What of the dinosaurs?

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Timeline

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I have asked this before, but as far as I know I didn't get a real answer. If dinosaur fossils are from dinosaurs that lived here 60 million years ago, why can we find them, but can't locate as many of the "intermediary" fossils from all transition animals that are currently proposed by scientists. And, imo, the ones that they have found are either from diseased animals/people or the scientists just put them together incorrectly. Either way, there should be more intermediary fossils than dinosaur fossils...and they're not here (because they never existed).
 
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So you do believe these child-like clay models of dinosaurs are legitimate copies of the real McCoy witnessed by Incas or Aztecs? If you go to Acámbaro figures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia you will learn that these too, like the Ica stones, were made by local farmers a few decades ago.

Your intent was to locate a secular, not a religious source, that also was interested in the figurines, but all you turned up was a conspiracy theorist's haven. Did you notice they claimed to have found, among other things, a 500,000 year old spark plug? Yes, apparently highly technical civilizations once thrived on earth before modern humans fully evolved (please note that secularists don't pay any attention to nonsense like this). 4Enlightenment, you did not find a secular website. You found a conspiracy theorist fan site. Do you not recognize the difference?

I found the truth easily enough. Why didn't you? I think the explanation is you are not trying to uncover weaknesses in your understanding, you are trying to prop them up.
Attempts have been made to date the figures using thermoluminescence (TL) dating. The earliest results, from tests done when TL dating was in its infancy, suggested a date around 2500 BC.[SUP][5][/SUP] However, later tests contradicted these findings. In 1976, Gary W. Carriveau and Mark C. Han attempted to date twenty Acámbaro figures using TL dating. They found that the figures had been fired at temperatures between 450 °C and 650 °C, which contradicted claims that these figures had been fired at temperatures too low for them to be accurately dated. However, all of the samples failed the "plateau test", which indicated that dates obtained for the Acámbaro figures using standard high-temperature TL dating techniques were unreliable and lacked any chronological significance. Based on the degree of signal regeneration found in remeasured samples, they estimated that the figures tested had been fired approximately 30 years prior to 1969.[SUP][9]

[/SUP] Remember they had dated the figures 2500 BC and which that means that science is playing a guessing game. They did it with the shroud of Turin and so on, and which they has their own belief system of how old things are by comparing it with other things or methods that they believe of certain age. And so can science explain how the pyramid was built? How did those massive stones were laid on top of one another in perfect formation that you can't even slide a credit card between them? Right if someone has thrown their underwear in the laundry, they can come up with a theory that it has been in the laundry for decades by measuring the dirt and grime that was in the material itself.

The 5,300 Year Old Mesopotamian Diplodocus on an ancient cylinder seal.




This ancient cylinder seal, currently housed at the Louvre Museum portrays sauropod like creatures as well as giant “birds” or pterosaurs. The seal is from Mesopotamia, approximately 3300 B.C. (Moortgart, Anton, The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia, 1969, plate 292., presumably seen by the artist.

I would ask that the interested reader note the points of similarity between a close-up of the “sauropod” depiction created by rolling the cylinder with the skull of Diplodocus Longus. This is the basis for me to call this creature and the consistent comparisons below diplodocus depictions.







It may not be possible to readily identify the specific similarity of the Euhelopus sauropod depiction with that of the Tang Dynasty artifact. On the right we’ve placed the unedited drawing of the Euhelopus skull (except that we tinted it red) on top of the artifact for comparison. What do you think? Bird or sauropod?










These Neolithic Cultural Jades differ from the traditionally collected “burial jades” from the traditional archeological burial sites of Hongshan and Liangchu, discovered in the 1920s and 1930s.Source


Here it is shown in comparison to Yangchuanosaurus. “Yangchuanosaurus is an extinct genus of metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in China during the late Oxfordian (and possibly Kimmeridgian) stage of the Late Jurassic, and was similar in size and appearance to its North American contemporary, Allosaurus.
It hails from the Upper Shaximiao Formation and was the largest predator in a landscape which included the sauropods Mamenchisaurus and Omeisaurus as well as the Stegosaurs Chialingosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus and Chungkingosaurus”…Wikipedia
 
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Cycel said:
The Cambrian period ended 485 million years ago. Most of our fossils come from before 485 million years ago??? I believe this statement you led with is false.

