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Fossil female pterosaur found with preserved egg
BBC News ^ | 02/01/2011 | Jonathan Amos

Posted on 02/01/2011 11:58:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
You know I would really like to believe this find. But... China fakes toothpaste.

Any finds in China whether fossil, archaeological or technological I tend to view with suspicion.

It would be a very cool find. If it were real.

41 posted on 02/01/2011 7:46:17 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (When all you have is bolt cutters & vodka everything looks like the lock on Wolf Blitzer's boathouse)
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To: Greenbow

Don’t mind the naysayers Greenbow ~ you are not alone in your spiritual beliefs. There are many here at FR who do see a scientific explanation for a young Earth and universe.

See creationscience.com for the best overall vantage point imho.

Also some more info on my links page.


42 posted on 02/01/2011 8:04:20 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: nuke rocketeer

How about 101 proofs ignored by our modern-day secular scientists in favor of radio-isotope dating and all it’s inherent flaws?

101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2264681/posts

Don’t throw starlight into this argument either w/o fully understanding Einstein’s work or better yet reading Russell Humphrey’s book ‘Starlight and Time’ to better grasp the apparent age of starlight.


43 posted on 02/01/2011 8:10:35 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels; The_Victor; RockinRight

It’s very obvious you neither understand the math of physics or you would not post that kind of crap. The speed of light is fixed, and the distances to other stars and galaxies can be accurately determined. Face it, you cannot prove with consistent math that those galaxies are not up to several billion light years away from Earth, and that light has been traveling for that amount of time.


44 posted on 02/01/2011 8:25:00 PM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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To: BrandtMichaels; The_Victor; RockinRight

It’s very obvious you neither understand the math of physics or you would not post that kind of crap. The speed of light is fixed, and the distances to other stars and galaxies can be accurately determined. Face it, you cannot prove with consistent math that those galaxies are not up to several billion light years away from Earth, and that light has been traveling for that amount of time.

That thread you pointed to was just more of the same garbage of creationism’s “God made everything in 6 24 hour days” trying to pose as science I’ve seen posted here for the last few years.

You can try to blow off radioisotope dating, but then how do you explain nuclear physics of which this is an integral part? How can we make nuclear explosions and power plants work if it is not true? Again, you have absolutely no coherent and consistent explanation complete with the math. You cannot cherry pick which parts of physics you want to believe and which you will not accept, It is a unified whole that all fits together and gives an explanation of how the universe works that fits all of the observed data and has a consistent and coherent mathematical proof.


45 posted on 02/01/2011 8:34:56 PM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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To: SunkenCiv
A pterodactyl was a flyin' fool
Just a breeze flappin daddy of the old school
But a mama dactyl could sure make him drool
Aaaaah - eee - yaaah!

Ape call, doodly - ah - bah
Dont be square Joe. Go ape!

Nervous Norvus, 1956


46 posted on 02/01/2011 8:36:50 PM PST by kitchen (One battle rifle for each person, and a spare for each pair.)
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To: nuke rocketeer
Every scientist I know, myself included, is a devoted Christian. The elegance of the design; the math, and physics, is not something that could be arbitrary. I find it strange that some people find it easier to believe that the evidence is mistaken, than it is to believe that a document written over 2000 years ago, has been interpreted and translated flawlessly.
47 posted on 02/02/2011 3:25:20 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time.

Ewwwwww, that's just sick and plain dirty.


48 posted on 02/02/2011 4:51:26 AM PST by Condor51 (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Congressman. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain])
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To: SeekAndFind
"The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female."

How can they be sure they weren't like penguins where the male also spends time incubating the egg?

49 posted on 02/02/2011 4:56:32 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: SeekAndFind
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female,...

I always thought the way to tell the sex of a pterosaur was to tell it a joke. If he laughs it's a male, but if she laughs it's a female.

50 posted on 02/02/2011 6:42:50 AM PST by curmudgeonII (Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit.)
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To: The_Victor

And the fact those laws were set in the first split second of the big bang.


51 posted on 02/02/2011 6:44:07 AM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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To: SeekAndFind

“The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time. “

Translation: It allowed the researchers to pronounce another assumption.

The male of some species of birds (such as penguins) also sit on their eggs while their mate is away looking for food. What scientific evidence do they have that this bird is not male?


52 posted on 02/02/2011 8:00:31 AM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Immerito

“The male of some species of birds (such as penguins) also sit on their eggs while their mate is away looking for food.”

—In this case, however, it doesn’t appear that the egg had even been laid yet.


53 posted on 02/02/2011 10:47:22 AM PST by goodusername
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To: SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv

Ptruly a wonderful find!


54 posted on 02/02/2011 11:26:01 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: kitchen

:’)


55 posted on 02/02/2011 3:22:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: colorado tanker

Pthat’s ptrue.


56 posted on 02/02/2011 8:34:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: nuke rocketeer

I understand the math well enough to know that radio-isotope dating has certain assumptions inherent in it.

I understand it well enough to know that evolutionists would like to cover-up millions of year old anomolies w/ Mt. St. Helens to call them xenoliths (or some such) and claim that it doesn’t expose radio-isotope dating for the fraud that it is.

I understand Einstein’s work well enough to know the starlight shows apparent age now actual earth-days age.

I understand nuclear physics well enough to know that the power comes from splitting the uranium (or other radioactive) atoms rather than the radio-isotope decay rates for same.

I understand when modern day scientists calls something that can not be observed nor repeated ‘science’

I understand how to read and research both sides of an argument before I go spouting off and labeling others work as crap.


57 posted on 02/03/2011 7:38:32 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: nuke rocketeer

Another assumption that you simply can not prove.

How long was that split second? What is the 1st cause of the big bang?


58 posted on 02/03/2011 7:40:19 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: nuke rocketeer

And I understand the math well enough to know that it disproves old-age evolution where you would need several orders of magnitude more than billions of years for evolution to NOT be a fairy-tale.

I understand how evolution can not explain the Cambrian explosion, polystrate fossils, thousands upon thousands of missing links, stasis in the fossil record, and more exposed and outright fraud than, not only any other branch of science, but more than all of the other branches of science combined.

Face it long ages evolution is toast just like global warming.


59 posted on 02/03/2011 7:48:20 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: nuke rocketeer

Ohhh

one more thing

I understand that true science does not cherry pick just the data that it needs to supoort a theory while discarding or defaming all the counter-evolutionary data.


60 posted on 02/03/2011 7:51:33 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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