Perfect fossil could be most complete dinosaur ever

New Scientists ^ | 13 October 2011 | Jeff Hecht

[SunkenCiv]

Dinosaur fossils don't come much more impressive than this. With 98 per cent of its skeleton preserved, this young predatory theropod from southern Germany may be the most complete dinosaur ever found. Oliver Rauhut, curator of the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology in Munich, announced the find yesterday.

Although Chinese bird and dinosaur fossils are famed for delicate details such as their feathers, they don't match this 72-centimetre-long theropod in terms of clarity and completeness of preservation.

The young dinosaur has been dated at 135 million years old, putting it in the early Cretaceous, but it has yet to be named and described formally. It will go on show to the public at the Munich Mineral show, which starts on 27 October.

[SunkenCiv]

When will you humans figure out that size doesn’t matter?

[adorno]

So if complex structures, by their very complexity, require a designer, tell me who designed the designer?

Well then, the only "logical" answer is that, even the designer was a result of random acts of nature. Which then begs the question, 'was nature the result of random acts of nature?'.

Myself, I've always wondered how random acts of nature could come up with such things as, for example, a knee, which seems to have a design and a purpose. Think about "purpose" along with "design", and then, see if there doesn't seem to be a purpose with the designs?

It's like, there's a purpose behind every design. Random acts of nature don't have a goal or a purpose in mind.

[SunkenCiv]

The ex cathedra claim that a designer is required is also a priori, and by that standard has nothing to do with logic.

The Religion forum here on FR is the best place to have those kinds of discussions.

[MortMan]

In before the Helen Thomas pics!

[MortMan]

Darn you to heck!

[SunkenCiv]

It was a relief that the suspense didn't last long.

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[JoeProBono]

[RegulatorCountry]

She looks so much younger there, bless her heart.

My how the millennia have flown.

[count-your-change]

Provenance?

[Iscool]

It’s Dino...Still got the newspaper under it chin where he dropped it...

[null and void]

Reverse the colors and it’s Barney!

[MaxMax]

Perfect fossil could be most complete dinosaur ever

Dear, Dirka, Dirka, and Dirka,
I'm changing my will.

I wish to be buried under the upper bottom of the Mississippi 50ft below.

Payment enclosed.

[muir_redwoods]

Not the least bit of sense, but thanks for trying.

[MaxMax]

It’s done by hand, sometimes with a dremel tool type thing.

Um, it's "Thingy" not just thing. Show some respect.

[muir_redwoods]

So you defer to an unnamed other authority and have no answer. Thanks

[count-your-change]

I know a good name for it! Ida! No? Oh yeah, that’s been done, missing link, missing half, big money.

[decimon]

A Helen Thomas pic? Et tu, Civ?

BTW, that fossil was singing Sweet Adeline.

[Daffynition]

I have a bone to pick with youse two guyz...WTH is that?

[SkyPilot]

The ex cathedra claim that a designer is required is also a priori, and by that standard has nothing to do with logic.

How can the subject of God as the creator be "ex cathedra" when God is expressed in the affirmative, but in your world view to consider His very work is to be dismissed as illogical?

You used 50 cent words to say this: 'I don't even want to consider God, so I won't even consider it - and if you even bring it up, I'll attack the messenger as being unscientific and illogical.'

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them."

Romans 1: 18-19

[mountainlion]

ex cathedra? priori?

You do not make much sense. Spell check doesn't even like your words. Nice picture though.