I think you are trying to sound as if you know what you are talking about, but you are coming across garbled. Would you mind restating?
Wordswordsman said:
I see you apparently didn't read #378 over 12 hours ago which would have helped you make the right connection. A missed word here and there shouldn't upset you so if you kept up. I won't make the mistake of answering more bait and switch replies.
First, you addressed post #378 to Timeline, not to myself. I wasn’t aware that it was part of our conversation. Second, I did read part of this post but did not make a connection. Third, I represent my position honestly, I do not employ trickery. Just saying.
 

Timeline

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Surprise, surprise.

Do you believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God? If so, what Bible? The King James Version?
Jack, the problem I have with "science" is not the study of the natural world, but the bias of scientists that push that God cannot be the explanation for our existence. They are so busy trying to prove that God doesn't exist that they can't produce true science.

As far as the Bible goes, KJ is okay, but I do not read it. I read the NASB - and yes, I know it's not perfect, but I suppose that's why God gave us the Holy Spirit. The main point of the Bible is Godly Love for our fellow man. That doesn't mean that we must agree with him/her, but that we care for each other.

1 John 2:7-11
[SUP]7 [/SUP]Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. [SUP]8 [/SUP]On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. [SUP]9 [/SUP]The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. [SUP]10 [/SUP]The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. [SUP]11 [/SUP]But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

These verses are not talking about our blood relatives, but everyone. We can reference the beginning of this very chapter:

1 John 2:1-2
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; [SUP]2 [/SUP]and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

1 Corinthians 8:10-13
[SUP]10 [/SUP]For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? [SUP]11 [/SUP]For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. [SUP]12 [/SUP]And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. [SUP]13 [/SUP]Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
 
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Remember they had dated the figures 2500 BC and which that means that science is playing a guessing game. They did it with the shroud of Turin and so on, and which they has their own belief system of how old things are by comparing it with other things or methods that they believe of certain age. And so can science explain how the pyramid was built? How did those massive stones were laid on top of one another in perfect formation that you can't even slide a credit card between them? Right if someone has thrown their underwear in the laundry, they can come up with a theory that it has been in the laundry for decades by measuring the dirt and grime that was in the material itself.

You are all over the place and every which way including loose.

Nothing you have posted convinces me that dinosaurs roamed the earth less than 65 million years ago or coexisted with humans.

The overwhelming body of reputable scientific evidence indicates that dinosaurs did not roam the earth less than 65 million years ago and did not coexist with humans.

To convince me otherwise, I need to see some credible evidence from reputable scientific sources, not wing-nut websites. Show me information that is published in peer-reviewed reputable scientific journals and the like.
 

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The making of a planet isn't like that of a star like our sun. The sun required a fusion startup process, while the earth hada much different building process. The "heavens" concept in Gen 1:1 is being touted in modern terms as a vast cloud of matter that collects into many planetary bodies. Dr. Jason Lisle, Director of Research at ICR.org, specializing in physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and apologetics can better explain those concepts. If you are ever passing through Dallas TX on vacation try to visit their office, labs and staff about 5 miles NW of Dallas Love Field Airport for an exciting experience.

There is not yet found a shred of evidence of life in the stratigraphic "column" named Precambrian/Archean, what existed of earth's surface before the Precambrian/Proterozoic supposedly starting off with bacteria, algae, etc. Of the Cambrian period and it's explosion of life forms we recognize today comes an obvious witness of a sudden appearance of wide variety or plants and animals that doesn't require believing the Bible to conclude evolution didn't have the supposed long millions of years to evolve into more complex forms in defiance of the second law of thermodynamics. The earliest life forms possessed the maximum potential of cellular complexity, entropy (usable energy only decreases, while unusable energy always increases) has been winding life on earth down from Zero Entropy. That helps explain why nature can't sustain all life forms indefinitely, and explains why organisms don't get more complex.

Taking such things together there is no scientific evidence for the Gap Theory. It was invented as a reaction of Bible scholars to the emerging threat of the evolution theory, which was and still is technically an hypothesis, not achieving theory status, and certainly not inspiring a new law of nature. The reason is that concept can't be observed, nor can it be repeated for observation like with real science investigation. We can't reenact creation either. But common sense good science fairly interpreting what data we do have leads more intelligently to elaborate design and high order rather than randomness and accident of nature.

