Detailed fossilized insect remains preserved in amber for over 23 million years (AFP/HO)
Posted on 08/09/2011 7:59:49 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Detailed fossilized insect remains preserved in amber for over 23 million years (AFP/HO)
Peru researchers make rare ancient insect find (AFP) – 3 hours ago LIMA — Researchers in Peru said Tuesday they have discovered the remains of ancient insects and sunflower seeds trapped inside amber dating from the Miocene epoch, some 23 million years ago. The rare find was made in the remote mountainous jungle region near Peru's northern border with Ecuador, paleontologist Klaus Honninger told AFP. "These new discoveries are very important, because the insects and sunflower seeds confirm the type of climate that existed during the Miocene period," Honninger said in a telephone interview from the northern city of Chiclayo. The paleontologists discovered "hundreds of pieces of amber up to 12 centimeters (five inches) large containing several types of insects," Honninger said. The insects trapped in the amber -- fossilized tree resin -- are extremely well preserved and include ancient beetles, barklice, flies and spiders.
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Thanks for enhancing the info on this thread.
How do I know that this article wasn’t written by the hand of the devil himself? (just kidding)
I do agree, however, with the statement in the article that it’s more important to agree on the rock of ages, than the age of rocks, still knowing that the rocks are inconceivably old.
Nice article. Thanks for posting.
I like it!
I swear I killed one of those after it somehow got into our house the other day. About the size of a wasp, and looking like a huge, black ant? Yep. I killed one. Probably the last living relative, too.
You have an internet connection, web browser and a favorite search engine, right? Think of man’s best friend.
Well, perhaps we could get Mammoth DNA instead. :-)
“3. one of the sons of Shem mentioned in Luke, is not in Genesis (possible gap in geneology)”
In the thinking of Old Testament times, to “begat” someone simply meant to be their ancestor. So, I great-great grandfather could be said to have “begat” me without it being in error at all. It does not diminish the infallibility of scripture to say that gaps (by our reasoning) in geneologies exist.
I am curious....do you hold to a world wide flood...Noah’s Flood? It explains a great many things seen in geology.
Personally, I think that is the weakest of the arguments I posed, and when I came across it in my notes, I was surprised I didn’t call my professor on it. I’m going to ask him why this would be considered a gap, when him and both siblings cover that gap. It is true that not all geneologies are in Scripture; only those that God needed to include. But that is a good point you bring as far as the use of “begat”. I’d have to study it.
Yes, I absolutely believe in a world-wide flood. God made that clear. :-)
It was my pleasure. :’)
That makes me think of the Voight-Kampf test scene in “Blade Runner”, may have to watch that again, first time in a long time. First time ever on Blu-Ray.
All I know fer sure is the more things change, the more they stay the same...
You don't deserve an extra measure of deference because you say you're extra pious. The idea of a young earth is so laughable, so patently contrary to the overwhelming body of evidence, that the vast majority of Christian leaders have rejected it for the better part of 200 years. If you choose to ignore all that evidence in spite of yourself, then yes, you deserve to be made out to be fools.
I’m on my way over there now. We can watch it together. I’ll bring the wok and Chinese fixin’s.
And you shall continue to be ignorant. Then we have angreement.
I don’t want or need any amount of deference from you or anyone else. It is obvious that you have a disdain for Christians, and it really doesn’t bother me and I’m not claiming victem or anything like that. I wish you well, and I wish that you learn to respect those of us who do not have faith in men and our puny amount of knowledge.
Hardy-Har-not-har. That is what the entire book of Ecclesiastes is all about. Read it, I think you would enjoy it.
Interesting that when science was attempting to discover if or not the world was flat the Bible records....”He sits on the ‘CIRCLE’ of the world.” ...Funny...it was there all the time.
You ever read The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus The Christ? One of my faves.
Read every religious text from every religion you can find.
Then make up your OWN mind.
Fighting over religion has slaughtered hundreds of millions if not billions over the years. And after the islamites are completely destroyed, enough is enough.
You should see a doc about that splinter in your butt. It’s starting to fester.
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