Does Malachite Man prove the Earth is only 6000 years old?

Or, how to use mental gymnastics to try and prove any crazy idea you can think of.

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Discoverer Lin Ottinger with Malachite Man

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In 1971, a bulldozer at the Big Indian Copper Mine near Moab, UT was scraping off the surface when it happened to damage two buried human skeletons. When this happens, places such as mines or construction sites have to call up state archaeologists to have the find evaluated. John Marwitt, then Field Director for the Utah Statewide Archaeological Survey, showed up and checked out the bones.

The skeletons were stained green because of the high copper content in the ground (it was, after all, a copper mine). But the ground itself was part of the Dakota Sandstone formation, some 100 million years old, from the Cretaceous period — the time of the dinosaurs. Creationist Joe Taylor named the skeletons Malachite Man after their green color (malachite being a common local mineral that’s green). How could human skeletons be found in 100 million year old earth, unless humans and dinosaurs coexisted?