Ancient Crocodile Found in Australia

Yahoo News ^ | Feb. 23, 2005 | Reuters

[WindOracle]

New species of crocodile? Sounds like a very old species to me.

[SunkenCiv]

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[WindOracle]

Maybe you can show me the historical facts of the piece.

Here is a historical fact about it, an ancient crocodile existed in that place in the distant past. Given that the croc was not alive at least in contemporary times makes it, by definition, historical.
Perhaps it is history you feel is irrelevant, or whatever, but it is historical nevertheless, and SOME of us find such things interesting even if you're world-view is so narrow that you do not. Such an insistence on the part of some people to turn every such article into an evolution debate indicates not only a narrow world-view, but a certain obsessiveness bordering on psychosis. A need for psychological help may be indicated.
Otherwise, if you have no interest in it, and feel the whole thing is stupid or whatever, why not just ignore the thread and stop trying to turn everything into an evolution debate?

[microgood]

Otherwise, if you have no interest in it, and feel the whole thing is stupid or whatever, why not just ignore the thread and stop trying to turn everything into an evolution debate?

This a conservative news forum, not a science forum. The only reason people post articles like this on freerepublic is to start and evolution fight.

[microgood]

Chapter? Have you written a book?

No, that was a quote from a book:

Betrayers of the Truth (1982) p.108 William Broad and Nicholas Wade

[PatrickHenry]

Worth a ping?

Would have been, but the Luddites have swamped it. We'll find something better. It's just another gap that got filled. There will be others.

[elli1]

Enough already. You've made your point & now you're starting to piss people off.

[Tallguy]

This a conservative news forum, not a science forum. The only reason people post articles like this on freerepublic is to start and evolution fight.

So now we're not allowed to post articles that you don't agree with. When did you appoint yourself Moderator?

[microgood]

So now we're not allowed to post articles that you don't agree with.

I did not say that. I just said that when articles about evolution are posted that they are usually trying to get an evolution discussion going. I was responding to WildOrchid who was complaining to someone that he was turning in an evolutionary post into an evolutionary discussion.

Maybe those that post articles about evolution are trying to just discuss it among scientists, I just have never seen one that turned out that way.

[PoorMuttly]

Oops.

Shaggy and I ate one of those last week. We didn't know it was valuable. Perhaps we could have traded it for a whole bunch of those delicious and crunchy Orc thingies we keep chasing around his place.

Brrruuuuuup. S'cuse me.

I'm a little excrescent today...for some reason.

[DGray]

Amen, newfarm. I love the great articles posted to the GGG ping list, but it's getting to where I dread reading the comments because of all the folks who are determined to drown out rational two-way discussion. I understand that there are differing views about evolution and it's a valid topic to discuss, but I don't understand people who deliberately try to disrupt and hijack threads that weren't designed to be debate threads. It's like having a quiet lunch at a nice cafe invaded by people yelling and banging pots and pans.

[shaggy eel]

,,, we can recycle it! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnNNNnnn.

[fortheDeclaration]

Enough already. You've made your point & now you're starting to piss people off.

If people (such as yourself) would not ping me, I would not be responding.

[fortheDeclaration]

I wonder how these guys define a fact

[fortheDeclaration]

I have no problem with saying that you have found a certain species of crocodile, but to establish the ages between 30-60 millions is mixing fact with fiction.

If they had left out the dating nonsense (which they do not know is a fact, it is a speculation with a 30 million year gap between!) they could have dealt with history and not myth.

No historical event could get away with saying something is historically true and then attempting to make 'guesses' historical facts.

[fortheDeclaration]

They are under strong delusion (Rom.1, 2Thess.2)

[DannyTN]

"However, the ancient crocodile had sharper and laterally compressed teeth enabling it to sheer prey and an extra jaw muscle to give a stronger, more powerful bite."

They found something that works and stuck with it all through history"

So what we see is statis (no change) and devolution (less sharp teeth, loss of jaw muscle.)

[maestro]

........Ancient Crocodile 'Code' Found in 30-60 Million Dollar 'Section' of Australia?

;-)

[fortheDeclaration]

So what we see is statis (no change) and devolution (less sharp teeth, loss of jaw muscle.)

Excellent observation.

[x]

He is getting a little "long in the tooth":