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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It really is a crazy world... and apparently, they cannot think.
I know there are some Mormons who are leaving Mormonism, and that is great. I do not know any personally, though I have met more ex Muslims than ex Mormons. Mormons are a tough nut to crack. I generally dont deal with them much. Now, check your freep mail, about why I think Mormonism isnt very popular here. 😁
Show the world the original language source that JS got curelom from.
It would be a first!
One would think a useful animal like a cumom would have had ancestors back in the archeological table SOMEWHERE?!?
But, back to the context of the thread. I think the reason there are all kinds stuff, all over the world, is because the entire earth was tropical, before the Flood, and that the Flood was the WORST catastrophe that has ever hit the world. The whole earth, is no longer tropical.
I think you are right.
Global warming is bull.
The early church (which JS restored) worshipped the Son.
Matthew 14:33
Then the men in the boat began to worship Jesus, saying, "You certainly are the Son of God!"
I never heard of these so called Mormon animals, but if Joe Smith mentioned them, then I automatically dont believe a word of it. I guess many Mormons dont believe what ole horn dog Joe said either. They appear to each have their little set of doctrines, and they harp on them constantly. The Apostle Paul was pretty hard on those who brought false religions.
It would be a first!
Or Quakers on the moon
Or vast cities and metalworks
Or bones from the millions who lived in the cities
Or the gold Smith said was buried, because he could see it in his seer stone... but they never found.
Joe’horndog’Smith is probably the reatest con man ever in human History ... and he keeps conning folks from his grave!
If only he could warn his followers about how wrong he was...
But they wouldnt listen
Ole horn dog Joe, is too busy dealing with the fires of Hades to worry about how wrong he was. He is probably wondering, how in the heck he is going to endure the lake of fire forever. I figure all those in Hell, are probably wondering the same thing. False religionists are going to get a HEALTHY dose of fire and brimstone.
Wow ... you certainly have a lot of hate. Interesting. Your voice also sounds like the tinkling of brass.
I believe that God the Father uses natural means more like an ‘Engineer’ than the ‘Magician’ you guys imagine.
Lets look at the facts. Mary conceived. She had a fetus that appears to have complied with the normal gestation period, I assume 9 months .... since Mary & Joseph knew that the trip to Bethlehem was when she was due.
Do you actually believe that the fetus in Mary’s womb grew from cells dividing without a DNA sequence???
Do you actually think that the egg that Mary conceived of Christ from was not her own??? Where does it say that in the Bible???
Obviously Christ received half of his DNA from Almighty God, which is why St.Paul describes Christ as having the ‘Express Image of his person (Hebrews 1:3)
Christ’s physical appearance was that of a normal human being. His body grew just like yours and mine from a fetus to a baby to a child to a man. He aged similarly to other human beings.
And .... you think that Christ’s cells multiplied and grew without DNA?????
Can you be that moronically ignorant?
D&C 49:18-19 18 And whoso forbiddeth to abstain from meats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God; |
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D&C 89:12-13
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Guys; when you get tired of the bitter cold down there; perhaps you could tackle a certain little mound in New York.
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Can you be that moronically ignorant?
Known Egyptian wrinting | Known Hebrew writing |
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Wow ... you certainly have a lot of hate.
Yes we hate evil.
Not much is more evil than leading people astray from the Gospel of Grace and from the real Christ.
It’s no WONDER that Utah leads in Prozac usage!
That says a lot about those smiling Mormons.
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