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Old 17-06-2016, 21:39
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Creationist w****r Ray Comfort demolishes the Big Bang theory (and no it's not satire).

"Now according to the atheists and scientists, everything in the universe started at one single point and eventually traveled to their current locations. But how is that possible?

"I think we all can agree that the pineapple is one of nature's strongest fruits. But even considering its incredible strength, it's hard to imagine pineapples surviving the trip all the way from the center of the universe to Earth.

"Maybe rocks, mountains, and even oceans can voyage through deep space. But what about the rest of God's creation? How did things like pineapples, carrots or goats travel all that way? God must have created them, right here on Earth."

Forget about pineapples though as he has already slaughtered evolution with his Banana demonstration.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

What is so frightening is that this nutjob has followers all over the world.

Funnily enough the religions that make the most sense to me are those so called 'primitive' ones that worship nature (for example by tribes like the Waorani) or the sun such as by the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/201...es-for-science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Yahweh is not an entity I would wish to worship.
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Old 18-06-2016, 01:00
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The Hadrosaur ('duck-billed' dinosaur) Anatosaurus was truly massive when a mature adult, the perfect storm of humans and climate change that spelled doom for the megafauna in the Americas, the earliest known example of a large animal moving on it's own across the seabed and finally some new footprints of Homo erectus have been discovered.

http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/?p=549

http://www.livescience.com/55113-hum...megafauna.html

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ng-on-its-own/

http://www.seeker.com/800000-year-ol...864725487.html
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Old 18-06-2016, 02:31
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Creationist w****r Ray Comfort demolishes the Big Bang theory (and no it's not satire).

"Now according to the atheists and scientists, everything in the universe started at one single point and eventually traveled to their current locations. But how is that possible?

"I think we all can agree that the pineapple is one of nature's strongest fruits. But even considering its incredible strength, it's hard to imagine pineapples surviving the trip all the way from the center of the universe to Earth.

"Maybe rocks, mountains, and even oceans can voyage through deep space. But what about the rest of God's creation? How did things like pineapples, carrots or goats travel all that way? God must have created them, right here on Earth."

Forget about pineapples though as he has already slaughtered evolution with his Banana demonstration.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

What is so frightening is that this nutjob has followers all over the world.
It is frightening and followers of such types seem spoilt for choice these days and I keep getting David Grohl lyrics on my internal radio.

Funnily enough the religions that make the most sense to me are those so called 'primitive' ones that worship nature (for example by tribes like the Waorani) or the sun such as by the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/201...es-for-science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Yahweh is not an entity I would wish to worship.
Way I think of it is that people in those quite recent times would have had mental capacity identical to our own. But without the advantage of historical knowledge of how they got there and how language developed, they (everyone from rulers to storytellers) could only try to fill the huge gaps in their understanding (to the satisfaction of their subjects and customers respectively) with feasible guesses.

Wouldn't take many generations to forget that that's all the religions and superstitions of the time were based on and they'd likely resent any suggestion to that effect. At least they built durable artefacts to amaze us...

Didn't ISIS exclaim that Egyptians wouldn't be permitted to build any more pyramids under Sharia law?
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Old 20-06-2016, 20:13
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It is frightening and followers of such types seem spoilt for choice these days and I keep getting David Grohl lyrics on my internal radio.

Way I think of it is that people in those quite recent times would have had mental capacity identical to our own. But without the advantage of historical knowledge of how they got there and how language developed, they (everyone from rulers to storytellers) could only try to fill the huge gaps in their understanding (to the satisfaction of their subjects and customers respectively) with feasible guesses.

Wouldn't take many generations to forget that that's all the religions and superstitions of the time were based on and they'd likely resent any suggestion to that effect. At least they built durable artefacts to amaze us...

Didn't ISIS exclaim that Egyptians wouldn't be permitted to build any more pyramids under Sharia law?
A very good post.

The Devonian fish (Qingmenodus yui) gives a unique insight into early the early evolution of crown Sarcopterygians (of which we as Tetrapods are a member).

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-devonia...hts-early.html

The truly gigantic ammonite Parapuzosia.

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...mesozoic-deep/

Anatosaurus may not have reached quite the massive dimensions in the article I posted (the rex was far too small) - here is a more realistic size comparison.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z...-no/karo-8.png
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Old 24-06-2016, 20:48
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A nice little video on the remarkable living fishing rod Tanystropheus, Australian fossil hunters and the little known but gigantic azhdarchid pterosaur Arambourgiania philadelphiae.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXbTiob_qRs

http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/dinos.../#gPemHe4m0OqW

http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/women.../#U6WBcWYBumqp

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...ourgiania.html
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Old 26-06-2016, 05:16
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More musings on Dromaeosaurids and cannibalism in the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus torosus.

