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.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
“ ‘Inhabitants of the Moon are more of a uniform size than the inhabitants of the Earth, being about 6 feet in height. They dress very much like the Quaker Style & are quite general in Style, or the one fashion of dress. They live to be very old; comeing [sic] generally, near a thousand years.' This is the description of them as given by Joseph the Seer, and he could ‘See' whatever he asked the Father in the name of Jesus to see.”- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., in Journal of O.B. Huntington, Book 14, p. 166
Have you proven yet whether there are "inhabitants on the Sun?"
“Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?... When you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the ignorant of their fellows. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain.”- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 13, p. 271
teppe, where your two prophets correct about these things??
These two men are the foundation of mormonism.
Were they nuts?
Or is this in your opinion true??
Can you give me just a minute on that one?
I have to run it into...wait, I mean run it by my wives.
😂
Wise man he, stick to consensus when dealing with woment.
Duh ... I was talking about our discussion, that we should stick to the bible.
No wonder why you never defend your religion .... your not very good at it.
And you can eat your 6’ bowl of quaker oats on the moon by yourself.
MGHinTN says that Jesus only DNA from God the Father.
I see several problems with this interpretation.
1st Problem. Gabriel specifically told Mary that she would have a Son. This would imply that Mary contributed to this process ... and that she would not merely be a surrogate.
2nd Problem. All of the other times that conception is mentioned in the Bible, the Mother supplied the egg. For example, I’m pretty sure that when God told Eve ‘I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and conception’ that Eve biologically provided the egg.
3rd Problem. It was prophesied that Christ would be an Israelite through the tribe of Judah. If Christ had no Isrealite/Jewish genetic material this prophesy would be false.
4th Problem. St.Luke provides Mary’s genetical lineage to King David to fullfill Old Testament Prophecies. If Christ had no genetical link to David ... that would leave the prophesies unfullfilled.
5th Problem. God is immortal .... if Jesus had the complete DNA of God the Father, he could never have experienced death. Christ’s DNA was not changed to immortal until after the resurrection.
6th Problem. St.Paul’s description (1Cor 15:21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. Would be totally false since Christ would have no relationship to mankind.
Summary: I’m pretty sure that your twisting biblical evidence to fit your per-conceived “Homoousios” requirement which a non-baptized Emperor Constantine dictated/coerced in the Nicene Creed. Which along with the Apostolic and particularly the Athanasian Creed is the basis for the ‘Doctrine of the Trinity’.
If it weren’t for your necessity to conform the Bible to the Creeds .... you likely wouldn’t reject the plainness of the Bible.
St.Paul understood this when he wrote:
“And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2Tim 4:4)
So you believe Joseph Smith lied, huh?
Thats what I think too.
He got started lying and couldnt stop...
And here you are trapped in mormonism.
The Bible says Mary would conceive and bear a son. A surrogate bears the child who implants in the womb. So assuming got you nowhere, again.
Yes, I claim the DNA that built the physical body of Jesus was from God, but I have not and will not claim God The Father Almighty has DNA from God or that God would have DNA. The Word of God says flatly that God IS SPIRIT and must be worshipped in Spirit and truth. Are you claiming spirits have DNA? Where would you get that one??? You have to assume it in order to support your desired outcome, so you failed again, citing as axiomatic that which you are trying to prove for your moronic cult.
You and I do not know where GOD brought the essentails to make Jesus a Jewish human with the Life of God in His SPIRIT>. Your cult's problem is Where did the soul and spirit of Jesus originate. The Word of God tells you His Spirit was always with God AND WAS GOD IN THE VERY BEGINNING. You just will not accept that Jesus is not a created being.
Are you aware that the geneology of Jesus as a Jew is listed through Joseph, not just Mary? You can assert lots of things, but you have yet to show where the Bible explains where the chromosomes of Jesus came from to form the embryo. With access to all of time and space, it is just as reasonable that the embryonic Jesus came from Bathsheba or Ruth or Rahab. You are getting nowhere, even as you number a list of assertions without evidence.
From your cult's list (3&4) you have not shown where the chromosomes came from just that Jesus had Israeli blood so the prophecies were fulfilled. You have made assumptions to fit the thing which your are seeking to prove.
DNA is an information code. Show me proof that God the Father Almighty has DNA. You canno, so this is yet another effort to assert as proof that which you are trying to prove, namely that God was once a man who had DNA. You're so far batting 0.
In typical cultic mind meanderings, you have projected upon me the very errors your cult has taught to you. You cannot have God being doubled minded, yet that is precisely what your sexual predator founder displayed through the time he 'directed' the duped Mormons He is ushering into Hell, tou included. Not one of the items on your little list is accurate because you and I do not know from where God brought the DNA to form the Body of Jesus. Your cult founder assumed God copulated with Mary. You don't like that fact exposed, so you have an elaborate mental exercise aimed at proving God used an ovum from Mary. There is absolutely no proof of that in the Bible.
Such assumptions that your cult is founded upon might have made sense to folks not actually familiar with what can be done in embryology, but that assumption is not based in proof from The Word of God. Continue to reject truth and your heart will become so hardened to the truth that you will be a lost soul and spirit.
Thank the Lord, I will never be trapped in the false, evil cult of Mormonism. 😁 By the way, do you suppose the quakers on the moon, were hiding from the astronauts, when they landed? They never went and introduced themselves to the astronauts. Maybe they only spoke moon, and not English. 🤪 I wonder if Joe Smith ever told the quakers on the moon, that there were people living on earth? 😆
This is easy for mormons.
They believe "heavenly father" came down and had physical sex with Mary to impregnate her.
The mormon god has sex you know...Joseph Smith ...
"Whenever did a tree or anything spring into existence without a progenitor?" Teachings of the Prophet JS Section 6 1843-1844:373:1
Brigham Young ...
"[God] created man, as we create our children; for there is no other process of creation in heaven, on the earth, in the earth, or under the earth, or in all the eternities, that is, that were, or that ever will be." Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 11:122
The more you know about mormon beliefs, the weirder it gets...
teppe, do you believe the mormonic heavenly father had a physical, sexual relationship with Mary?
teppe, do you believe the mormonic heavenly father has celestial sex with heavenly mother to produce spirit children, including the mormonic jesus??
One mormonic apologist has you covered bro (listen to the rationalization!)
Steven Gibson, in a mormon rationalization book wrote..."Another aspect of the matter needs to be considered. At the present time, man has no scientific or revealed knowledge of whether or not there are inhabitants on the earth's moon. The fact that a handful of astronauts didn't see any inhabitants in the tiny area they viewed when they landed on the moon decades ago certainly gives no definitive information, any more than visitors to earth who might land in barren Death Valley would have any idea of the billions of inhabitants elsewhere."
I suspect most are very embarrassed by the statements of Joe Smith, Horndog Prophet.
Even above, you can see teppe rationalized it away.
But clearly, Joe said he could see them as a seer. He said they were on the moon. That they were all about 6 feet tall. That they dressed like Quakers.
And the next Horndog Prophet, Bring 'em Young, stated there are inhabitants on the sun!
It is the wackiest cult.
Not to be believed by anyone who wants to have eternal life with God.
Howdy; Ma'am...
You mean like THIS guy??
Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877
teppe; address the FACT that you do not even TRY to defend your belief.
All you do is, "The Prophet says such-and-such." and just let it lie there.
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