Posted on 04/14/2009 8:36:29 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Dinosaur herd buried in Noah’s Flood in Inner Mongolia, China
by Tas Walker Published: 14 April 2009
An international team of scientists have uncovered graphic evidence of the deadly terror unleashed on a herd of dinosaurs as they were buried under sediment by the rising waters of Noah’s Flood in western Inner Mongolia (figure 1).[1]
Dinosaur bones were first discovered at the site, located at the base of a small hill in the Gobi Desert, in 1978 by a Chinese geologist. After about 20 years, a team of Chinese and Japanese scientists recovered the first skeletons, which they named Sinornithomimus, meaning “Chinese bird mimic”.
A few years later in 2001, the international team excavated the remains of more than 25 dinosaurs, creating a large quarry in the process as they as they followed the skeletons into the base of the hill. Remarkable excavation
As the team carefully mapped the location of the bones and strata that contained them (figure 2), it became clear that the dinosaurs were all within the same layer of mudstone (i.e. the same bedding plane), generally facing the same direction and remarkably well preserved.[2]...
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You find dino fossils all over the world, including the Middle East. Places long inhabited by mammals, birds, etc. Yet you never see mammal and dino fossils in the same layer.
He and other Creationists use “evo” as a buzz word to mean “something I disagree with”. Thus geologists who figured out the Earth was very old, long before Darwin ever published are somehow “evo” geologists. Physicists who study radioisotopic decay are “evo” physicists. Lawyers or judges who make rulings that Creationists don't like are “evo” lawyers. Astronomers who show the size and age of the universe are also, obviously, “evo” astronomers.
How easy life becomes when you can tack on a three letter word to the start of something, and then you NEVER have to think about it.
I don't see why. If all of Africa were flooded today with water moving the way Noah's flood was supposed to be moving, you'd certainly end up with human, monkey, elephant, and lion bones all mixed together.
And, of course, human bones have been found mixed with bones from lots of other kinds of animals--yet somehow, never dinosaurs.
The vast majority of geologists were Young Earth Creationists. The Evos have since taken over the field of geology, as they have in most other fields of science. What they do is sync-up all the disciplines to make them fit with Darwood’s materialist creation myth. For an example of this, read the following:
http://www.detectingdesign.com/radiometricdating.html#Circular%20Calibration%20Methods
Well put!
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(Dear Sisters, it appears we may have a kindred spirit in PugetSoundSoldier...)
Yes, I can agree that GGG is theologically stunted with a restricted understanding of the nature and promise of God.
I can tell you how to find it more or less... The largest selection of midrashim ever translated into western languages is Louis Ginzberg's seven-volume "Legends of the Jews", and that used to be a terribly exotic and hard-to-find item but major sections of it are online now. Creatures described which are clearly leftover dinosaurs would include the behemoth, the reem, the ziz bird, Og, the so-called "king of Bashan", and a couple of others here and there.
These were leftovers during the antediluvian age. The true main age of dinosaurs was likely several thousand or tens of thousands of years back, but clearly not millions of tens of millions. They're starting to find soft tissue in dinosaur bones now and the whole multi-million year thing is basically crumbling all around the evos heads.
I am beginning to understand. I am an evo hospice nurse because we use medicine as well as prayer.
Simple answer: He’s right and you’re wrong.
Then they went with their findings and the evidence and became Old Earthers!
So it appears, TXnMA! Certainly I agree with his statement.
We never find dino and modern mammal fossils in the same geologic layer. Not just not "together", but "not in the same geologic LAYER" anywhere.
Read your history. (or is that evo-history?)
Charles Lyell, born in Scotland in 1797, began his career as a lawyer, but later changed to geology. His background in zoology and the physical sciences allowed his research to cover more of a scientific scope. He believed that creation of the earth was not based on the interpretation of Genesis, but on the basis of scientific explanations. He sought a scientific knowledge of the formation of the mountains. Lyell, pictured here in this photograph taken in 1855, was also a Darwinist, and wrote of his observations in The Geological Evidence for the Antiquity of Man in 1863. Later, when he visited the Alps, he saw recognizable similarities in rocks of the Alps and Appenines. Both were made up of tertiary, uplifting rock strata. Through his experiments on these two mountain ranges, he was able to identify the positions of the earliest seas and gulfs. He studied the glacial movements in mountains, like the Mere De Glace on Mont Blanc in the Alps, searching for a way to identify how exactly mountains were cut and formed. He also theorized a future "convulsion" that would make a new mountain range in Europe, east of the Alps. His greatest work was done on his Theory of Uniformism, based on his attempts to date the Alps: "Although we have not yet ascertained the number of different periods at which the Alps gained accessions to their height and width, we can affirm, that the last series of movements occurred when the seas were inhabited by many existing species of animals" (from Principles of Geology, 1863). Uniformism meant that all of the processes in which the physical world changed in the past are also changing the physical world presently. Lyell's theory was counter to many theories on catastrophism, which were based on the idea that the physical world was changed due to catastrophic events, like a flood, or an earthquake.
It all depends on the author’s intent. If the author (God) intended the statement to be literal, then we darn well better take it literally. If it was a metaphor, then it’s dumb to take it literally.
But I don’t think you or I are capable of deciding where a given passage falls along that spectrum. I mean, you can tell me that it isn’t the point whether Samson slew 100 or 10,000, but then there’d be a liberal theologian over there who will tell me that it isn’t the point whether there’s a real Satan or not. Or that it isn’t the point whether Christ actually rose or not.
You see? I share some of your concerns about the forest for the trees, but like you said, man is fallible, so I can’t trust myself or trust you to be always right about which passages to take literally and which not to.
I think we can, however, trust the Church *as a whole*—because even though it is made up of individually fallible men, Christ promised it infallibility as a whole: He said that the gates of Hell would never prevail against it, and that it was the pillar and ground of the truth.
So I see that the Church over 2000 years all over the world taught a literal resurrection of Christ. So I believe that literally. I see that the Church for 2000 years over the world taught the literal existence of Satan. So I believe that too. But the Church over 2000 years—even though it was adamant that the world was created in six literal days—was all over the map in terms of what kinds of days they were.
So why did God drown all his dinosaurs? Or was it just no room on the ark?
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