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Spider 'is 20 million years old'
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| 9/30/05
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Posted on 09/30/2005 9:17:27 AM PDT by bigmac0707
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To: bigmac0707
But that's not possible, because Bishop Ussher tells us the world was formed as it is in the year 4004 BCE.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:18:32 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: bigmac0707
Wow.
Think of all those aching knees!
Dan
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:18:44 AM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: Alter Kaker
How do you suppose he came to the conclusion it was 20 million years old?
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:19:40 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: bigmac0707
"4cm long by 2cm wide fossil"
Let's hope this was not a baby.
Otherwise, the movie ends badly (for the humans).
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:19:57 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(A good friend helps you move. A great friend helps you move a body.)
To: bigmac0707
All dating methods are highly suspect.
To: bigmac0707
Here's a photo of the spider. Very cool.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:20:49 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Alter Kaker
Hey, that's right! The world must have been created in 4004 BCE with the spider already stuck in the amber.
To: SmartCitizen
Yeah, going to bars just doesn't work.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:21:17 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(Hence, etc.)
To: mlc9852
How do you suppose he came to the conclusion it was 20 million years old? Most likely carbon dating coupled with at what level in the strata the amber was discovered.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:22:09 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: SmartCitizen
All dating methods are highly suspect.No they are not. Well, not by those grounded in the observable world.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:22:34 AM PDT
by
corkoman
(Overhyped)
To: SmartCitizen
I think a dinner and a movie are respectable enough.
To: Prime Choice
Relative of
this guy, for our Florida freepers...
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:22:38 AM PDT
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: SmartCitizen
All dating methods are highly suspect. You're right...it should all be done by arranged marriage alone.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:22:53 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: TheGhostOfTomPaine
The Flying Spaghetti Monster hath stuck again! Ramen!
Hey, that's right! The world must have been created in 4004 BCE with the spider already stuck in the amber.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:23:43 AM PDT
by
Salo
(He hath touched me with his noodly appendage. Ramen.)
To: bigmac0707
Was it Helen Thomas' childhood pet?
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:23:44 AM PDT
by
exile
(Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
To: SmartCitizen
All dating methods are highly suspect. That's what ALL my dates told me, too.........
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:23:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
To: exile
Was it Helen Thomas' childhood pet? I think it was Helen Thomas before she shedded her skin.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:25:00 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Prime Choice
I was under the impression carbon dating isn't reliable past 50,000 years or so.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:25:11 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: mlc9852; MeanWestTexan
It doesn't say which dating methods were used here, only that the date was determined by extracting blood-- and I'm not sure how one would date something based on organic materials. Unless the spider was radioactive of course. (In that case, the movie ends up really bad for the humans)
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