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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The Pearl of Great Price received wide use and subsequently became a standard work of the Church by action of the First Presidency and the general conference in Salt Lake City on October 10, 1880.
Several revisions have been made in the contents as the needs of the Church have required. In 1878 portions of the book of Moses not contained in the first edition were added. In 1902 certain parts of the Pearl of Great Price that duplicated material also published in the Doctrine and Covenants were omitted. Arrangement into chapters and verses, with footnotes, was done in 1902. The first publication in double-column pages, with index, was in 1921. No other changes were made until April 1976, when two items of revelation were added. In 1979 these two items were removed from the Pearl of Great Price and placed in the Doctrine and Covenants, where they now appear as sections 137 and 138.
In the present edition some changes have been made to bring the text into conformity with earlier documents. (One would think that having a Living Prophet® running your church; all these things would have been right from the get go.)
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Most of all you didnt respond to my ascertion that God lived before he created the Word in the Beginning ...
AWWWwww
Are you not getting YOUR questions answered? Remember what Professor Millet has taught...
If you sell that house; on the one way street you're currently living on; you might find the neighborhood more to your liking.
Did you miss the part that said; "And the WORD was GOD."?
It's in your quad.
The first part.
Evidently the most important part; too.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/john/1?lang=eng
It would have been interesting if the teppe had acknowledged the notion that using an ovum from a woman betrothed (that means already in marriage vows) would defraud the man to whom she is betrothed. The god of Mormonism is as duplicitous as the lost souls in that cult, apparently.
"Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest."There are fields that are stony, where nothing will take root, nor grow and lay fallow for a reason.- Jesus
Yet, there are other fields that are white and are ready for fruitful harvest.
And we have posted the truth about the cult of mormonism for any readers.
There is a lot of that here, people are willing to listen to the truth. Once you spend many days, trying to tell the truth to a Mormon, only the Holy Spirit can can convict him.
Maybe teppe and fproy2222 would like the above; too.
Kind friends as here I stand to sing
So very queer I feel
That now I’ve made my bow I fear
I don’t look quite genteel
But never mind for I’m a boy
Who’s always full of joy
A rough and ready sort of chap
An honest Mormon Boy!
A Mormon Boy, A Mormon Boy
I am a Mormon Boy
I might be envied by a king
For I am a Mormon Boy!
A slow Friday though. Pun intended
What? You don’t like the original version? LOL
No doubt there are alternate words to a lot of songs that we Gentiles never get to hear.
Some more safe for work than othrs ;^)
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