Posted on 02/23/2006 12:30:53 PM PST by VadeRetro
WASHINGTON - The discovery of a furry, beaver-like animal that lived at the time of dinosaurs has overturned more than a century of scientific thinking about Jurassic mammals.
The find shows that the ecological role of mammals in the time of dinosaurs was far greater than previously thought, said Zhe-Xi Luo, curator of vertebrate paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
The animal is the earliest swimming mammal to have been found and was the most primitive mammal to be preserved with fur, which is important to helping keep a constant body temperature, Luo said in a telephone interview.
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If they're real rock heads they know that dissolved and re-crystallized CaCO3 is what holds most sedimentary rock together.
Hmmm. Post #113 seems clear enough to me. Perhaps you're brain damaged? Or perhaps I am?
Let's take a survey.
Hey everyone! Is post #113 unclear?
Try re-phrazing it
It's clearly a fake, otherwise the same process that fossilized the foot would have fossilized the boot. Duh.
You realize that most rocks are cemented with silica, not carbonate. Silica doesn't dissolve appreciably in cold water.
So what model for your flood account for the rapid dissolution of staggering quantities of SiO2 without harming all those delicate little bones? Or are you going to argue that all fossils are found in carbonate rocks?
Of course, there's the question of where all that water came from and went to, all in a timespan of a few weeks.
However, it seems very implausible that bones and flesh would be "petrified" while the boot, presumably made of leather (another organic material), remained virtually unaltered. This inconsistency alone would warrant that reliable independent investigators be allowed to closely examine the contents of the boot to evaluate Baugh's claims.Carl Baugh's Dumb-Ass Boot
You really shouldn't talk about Helen Thomas like that.
Thanks so much for that link...now, did those creationists really think that their little 'hoax' would not be found out? I notice that this guy has a Creation Evidence Museum in Texas...I need to add that to my list, of fun places to visit...
This is nothing like finding a human footprint in the Jurassic.
Preservation of specialized, bi-layer furone to keep them warm and dry, the other for protectionis the first of its kind in mammals. Beavers and otters, which also have this type of fur, didn't show up until about 55 million and 25 million years ago. Full-time aquatic mammals such as whales and manatees first appear during that period as well.
That definition would exclude most living things. Besides, colonies of bacteria are easy to se, even if the individulae can't be distinguished. Same with us and our cells.
You haven't a clue about the field you attempt to critique without knowing the first thing about it, but don't let that stop you.
Yup.
Baby steps, baby steps...
Yawn. Let another false creationist distortion. We haven't had one of those in about, oh, three or four full minutes at least.
Here, try to actually learn something for a change, unlike all the other ignorant anti-evolutionists:
Radiometeric Dating Does Work!Are Radioactive Dating Methods Consistent With Each Other?
Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective
Radiometric Dating and the Geological Time Scale: Circular Reasoning or Reliable Tools?
Breakthrough Made in Dating of the Geological Record
Formation of the Hawaiian Islands
How Old is the Earth: A Response to Scientific Creationism
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