elsewhere

Perhaps we spontaneously sublimed from the air too.
 
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Theropod dinosaurs are still with us. They've just evolved somewhat to live in the current environment.

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