The ill-conceived Gap Theory has it that an original earth long before Genesis 1 was the domain of Satan, the fallen "Lucifer" who before that time was kicked out of Heaven, who ruled "pre-Adamites" on earth, an earlier model of humanity. That was the time when dinosaurs were contemporary with those "people". It became so wicked that the earth had to be destroyed in a great flood, whatever light they had snuffed out. That left Satan entombed in the wet darkness. The fossil record disproves all that. The dispute of CvE is mainly over dates fossils formed. There is no fossil evidence supporting life at all before the oldest known geologic period. There are a few references in the Bible to a flood some say was that most ancient one before the flood of Noah's time. But the context of those passages clearly indicates the destruction was that described in Gen 7-8. It is quite absurd that such a destruction before Gen 1:1 could have any meaning for man in Bible times or today. The one Noah survived was suffient for instruction and warning for man to repent and remain accountable to God.
I feel that I need to tell you that I am not trying to push a pre-creation existence. I just don't think that I can make an argument one way or the other based on what I read in Genesis 1. However, I do believe that everything we see, besides water and earth (ground, dirt), was created during the six days of creation (according to the Bible, which I do consider a trust worthy source). But Genesis 1 does not say that God created the earth or water during the six days of creation. I don't know why, but it is what it is. The earth and the water were here before the first day, according to the Bible. The Bible only says that God divided the waters during the 2nd and 3rd days. Maybe He created the earth and waters immediately before the first day, but I, personally, can't make that claim, because I don't know.
 
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Jack, the problem I have with "science" is not the study of the natural world, but the bias of scientists that push that God cannot be the explanation for our existence. They are so busy trying to prove that God doesn't exist that they can't produce true science.


Many scientists believe in God and evolution. The majority of Christian churches believe in God and support evolution.

My objection is to pitting science against religion, when it is not necessary.

It makes Christians look foolish in the eyes of many. Is that what we want?
 

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Another thing that I find interesting, is that Peter says, "But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men." I am not sure if Peter is referring to physical fire, but it is interesting that scientists say that the earth started as a molten ball and then cooled. So, if Peter is being literal, then it is going to end the same way.

I used to find that more interesting before I considered the possibility that Peter was referring to spiritual fire. Again, I don't know...strong feelings, but no absolutes on this topic.
 
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Many scientists believe in God and evolution. The majority of Christian churches believe in God and support evolution.

My objection is to pitting science against religion, when it is not necessary.

It makes Christians look foolish in the eyes of many. Is that what we want?

The world is foolish in the eyes of God - i don't think a Christian should care what they thing


Evolution isn't observable - no one has ever seen, in the span of all human history one kind change into another

It isn't testable - the amount of time it would take, it is impossible, we have tried with fruit flies - nothing

It isn't repeatable - no one can reproduce the results


It's a bunch of nonsense, grasping at straws, ultimately to disbelieve the Bible and Jesus Christ. Get into the level above a BA, and you learn a lot more than superficial stuff High School teaches you.

Creation as well is not testable, observable, or repeatable - but the Bible is Historical, not Scientific - that changes much
 

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Many scientists believe in God and evolution. The majority of Christian churches believe in God and support evolution.

My objection is to pitting science against religion, when it is not necessary.

It makes Christians look foolish in the eyes of many. Is that what we want?
What we want...No. But "they" have taken God out of our schools (as much as they can) and we must stand up for God. Scientists are proposing a "No God Theory". And besides that, they are breaking their own rules to make Evolution a theory. They assume that their dating methods are accurate, but there is no way to confirm the dating process beyond a fairly limited amount of time.
 
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Many scientists believe in God and evolution. The majority of Christian churches believe in God and support evolution.

My objection is to pitting science against religion, when it is not necessary.

It makes Christians look foolish in the eyes of many. Is that what we want?
I think that science is doing that to themselves. It had taken many of years for people to accept it, and now people are getting smarter and distrusting. Like there is too many weight loss pill and drink that science has created and say that it is safe, but turn out it isn't. As its says in the scriptures to not trust man for they doesn't know what they are doing.
All science is doing is experimenting to see what happens afterward, and which they doesn't know what it does from the beginning.

Here's an video of science at work..
<strong>[video=youtube_share;vYEXzx-TINc]http://youtu.be/vYEXzx-TINc[/video]
 
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The 5,300 Year Old Mesopotamian Diplodocus on an ancient cylinder seal.




This ancient cylinder seal, currently housed at the Louvre Museum portrays sauropod like creatures as well as giant “birds” or pterosaurs. The seal is from Mesopotamia, approximately 3300 B.C. (Moortgart, Anton, The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia, 1969, plate 292., presumably seen by the artist.

