ALLEGAN, Mich. - Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian?

The 11-year-old boy, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, went with his family during winter break to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum's Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time. Not one visitor had reported anything amiss with the exhibit until Kenton noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, identified the Precambrian as an era.

Kenton knew that was wrong. His fifth-grade teacher, John Chapman, had nearly made the same mistake in a classroom earth-science lesson before catching himself.

"I knew Mr. Chapman wouldn't tell all these students" bad information, the boy told the Kalamazoo Gazette for a story published Wednesday.

So Kevin Stufflebeam took his son to the museum's information desk to report Kenton's concern on a comment form. Last week, the boy received a letter from the museum acknowledging that his observation was "spot on."

"The Precambrian is a dimensionless unit of time, which embraces all the time between the origin of Earth and the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time," the letter says.

The solution to the problem would not involve advanced science but rather simply painting over the word "era," the note says.

"We did forward a copy of the comment and our paleobiology department's response to the head of the exhibits department," said Lorraine Ramsdell, educational technician for the museum.

While no previous visitors to the museum had brought up the error, it has long rankled the paleobiology department's staff, who noticed it even before the Tower of Time was erected 27 years ago, she said.

"The question is, why was it put up with that on it in the first place?" Ramsdell said.

Excited as he was to receive the correspondence from museum officials, he couldn't help but point out that it was addressed to Kenton Slufflebeam.

In Allegany.

It just seems like he has a good memory, nothing that special.

Isn't the precambrian an era? Like 87% of the worlds history? Damn. That kids an observant one.

Isn't the precambrian an era? Like 87% of the worlds history? Damn. That kids an observant one.

Starting from Earth's creation.

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Holy shit. 1000th post.

there was no precambrian time period. God created this world approximately 4000 years ago, and therefore humans walked it and kept track of time, starting at 2000 b.c. knowing the saviors birth year and kept track of everything that happened in small notebooks, saving it for the greatest book of all time. Stupid boy, he should have told them that this time should not be on there at all. And dinosaurs were planted by the asshole jews to throw us good JESUS-believeing members of society off.

TEAR DOWN THE TIME WALL!!!! I demand it be replaced with a portrayal of the book of genesis!

And Noah fit every species of animal onto some boat. And none of them killed each other, because, you know God.. and the Bible.. and stuff.

Thats the relgion origin of earth. This is the physical origin of earth.

God spoke to the animals and told them they had to reproduce later, so they didn't kill each other obviously... and some animals didn't make it... the Jackalope man. and the dodo... their existence was unnecessary...

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You are stupid. there is no other origin of earth. Mine can be proven. READ THE BIBLE!

Wow, this kid must be the next Einstein. lol

God spoke to the animals and told them they had to reproduce later, so they didn't kill each other obviously... and some animals didn't make it... the Jackalope man. and the dodo... their existence was unnecessary...

excellent quote by the way. your effort to make this thread funny is recognized here<--------


You are stupid. there is no other origin of earth. Mine can be proven. READ THE BIBLE!

God spoke to the animals and told them they had to reproduce later, so they didn't kill each other obviously... and some animals didn't make it... the Jackalope man. and the dodo... their existence was unnecessary...

excellent quote by the way. your effort to make this thread funny is recognized here<--------


You are stupid. there is no other origin of earth. Mine can be proven. READ THE BIBLE!

God spoke to the animals and told them they had to reproduce later, so they didn't kill each other obviously... and some animals didn't make it... the Jackalope man. and the dodo... their existence was unnecessary...

excellent quote by the way. your effort to make this thread funny is recognized here<--------


You are stupid. there is no other origin of earth. Mine can be proven. READ THE BIBLE!

the Bible doesnt PROVE that youre right about the origin of the earth. and if you want to have a religious debate go to the politics and religion forums.

the Bible doesnt PROVE that youre right about the origin of the earth. and if you want to have a religious debate go to the politics and religion forums.

This is not about religion. This is about the FACT that there was no precambrian time period, so there should be no time period for it on the wall at all. the young boy should never have spotted it because it shouldn't be there. Is anyone actually intelligent enough in here to see these TRUTHS!?!?!?!? There are SO MANY people that don't believe this crap, and therefore YOU shouldn't either!!!

YES THERE WAS LOOK IT UP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precambrian

Why do you keep bringing old threads up?

Bringing up just about all dead old topics is annoying.