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Hilarious.
Dan Walker - the young earth Creationist who now presents BBC Breakfast shares the couch with the Devil's disciple Steve Brusatte - discussing the Tyrannosaur Timurlengia and holding an obviously fake fossil that Satan buried in the ground to fool all of Humanity. ![]() http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/c...rtable-7558665 |
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Hilarious.
Dan Walker - the young earth Creationist who now presents BBC Breakfast shares the couch with the Devil's disciple Steve Brusatte - discussing the Tyrannosaur Timurlengia and holding an obviously fake fossil that Satan buried in the ground to fool all of Humanity. ![]() http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/c...rtable-7558665 |
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What surprises me is that the BBC can state the age of these fossils as fact. .
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So how old are Tyrannosaur fossils then Zackai?
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Yet another pop at Christians Keyser. What surprises me is that the BBC can state the age of these fossils as fact. I doubt that Dan Walker disputes the existence of dinosaurs, but like me disputes the age attributed to them.
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DETERMINING AGE OF ROCKS AND FOSSILS There's a whole article on Wikipedia about radiometric dating if you'd like to learn more. by Frank K. McKinney The age of fossils intrigues almost everyone. Students not only want to know how old a fossil is, but they want to know how that age was determined. Some very straightforward principles are used to determine the age of fossils. Students should be able to understand the principles and have that as a background so that age determinations by paleontologists and geologists don't seem like black magic. There are two types of age determinations. Geologists in the late 18th and early 19th century studied rock layers and the fossils in them to determine relative age. William Smith was one of the most important scientists from this time who helped to develop knowledge of the succession of different fossils by studying their distribution through the sequence of sedimentary rocks in southern England. It wasn't until well into the 20th century that enough information had accumulated about the rate of radioactive decay that the age of rocks and fossils in number of years could be determined through radiometric age dating... ![]() Remember, not all Christians are young Earth creationists. The latter leave themselves pretty wide open to people having a "pop" at them, to be fair. |
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Yet another pop at Christians Keyser. What surprises me is that the BBC can state the age of these fossils as fact. I doubt that Dan Walker disputes the existence of dinosaurs, but like me disputes the age attributed to them.
![]() Very few Christians are Creationists - at least in this country although I know that the Bible Belt of the US is very different. For example Mary Lou Bruner. How on earth can a individual like this get voted on the influential Texas Board of Education? ![]() http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...textbooks.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/...to_runoff.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/us...ight.html?_r=0 https://www.texasobserver.org/mary-lou-bruner-mcleroy/ |
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In depth articles on the Tully Monster, the weird stories behind America's official state fossils, the evolution of whales, new evidence for humans in late Pleistocene Ireland and the beautifully preserved 12,400 year old puppy discovered in the Siberian permafrost.
![]() http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...onster/473823/ http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...ossils/474117/ http://www.eartharchives.org/article...ion-of-whales/ https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...ocene-ireland/ http://siberiantimes.com/science/cas...r-12400-years/ |
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A lovely video on the transformation of non-avian dinosaurs into birds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAzGC89n0S4 The Dinosaurs Among Us exhibition at the AMNH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y24Q4BxzVu0 Get up close and personal with the Smithsonian's new dinosaurs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...his-3-d-video/ Some more stories. http://www.kspr.com/news/local/henry...51620_38586258 http://phys.org/news/2016-03-saber-t...an-plains.html |
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Some nice palaeo articles from the Smithsonian Magazine.
![]() http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...cut-180958499/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...est-180958510/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ght-180958505/ Other recent stories. http://www.livescience.com/54130-sab...d-animals.html http://www.livescience.com/54123-big...fographic.html http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2...-luis-chiappe/ |
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A polar Dromaeosaur and the bizarre world of the Burgess Shale (this article has some excellent illustrations).
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So how old are Tyrannosaur fossils then Zackai?
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The Bible teaches that God created the world around 6000 years ago, so the fossils can be no older than that.
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The Bible teaches that God created the world around 6000 years ago, so the fossils can be no older than that.
or Seventeenth Century. Typos are a bummer PS. Where have all my posts gone? I've been on this site for 13 years and it says this is my first post |
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The Bible teaches that God created the world around 6000 years ago, so the fossils can be no older than that.
So Göbekli Tepe is twice as old as the earth then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe http://gobeklitepe.info/ Or how about Jericho? First settled around 11,000 years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho Or Çatalhöyük a Neolithic proto-city that is nine millennia old? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk http://www.catalhoyuk.com/ Amazing how they built all of these in the vacuum of space isn't it? I could give plenty of other examples but cannot be bothered. You believe what you like but why post in this thread at all? |
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The Bible teaches nothing of the sort. In fact it was James Ussher who promulgated this rubbish in the Sevententh Century
or Seventeenth Century. Typos are a bummer PS. Where have all my posts gone? I've been on this site for 13 years and it says this is my first post
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There's a bunch of stuff in the news today about finding a pregnant t-rex with the medullary bone present....
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PS. Where have all my posts gone? I've been on this site for 13 years and it says this is my first post |
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Wonderfully preserved ice age puppies:
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-caveman...e-puppies.html But were they anyone's pets? |
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A couple more articles on this topic.http://www.livescience.com/54219-uni...s-siberia.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...say-scientists Just look on the web and type Elasmotherium for illustrations showing how awesome this massive beast really was - one of the most formidable land mammals of all time.
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An interesting read for all your arachnophobes...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35918234 http://www.livescience.com/54229-anc...-a-spider.html The UK's first Brexit. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...stated-britain Beauty is in the eye of the beholder especially when it comes to the Giant Short Faced Hyena (Pachycrocuta brevirostris). https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...-the-beholder/ The evolution of the colossal Sauropods. http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...urs-03741.html http://news.discovery.com/animals/di...urs-160330.htm On the other end of the scale - the tiniest bonehead. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....iest-bonehead/ Finally - the life and times of the mighty Azhdarchid pterosaurs. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...-reptiles.html http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jVmS1sge0N...Blow%2Bres.jpg |
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The Bible teaches that God created the world around 6000 years ago, so the fossils can be no older than that.
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obvious troll is obvious
Despite all of the vast mountains of evidence to the contrary.
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