Posted on 07/28/2008 2:17:21 PM PDT by Soliton
The limestone contains two distinct prints — one of a human footprint and one belonging to a dinosaur. The significance of the cement-hard fossil is it shows the dinosaur print partially over and intersecting the human print. In other words, the stone’s impressions indicate the human stepped first, the dinosaur second.
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Sorry about that. I didn’t even realize who I was posting to. My head accidentally exploded when my leg was pulled.
I didn’t know it was loaded!
It is physically impossible for the elements on earth to have formed here. Hydrogen and Helium were formed in the Big Bang. Heavier elements were formed in stars. The heaviest elements were formed in super novae. Now you can say that there are no absolutes (and yet you accept them in your rreligion)but there is no doubt in any scientist's mind that stars existed before earth did. None.
http://aether.lbl.gov/www/tour/elements/stellar/stellar_a.html
Did you intend this for another? Or is it a standard diversionary non-sequitur?
I am not fluent in ancient languages. Can you answer the question I posed there?
In the turn-key world that God handed to Adam, the animals, plants, and even the earth itself were made ready-to-go. For example, they looked like 10 yr old animals, looked like 100 yr oaks, and the ground looked old as well, supplying the organic matter to sustain the system. Artists make things that ‘look’ old all the time.
For me it’s no different than the miracles performed by Jesus Christ. He spoke and lepers were healed, etc.
Without faith it is impossible to please God.
Gotta go 700 mi. down the road pronto, no pc, talk to ya later.
It is also possible that the Earth existed as it a body that had life that God considered not suitable and just flushed to start with new stuff. The creation story leaves out as much detail as it gives. So I do not know who's time line it was. There are flaws in almost every interpretation. The reason I asked the ancient language question is because it is clear that ALL Bible stories have been tweaked for effect by translators over the centuries.
Which is more probable?
1) It’s a stegosaurus, 155,000,000 years away from its normal time.
2) It’s an alligator, 700 miles from its normal range.
"And the evening and the morning were the Nth day."
Every day that is except the seventh.
One could argue that the seventh day hasn't ended yet...
One could also argue that the creation story of Genesis was adopted by the Jews from the Babylonians during the exile and that it is a pre-science attempt at explaining everything. It does not match in any way our scientific understanding.
To date, all of the previous human footprint dinosaur fossils have been mistaken identity or outright fraud. This one will be the same if they ever let a scientist examine it.
Three things occur to me about that petroglyph:
1. If the artist was painting an animal he was familiar with, how come he got the details so wrong? The plates are the wrong shape, and where are the tail spikes? Why does it have horns? You’d think a real live stegosaur would have made more of an impression.
2. At least some of those petroglyphs apparently postdate the arrival of Europeans—there’s a picture of a horse. How come no Europeans ever reported seeing a stegosaur, if they were still around?
3. Father Marquette, exploring the upper Mississippi in 1673, described “high rocks with hideous monsters painted on them and upon which the bravest Indian dare not look. They are as large as a calf, with claws and horns like a goat, their eyes are red, beard like a tiger’s and a face like a man’s. Their tails are so long that they pass over their bodies and between their legs under their bodies, ending like a fish’s tail. They are painted red, green and black...” Are we supposed to believe the Piasa Bird really existed too?
Indians were always in the habit of touching petroglyphs up every few decades or so; the horns on the Agawa Rock glyph were added at a much later date. Indian oral traditions describe Mishipishu has having a sawblade back, a cat-like face, red fur, and a “great spiked tail” which he used as a weapon, i.e. a stegosaur. Best book on the topic is probably Vine DeLoria’s “Red Earth, White Lies”. Vine of course was a past president of the National Council of American Indians and probably the best known of all native American authors.
The whole thing about dinosaurs dying out 70,000,000 years ago which you’ve heard all your life turns out to be a bunch of BS.
Agreed, they are finding dinosaur bones with fresh bone marrow inside now, they are not very old at all.
You are right that the ancient scriptural texts we have to hand show evidence of translator tweaking etc. However, the stunning thing that many scholars have missed because they are so busy trying to debunk traditional views, is that the very techniques (textual criticism, linguistic analysis etc.) used to debunk, can be used to establish something astonishing.
http://www.aroumah.net/agora/rendsburg01-politics.php
My question has always been: how did animals survive while waiting millions of years for extra, added features to evolve on them that were the one and only thing that made them survive?
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