Posted on 07/20/2007 12:30:45 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
UC Berkeley scientists, digging deep into a remote New Mexico hillside, have discovered a trove of fossil bones that they say is evidence that dinosaurs and their early relatives lived side by side for tens of millions of years before the relatives slowly died off and left the dinosaurs to dominate the ancient world.
Until now many scientists had thought that dinosaur "precursors" -- perhaps their ancestors -- disappeared suddenly long before the dinosaurs themselves rose to prominence, but the bones dug up by Berkeley paleontologists show evidence of a different story.
The discovery of a wide variety of creatures all mingled together in layer upon layer of rocks dating from Earth's late Triassic period between 235 million and 200 million years ago, they say, shows that the strange relatives of the dinosaurs remained on the scene while the dinosaurs evolved into truly dominant creatures during the Jurassic period, between 120 million and 200 million years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Just what we need, a Hillary!™ that won't ever die...
When all the smaller “relatives” died off (I wonder why) what then, did the big guys eat; Garbanzo beans?
Forage.
Overturned rolloff from KFC.
Breeding out or up, I wonder?
God gave us serious minds to understand a serious and complex universe. Nothing “came from earth” and made craters on the moon.
Wait until you get an AHAYCP.
Although I like these evolution arguments purely for entertainment value,
As far a science is concerned, I can shrug my shoulders and say we are only discovering what God already made, and leave it at that.
We are unlocking the mysteries of our biological nature and are at a point now where we can manipulate it, perhaps to our own undoing if we don't proceed with extreme caution.
The potential to unlock a biological disaster is very real. We've already seen the potential danger of how a mutation can cross the species barrier and have the potential to wipe out all those susceptible to that DNA sequence (prionic diseases).
We have to be careful.
And very wise.
And very, very lucky.
And you have proof, right? Thought NOT.
There is plenty of reason to suspect bits of the earth's crust were blasted out of earths atmosphere and formed comets and debri and either collided with other bodies in this system or returned home to rest.
Shot at 2007-07-20
Parts of the Earth were influx at the instant of creation when it formed, but what about now? What of asteroids.
Of course all this is irrelevant, here you go, observed Leonid Meteors hit the Moon in 1999:
http://www.space-frontier.org/Projects/Moon/lunarscience.html
Why is it that some Christians are afraid of science, so much so that the make some mighty big leaps in trying to explain things that need no explanation other than what was observed or studied. Nothing in observed science contradicts anything in the Bible.
The majesty of God’s creation is revealed more and more every day by our science. It is much more than some 6000 year old place with painted stars full of tricks to make us think it is much older. If he wanted simple he would have skipped free will and making us anything but automatons under his power.
The more we understand the depth and scope of the intricate mechanisms and physical wonders that abound around us, how truly awe inspiring and absolutely powerful God becomes to his belivers. That is a God I want to worship, not some Houdini playing tricks to make us look foolish and small.
One last thing, you tone in these messages is a bit over the top to be honest so I question your true positions and motives.
A global flood ca. 4350 years ago has not been found by archaeologists or sedimentologists.
Who is They?
It’s only ZERO proof if you ignore all the libraries full of information that doesn’t agree with your personal views...
I don’t suppose these geniuses consided a major tectonic event cause different strata to be jumbled together.
What is that supposed to be?
A quaint idea. But wrong. My conservative Catholic family of seven is taught the truth, Evolution happens.
And yet another fairy tale.
So adam wasn't the first man?
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