Posted on 08/13/2003 9:02:05 PM PDT by nwrep
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By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Associated Press Writer
BOMBAY, India - U.S. and Indian scientists said Wednesday they have discovered a new carnivorous dinosaur species in India after finding bones in the western part of the country.
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The new dinosaur species was named Rajasaurus narmadensis, or "Regal reptile from the Narmada," after the Narmada River region where the bones were found.
The dinosaurs were between 25-30 feet long, had a horn above their skulls, were relatively heavy and walked on two legs, scientists said. They preyed on long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs on the Indian subcontinent during the Cretaceous Period at the end of the dinosaur age, 65 million years ago.
"It's fabulous to be able to see this dinosaur which lived as the age of dinosaurs came to a close," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. "It was a significant predator that was related to species on continental Africa, Madagascar and South America."
Working with Indian scientists, Sereno and paleontologist Jeff Wilson of the University of Michigan reconstructed the dinosaur skull in a project funded partly by the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society.
A model of the assembled skull was presented Wednesday by the American scientists to their counterparts from Punjab University in northern India and the Geological Survey of India during a Bombay news conference.
Scientists said they hope the discovery will help explain the extinction of the dinosaurs and the shifting of the continents how India separated from Africa, Madagascar, Australia and Antarctica and collided with Asia.
The dinosaur bones were discovered during the past 18 years by Indian scientists Suresh Srivastava of the Geological Survey of India and Ashok Sahni, a paleontologist at Punjab University.
When the bones were examined, "we realized we had a partial skeleton of an undiscovered species," Sereno said.
The scientists said they believe the Rajasaurus roamed the Southern Hemisphere land masses of present-day Madagascar, Africa and South America.
"People don't realize dinosaurs are the only large-bodied animal that lived, evolved and died at a time when all continents were united," Sereno said.
The cause of the dinosaurs' extinction is still debated by scientists. The Rajasaurus discovery may provide crucial clues, Sereno said.
India has seen quite a few paleontological discoveries recently.
In 1997, villagers discovered about 300 fossilized dinosaur eggs in Pisdura, 440 miles northeast of Bombay, that Indian scientists said were laid by four-legged, long-necked vegetarian creatures.
Indian scientists said the dinosaur embryos in the eggs may have suffocated during volcanic eruptions.
No, all three included evolutionist whackos who paraded under the banner of religiosity. Today, all three countries have a very low percentage of bible-believing Christians in their borders. In fact, a little research into the countries reveals their declining religiosity
Unattributed waffle removed. Here's a real citation.
Percent of population attneding church weekly; Sweden 4 Finland 4 Denmark 5 Norway 5 Germany 14 Spain 25 Italy 45Clearly the Scandinavian countries have a far lower level of church attendance than the hitherto fascist Germany, italy and Spain. The claim that religion and democracy are positively correlated is simply unfounded.
Because you're looking at the wrong paragraphs:
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."-- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", Vol. I Chap. II.
While you were getting your 106 percent (presumably not in math) did you by any chance study propaganda techniques? Read the sentence I just quoted and tell me what its intent is.
I'm looking for some authenticating source to help ascertain the significance of a quote from the 1 Enoch book of astronomy which was found at Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls.)
The fragment 4Q208 has a paleographic age of 200 B.C. and was carbon-dated, calibrated 166-102 BC and 186-92 BC. Radiocarbon dating of scrolls
The verse in question reads:
But Right Wing Professor proposed it might be a description of a shooting star.
Links provided by RWP and PH have shown that the ancients saw meteor showers as omens or predictors of weather: for instance.
RadioAstronomer has promised to do some checking tonight.
The question is, if 1 Enoch is a fabrication, where did an ancient before 200 B.C. (the DSS texts are copies) get the idea that a shooting star was a star dying?
More background: the book of Enoch is quoted in Jude and a hundred passages in the New Testament are rooted in its phrasing. The Essenes of Qumran were anti-Hellenistic though they would have been under the Greek influence before heading to the wilderness. Before that the Jews had been in exile in Babylonia. The language of 1 Enoch at Qumran is Aramaic though the scholars believe the original from which the copies were made may have been both Aramaic and Hebrew, like the book of Daniel
Define hot.
--[Gerry, who lives in the "Heart of Dixie" wherein temperatures approach the triple digits with 100 percent humidity -- used to keep the yankees away, but then they went and invented air conditioning]
Are you arguing that no one in the history of the world except fundamentalist Christians ever loved their children?
Actually, Hitler was a creationist:
For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.Source: Book 2, Chapter 10, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
-- Adolph Hitler, noted creationist
In what sense did Hitler "use" Roman Catholicism?
Almost certainly not from their religion, which was nominally Lutheran. Luther, if you'll remember, sided with the German princes against the peasants.
Quoting the great man himself.
First they have sworn to their true and gracious rulers to be submissive and obedient, in accord with God's command (Matt. xxii. 21), "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's," and (Rom. xiii. 1), "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers." But since they have deliberately an sacrilegiously abandoned their obedience, and in addition have dared to oppose their lords, they have thereby forfeited body an soul, as perfidious, perjured, lying, disobedient wretches and scoundrels are wont to do. Wherefore St. Paul judges them, saying (Rom. xiii. 2.), "And they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." The peasants will incur this sentence, sooner or later; for God wills that fidelity and allegiance shall be sacredly kept.
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