Posted on 04/01/2020 9:48:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Some 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew near the South Pole. Scientists recovered fossil traces of the ancient rainforest from seafloor sediment cores collected near West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.
Seismic data suggested the sediment layer was unique, but researchers weren't expecting to find the remnants of a Cretaceous forest.
"The finding of this well preserved 'forest soil' layer was actually a lucky dip," researcher Ulrich Salzmann, professor of palaeoecology at the University of Northumbria in Britain, told UPI. "We did not know of the existence of this layer before."
Among the sediment layers, Salzmann and his research partners found roots, pollen, spores and the remains of flowering plants. Scientists were able to use the various plant remains to piece together a fuller picture of what exactly Antarctica's ancient forest looked like.
"This was a swampy forest, dominated by needle-leaved conifer trees with many ferns. The forest was a temperate -- not a tropical -- rainforest, similar to the forests found today in New Zealand," Salzmann said. "Summer temperatures averaged 19 degrees Celsius and water temperatures in rivers and swamps reached up to 20 degrees. This was despite a four-month polar night, meaning for a third of every year there was no life-giving sunlight at all."
Scientists estimate the polar rainforest persisted until the Oligocene epoch, before fragmenting some 20 million years ago. Pockets of rainforest likely remained viable until 10 million years ago.
Antarctica and the South Pole has moved a bit over the last 90 million years, but tectonic shifts don't account for the emergence and disappearance of the ancient Antarctic forest. The polar forest was made possible by climate change.
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I agree AMPU, there really isnt much sense in talking to Mormons about the truth. They have been warned. They dont seek the truth. Leave them to their own devices. I have more important things to do. By the way, I dont do creeds. Creeds are not inspired.
Saul! Triune-DUDE! .... Do I need to say this once again???
There is only one God whom all, including Jesus Christ, will worship and obey, and that is ‘Almighty God the Eternal Father’.
Your just making noise. That’s all you do.
Your what St.Paul called ‘the Tinkling of Brass’.
I however, worship Almighty God, the Father who is completely Triune-Free!
Mormons worship Adam.
Im surprised you dont believe Ol horndog smith... he said it very cleary.
Dont you believe your Mormon prophet smith?
How many Mormon gods are there teppe??
Counting all planets in all universes, including Kolob??
“Creeds are not inspired” ....and yet the ‘Doctrine of the Trinity” was established by uninspired Creeds .... Defined by uninspired Creeds ....and ONLY Exists because of uninspired Creeds!!!
YOUR WHOLE TRINITARIAN CHRISTOLOGY IS ENMESHED/INSEPERABLE IN ‘UNINSPIRED’ CREEDS .....
.....and you claim that you are a gospel truth seeker? What a Hypocrite!!!
.... You reject the Creeds as ‘Uninspired’ .... but you EMBRACE the teachings of those same uninspired Creeds!!!
TOTAL HYPOCRISY!
You are NOT a seeker of truth .... You are a seeker of Fables (2Timothy 4:4)
Just like Jesus Christ,my savior and redeemer, I worship Almighty God the Father (100% Triune-Free!)
Did you pick up a discounted price on exclamation marks and capital letters...?
there really isnt much sense in talking to Mormons about the truth.
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Especially those Mormons who are hardened to truth and given to histrionics.
Did you red the quotes from Joseph Smith that revealed how perverted the nature of God?
Triune-Dude: I knew you would ignore the question..... you can only destroy peoples faith .... your totally incapable of defending your own. What a hypocrite!
I ask again:Heres a question for you (I know you hate/cant defending your own religion)...
... if Jesus Christ is the Only Begotten Son of God ....
.... and Mary through Virgin Birth donated 23 chromosomes ....
.... were Christs other 23 chromosomes from God the Eternal Father???
OK ... if you know so much about ‘truth’
.... Did God exist before the ‘beginning’?
It’s obvious in St.Mark, that the ‘Beginning’ refers to Christs creation as the ‘Word’.
Did God exist before the ‘Beginning’?
Your so ignorant about the ‘truth’ that you don’t even realize that the ‘Doctrine of the Trinity’ is one and the same as what you called the ‘uninspired creeds’.
In your own words, your Christology grew from uninspired creeds.
What do you know of truth? St.Paul had prophesied about your Christology coming from, as you say ‘uninspired creeds’
2 Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
God is eternal and unchangeable, as noted above in the verses I posted.
But your prophet Joe Smith claims God was a man who became a god.
Here's that quote again...
Here’s a quote from Joseph Smith: "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make himself visible—I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with Him, as one man talks and communes with another…."I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see…that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did….
Absolutely non-Biblical and a perversion of the nature of the real God.
Do you believe your prophet Joseph Smith's view of God?
Or was he wrong?
And you never answered my question about how many mormon gods exist on all planets, including Kolob??
Bro, get a grip. I dont care what Mormons think about anything. I generally dont witness much to Mormons. Its against my religion. Go worship Adam or something. I dont care what you do.
As a ‘devout mormon’ you don’t even see thye contradiction in your own assertion! Sad that ...
Your cult is a tragic broad road to hell.
teppe’s cult asserts men can become Gods. [Lorenzo Snow’s little blasphemous couplet, anyone?)
I briefly skimmed it. I have seen all this hogwash before. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought all Mormons believed everything Joe Smith wrote. Maybe they dont.
Mormonism is pretty unpopular here. I think I know why, but I will tell you in Freep mail. Sometimes Mormons show up at my door. No doubt they are some of the nicest people around. Their religion, however, is poisonous. I always tell them, ok, I believe in the Trinity, and under NO circumstances, will I accept ANYTHING but the Bible, and I dont want to hear about it being correctly translated. Do you still want to discuss the Word of God? They usually dont want to do that. 😁 Oh well, that is their problem. Forgive me if I seem somewhat disdainful of false Mormon doctrine, Paul said, of those pushing false religions, let them be accursed. This is another gospel, spawned by the devil himself. 👎
That ould be ‘sounding brass and tinkling cymbal, ignorant moron.
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
Talking with a mormon and getting them to admit what their cult teaches, is like nailing jello to the wall.
They will stand up in their meetings and claim Joseph Smith was a prophet, but then when you ask them about what he actually said, or did (he was a scammer and horndog), they either pretend it isn't important, or deny the plain words.
You are right though, it is total hogwash!
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