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Fossils Point to Oldest Life on Earth


1 posted on 06/07/2006 1:35:58 PM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone

I clicked here just for the specific purpose of posting a Helen Thomas pic...


2 posted on 06/07/2006 1:36:31 PM PDT by RockinRight (She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
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To: areafiftyone
....odd-shaped, rock-like mounds


4 posted on 06/07/2006 1:38:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: areafiftyone

more BS from the Church of Liberalism.


6 posted on 06/07/2006 1:39:52 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: areafiftyone

According to Fenton and Fenton [1989 edition) "The Fossil Book", by the time of the book, stromatolites were generally accepted as fossils of algae; living stromatolites could be found in Australia.

Not sure where the news is on this... they seem a little behind the times.


13 posted on 06/07/2006 1:43:00 PM PDT by mcashman
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To: areafiftyone

She's undead; not technically old "life."

Eats unbaptised babies, I understand.


20 posted on 06/07/2006 1:50:34 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: areafiftyone

Stromatolite Primer:

http://www.fossilmall.com/Science/About_Stromatolite.htm


28 posted on 06/07/2006 2:05:04 PM PDT by 2nsdammit (By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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To: areafiftyone

3.4 million eh?

Well, the Bible clearly says that plants came from the earth, and plants were formed a long time before the dinosaurs (oops, birds) and fish were created, so I guess this is just another case of science finally getting around to agreeing with Genesis.


29 posted on 06/07/2006 2:07:08 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: areafiftyone
Darwinism is so absurd, they are now bringing L. Ron Hubbard and alien beings into the theory.
33 posted on 06/07/2006 2:10:19 PM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Jesus always reads His knee-mail. (Hall of Fame Hit-N-Run poster))
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To: areafiftyone

Thank you for at least not posting not posting an oversize picture of "The Fossil".


37 posted on 06/07/2006 2:19:20 PM PDT by Boiler Plate (Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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To: areafiftyone

We can match up old Helen with Murtha. That would make an even ugly moment...one for the left eye and one for the other left eye. Since this species thrives well and lives long then Darwin got it all wrong.


41 posted on 06/07/2006 2:22:28 PM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: areafiftyone

If they died 3.4 billion years ago, why are they calling it the oldest LIFE on Earth?


46 posted on 06/07/2006 2:38:14 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: areafiftyone
Stromatolites.

These look like pics of the ones offshore India.


57 posted on 06/07/2006 2:51:37 PM PDT by djf (Bedtime story: Once upon a time, they snuck on the boat and threw the tea over. In a land far away..)
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To: areafiftyone

I was thinking Don Imus.


59 posted on 06/07/2006 2:52:35 PM PDT by airborne (Satan's greatest trick was convincing people he doesn't exist.)
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To: areafiftyone
"These are too complicated to be attributed to non-biological processes - but we don't know that for a fact."

That is not "science". Everybody knows you can't differentiate "design".

126 posted on 06/07/2006 6:57:40 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: SunkenCiv

This might interest you.


131 posted on 06/07/2006 7:07:44 PM PDT by annie laurie (All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
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To: areafiftyone
"One of the clinchers was categorizing them into seven repeating subtypes, which indicates they weren't random.

Odd, the use of that word - patterns and randomness may be at once the beginning and the sum of what we know?

393 posted on 06/08/2006 6:29:38 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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566 posted on 06/17/2006 3:00:18 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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