Posted on 07/02/2009 8:42:43 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The 1994 discovery of the Wollemi pine growing in a remote gorge in New South Wales, Australia, caused a sensation, because it had previously only been known from fossils said to be millions of years old (as we have previously reported—see, e.g., Sensational Australian tree … like “finding a live dinosaur”).
While keeping the exact location a secret, the authorities offered up a single licence to propagate the “living fossil” tree, which was won in 1998 by a government department of the neighbouring state of Queensland.
Expecting that people worldwide would jump at the chance to purchase their own “dinosaur tree” growing in their back yard, the Queensland Government predicted it would reap sales of up to $21 million dollars annually.
Indeed, they would have been justified in thinking that, given the hype from various quarters around the world. When internationally-renowned wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough planted the tree at Kew Gardens, London, his evolutionary “spin” on the event was prominently reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
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Thanks for the laugh! The linked article is silly even by creation.com’s standards (which is saying a lot).
The Metasequoia was thought to have been extinct for millions of years. After world war 2 there were about were some found growing in a remote area of china. There are some now in cities in the US. There were two in our city, till the one was cut down recently. It is a deciduous pine with small cones.
This articles’s basic premise seems to be that the since people didn’t rush out to buy this tree, that’s somehow a blow to the theory of evolution.
That is reaching, to say the least.
It is no wonder that when Jesus came, he walked among the common man, rather than kings and scholars. He knew that common man would believe and accept, where the scholars and leaders would reject him based on the "learning of man"
To God be the glory.
.....and why did not ONE dinosaur from the fossil record make it on the Ark?
Yet another article full of false conclusions and bogus claims...
First we would need proof it wasn't there, which means we would have to find the true Noah's Ark.
Other than that, specifying what was 'not' on the Ark is just open ended speculation.
That is reaching, to say the least.
‘I could see we were making big losses and I got us out of it’—Queensland Govt. Minister on the termination of the ‘dino tree’ project
Actually, the basic premise is exactly what the title says it is...alot of hoopla ends with a whimper. Along with dozens of other examples GGG has pointed out btw.
Whatever the financial failure of this project, it really has nothing to do with the science involved here. The article in question tried to make some lame point about how this showed that people didn't buy into evolution.
That is reaching, to say the least.
I think the phrase is "any port in a storm". Or maybe it's "grasping at straws".
Along this same line of thought, since popularity apparently now determines truth, the church with with most members is obviously the One True Faith.
Yay, Catholicism.
I'll expect to see everyone at Mass Sunday. We'll even spring for doughnuts and coffee after.
It has everything to do with the science. It’s fraudulent and it’s been exposed.
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