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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Devolution/degeneration does not require evolution to be true. Second, if organisms are frontloaded to adapt to their environment, then the various races need not be the result of devolution/degeneration.
==There is a lot of evidence that Ethiopia is the cradle of mankind. What do you think?
I think the Evos have been preoccupied with Africa because Darwin and his successors treated black Africans like they were some sort of transitional link between the great apes and white Europeans.
No. Do you believe that Ethiopia is the cradle of man?
Do you believe, as many evolutionists do, that man originated in Ethiopia?
No, I do not. I believe man was created in the Garden of Eden.
Then if not Ethiopia, where?
Wherever the Garden of Eden was.
“I think that the Behemoth situation has been pretty well described historically, biblically and linguistically by other commenters.” No, no it hasn’t. The other commentators are not biblical scholars. Neither am I... I just try to use reason and the tools I have like most here.
If the scientific community is not trying to prop up a grant, they are generally bent on presenting evidence in the direction to support their foregone conclusions. You know as well as I do that from medicine to religion most people step onto the scene with predetermined opinions then make everything from the Bible to the Constitution support their personal beliefs instead of the other way around. The problem is weeding through that compulsion and looking at the real evidence. You believe or have been taught all your life that the evidence supports a certain thing and are not willing to look at other theories as a possibility. I’m not challenging your faith yet the internal reaction is exactly the same as if I had. I would encourage you to look at the opposing argument seriously and with an open mind. Do some studying of the evidence and not the suppositions of a couple of websites.
I appreciate your time and comment. Sorry if I was a bit coy. That’s a knee-jerk reaction and doesn’t generally move the conversation along.
“There is more evidence for the tooth fairy than there is for dinosaurs existing 6000 years ago.”
Thank you for that “scientific” observation. And yes, I do believe in the tooth fairy.
Devolution is the opposite of evolution. If evolution is not real, than what the hell is devolution???
They adapt to the environment by evolution or die out.
Nice way to dodge the question.
All you have a degree in is BS.
Adam and Eve were created perfect, they did not evolve. However, after they rebelled against God, God removed His sustaining power, and thus the human race began to degenerate. Now that I think about it, perhaps degenerate is the better word, because it doesn’t conjure up the image of having first been built up by random mutations plus natural selection.
You mean, anywhere BUT Ethiopia?
It saddens me to see how many people think that scientists are only interested in getting grant money. Some of the greatest early work was done by people who were driven by fascination and curiosity in spite of great personal cost. Simon Winchestor’s book “The Map that Changed the World” demonstrates this with great clarity. In the late 1700’s, William Smith, a canal surveyor, became intrigued by the changing earth/rock layers he saw as he surveyed canal routes. He began to recognize identical layers in different areas with identical fossil remains. Eventually after many years of study and mapping, he developed and published in 1815 a geological map of all of Great Britain. It has been changed only slightly in modern times. Producing the map destroyed him financially, he ended up in debtors prison, and lost his home. The following two links tell his story and the story of English geology. Winchester’s book was a fascinating read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(geologist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_United_Kingdom
There were no foregone conclusions when he studied and published. I strongly encourage you to look at this unprejudiced man’s life work. If you look at the second link, near the bottom of the article is a cross section of the underlying rock formations of England. It was this gradual change of layers that piqued his curiosity. I had the same feeling as I traveled the interstate across Kentucky where you can see layer after layer of rocks gradually being covered by new layers. If you figure each inch of rock equals 100 years, it soon becomes apparent what an amazingly long time it took for all these layers to be deposited. My time suggestion is just a guess, but you get the idea. Charles Darwin and others were influenced by this man’s pioneering work, which made it hard not to recognize the great age of the earth.
Another fascinating book is “When Life Nearly Died: the Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time”, by Michael J. Benton. This book goes into considerable detail regarding the scientific arguments in the early 1800’s and the discoveries that led to conclusions generally accepted today by most scientists.
A third book I recommend is “Engless Forms Most Beautiful” by Sean B. Carroll. This book covers the recent findings in genetics and developmental biology. Some of the conclusions are mind boggling.
I have spent considerable time reading the bible and attempting to understand how the writers were seeing and trying to describe their world. I challenge you to read at least one of these books and get back to me afterward. God is not diminished by the complexities scientists have discovered in our world. The people who try to simplify the world into a magic 7 day creation that has only existed for 6,000 words are the one’s who diminish this great and complex creation we live in.
My bad, I meant to type “Endless Forms Most Beautiful.”
There is no telling where the Garden of Eden was because the world was completely blasted by Noah’s Flood. If you want to trace humans back to their post flood stepping off point, then we should be looking in the area the Bible describes as the mountains of Ararat (plural=range, not Mt. Ararat, as is commonly believed), probably located somewhere between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
My bad again. I meant to say 6,000 years not words. Pulled an all-nighter to get the taxes done and have been sick for almost two weeks. Obviously not better.
hmm...
Then it could have been Ethiopia.
Is that is the bible or did you make it up?
After we sinned in the Garden of Eden, we immediately began to degenerate and die. Plus, our life expectancy steadily decreased from Adam (who died at just under 1,000 years old), all the way down to 120 years (which God capped as the maximum age...whether that is an absolute or an average, I do not know).
Is that according to the bible or according to GGGs?
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