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discov...of-cannibalism

http://images.earthtouchnews.com/med...2015-05-09.jpg

http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...n-part_24.html
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Old 28-06-2016, 17:17
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This is simply incredible - the discovery of the wings of enantiornithine birds that have been preserved for all eternity in amber.

http://www.seeker.com/dinosaur-era-b...888458950.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...nantiornithes/

http://www.livescience.com/55211-din...-in-amber.html

http://www.livescience.com/55208-pho...-in-amber.html
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Old 02-07-2016, 01:03
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The forgotten genius of Baron Franz Nopcsa, how pterosaurs flew as such gigantic sizes and Mark Witton's new book is out.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...959504/?no-ist

https://theconversation.com/pterosau...anage-it-60892

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...ng-age-of.html
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Old 02-07-2016, 13:14
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Creationist w****r Ray Comfort demolishes the Big Bang theory (and no it's not satire).

"Now according to the atheists and scientists, everything in the universe started at one single point and eventually traveled to their current locations. But how is that possible?

"I think we all can agree that the pineapple is one of nature's strongest fruits. But even considering its incredible strength, it's hard to imagine pineapples surviving the trip all the way from the center of the universe to Earth.

"Maybe rocks, mountains, and even oceans can voyage through deep space. But what about the rest of God's creation? How did things like pineapples, carrots or goats travel all that way? God must have created them, right here on Earth."

Forget about pineapples though as he has already slaughtered evolution with his Banana demonstration.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

What is so frightening is that this nutjob has followers all over the world.

Funnily enough the religions that make the most sense to me are those so called 'primitive' ones that worship nature (for example by tribes like the Waorani) or the sun such as by the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/201...es-for-science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Yahweh is not an entity I would wish to worship.
I guess he's not a Catholic then. The "Big Bang" theory was devised by priest Georges Lemaître. The Pope wanted to declare that Big Bang theory provided a scientific validation basis for Catholicism but Lemaître (wisely) insisted that science and religion be kept apart.
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Old 05-07-2016, 20:21
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The fossil history of deep-sea bone eating worms and the Kalligrammatid lacewings ('butterflies' long before there were modern butterflies).

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...-eating-worms/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...ower-in-sight/
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Old 05-07-2016, 21:28
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Humans may have wiped out "Hobbits":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...y-modern-huma/
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Old 06-07-2016, 18:01
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The first known example of a facial tumour in a dinosaur (the dwarf-duckbill Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus) and a CT scan of Euparkeria capensis that reveals the evolutionary origins of the Archosaurian inner-ear.

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/20...-dinosaur.page

http://www.livescience.com/55287-duc...had-tumor.html

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-compute...evolution.html
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Old 06-07-2016, 19:27
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This thread popped up and I found this quote ;
i'm a mammal and dinosaurs just get on my tits .....
Dinosaurs were too thick for that one.
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Old 06-07-2016, 21:32
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This thread popped up and I found this quote ;

Dinosaurs were too thick for that one.
I don't remember that!
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Old 17-07-2016, 01:17
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The non-avian dinosaur extinction, the mysterious evolution of humans in Asia and some heroes in a half shell.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elemen...-the-dinosaurs

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-fossil-...on-modern.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...efence/491087/

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-real-turtles-shells.html

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/m...jpg?1468410081
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Old 21-07-2016, 08:05
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Dinosaurs literally reshaped the earth, Belemnites and the new Megaraptoran theropod Murusraptor barrosaensis.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...net-180959814/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...he-belemnites/

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016...d-murusraptor/

http://www.seeker.com/new-meat-eatin...934424069.html
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Old 21-07-2016, 20:04
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A Anatosaurus may not have reached quite the massive dimensions in the article I posted (the rex was far too small) - here is a more realistic size comparison.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z...-no/karo-8.png
Was that picture created by an avid reader of early 2000 A.D. ?
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Old 22-07-2016, 17:04
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Was that picture created by an avid reader of early 2000 A.D. ?
I remember Flesh!

Old One Eye and Satanus!

A few recent stories (including f****** Pokemon).

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-wildebe...d-similar.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-inspirations/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...oom-180959868/

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-of-patagonia/
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Old 22-07-2016, 21:28
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You can get archaeopteryx's on pokemon????

Argghh!!!! I want it even more now. Damn my cheap loser phone!!!!!
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Old 22-07-2016, 22:40
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You can get archaeopteryx's on pokemon????

Argghh!!!! I want it even more now. Damn my cheap loser phone!!!!!
I remember that they are your favourite dinosaur.
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Old 24-07-2016, 13:56
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Radio interview with Denver palaeontologist Tyler Lyson about the evolution of the turtle shell as an adaptation for digging rather than defense - the article also includes photos and a brief informative video.

https://www.cpr.org/news/story/why-d...gist-found-out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NphNApmSZ0U

More on Dr Mark Witton's new book - 'Recreating an Age of Reptiles' - one of my favourite of his superb illustrations being the Bronto-smash!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...tton-dinosaurs

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7bcc...sm=12&fit=max&
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A new index reveals what prehistoric mammals were aquatic, semi-aquatic or terrestrial, North America's largest dinosaur the armoured behemoth Alamosaurus, huge foot prints of Smilodon, the most famous of the Pterosaurs - Pteranodon, the possible arboreal habits of the heterodontosaurid Manidens condorensis and finally the origins of life on earth.

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-index-r...l-aquatic.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...inosaur-titan/

http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/sc...jpg?1469420632

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discov...d-in-argentina

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...smantling.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...elling-habits/

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancesto...vironment.html
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