I would ask that the interested reader note the points of similarity between a close-up of the “sauropod” depiction created by rolling the cylinder with the skull of Diplodocus Longus. This is the basis for me to call this creature and the consistent comparisons below diplodocus depictions.

What do you think? Bird or sauropod?
We were discussing these at length about six days ago. They are legitimate ancient Egyptian artifacts but the images are not sauropods. They are stylized lions. The same motif is used on the artifact shown below, but the detail is much better:




As I said before, "Now, they no longer look like dinosaurs. Note that the Egyptians are known for creating fanciful creatures and animal-human gods. My question here is: Why don't creation web sites show such images as this piece of pottery? Answer: It would undermine their claim that the other image is that of a dinosaur."

Take note 4Enlightenment, these are not sauropods. Do you finally agree?
 
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We were discussing these at length about six days ago. They are legitimate ancient Egyptian artifacts but the images are not sauropods. They are stylized lions. The same motif is used on the artifact shown below, but the detail is much better:




As I said before, "Now, they no longer look like dinosaurs. Note that the Egyptians are known for creating fanciful creatures and animal-human gods. My question here is: Why don't creation web sites show such images as this piece of pottery? Answer: It would undermine their claim that the other image is that of a dinosaur."

Take note 4Enlightenment, these are not sauropods. Do you finally agree?
Well, this doesn't look like any being that I've had seen before, but where did they get this illustration from?

 
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The world is foolish in the eyes of God - i don't think a Christian should care what they thing

Get into the level above a BA, and you learn a lot more than superficial stuff High School teaches you.
So then you are a scientist with an advanced degree?

Where did you get your Ph.D.? I'm just wondering if it is the same place Dr. Dino (Kent Hovind) got his.

If you are a scientist, then I assume you prefer reading scientific material, as opposed to a Ken Ham comic book portraying dinosaurs and humans as coexisting.

Please show me some articles from your scientific journals with articles indicating that the earth is 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
 
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So then you are a scientist with an advanced degree?

Where did you get your Ph.D.? I'm just wondering if it is the same place Dr. Dino (Kent Hovind) got his.

If you are a scientist, then I assume you prefer reading scientific material, as opposed to a Ken Ham comic book portraying dinosaurs and humans as coexisting.

Please show me some articles from your scientific journals with articles indicating that the earth is 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
The controversial discovery of 68-million-year-old soft tissue from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rexfinally has a physical explanation. According to new research, iron in the dinosaur's body preserved the tissue before it could decay.
The research, headed by Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist at North Carolina State University, explains how proteins — and possibly even DNA — can survive millennia. Schweitzer and her colleagues first raised this question in 2005, when they found the seemingly impossible: soft tissue preserved inside the leg of an adolescent T. rexunearthed in Montana. Controversial T. Rex Soft Tissue Find Finally Explained

Scientist will go all out of their way to make up stories because they believe that everyone is an idiot and they will listen to them over anyone else. They should receive the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, because they are great for making up fake analysis and words. Their mentor must of had been Roald Dahl, because he is great for making up words. I know those artifacts are real and I do believe that they will protect their investment by debunking others. They need people to support them, and without the people support, then there is no funding.
 
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Well, this doesn't look like any being that I've had seen before, but where did they get this illustration from?

What illustration? Are you talking about the sphinx that you posted an image of? I am pointing out that the the so-called sauropod motif is nothing of the sort. These are stylized lions with stretched necks. Do you now agree that they are not dinosaurs. See below:

 
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The controversial discovery of 68-million-year-old soft tissue from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rexfinally has a physical explanation. According to new research, iron in the dinosaur's body preserved the tissue before it could decay.
The research, headed by Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist at North Carolina State University, explains how proteins — and possibly even DNA — can survive millennia. Schweitzer and her colleagues first raised this question in 2005, when they found the seemingly impossible: soft tissue preserved inside the leg of an adolescent T. rexunearthed in Montana. Controversial T. Rex Soft Tissue Find Finally Explained

Scientist will go all out of their way to make up stories because they believe that everyone is an idiot and they will listen to them over anyone else. They should receive the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, because they are great for making up fake analysis and words. Their mentor must of had been Roald Dahl, because he is great for making up words. I know those artifacts are real and I do believe that they will protect their investment by debunking others. They need people to support them, and without the people support, then there is no funding.
So when the scientific results come in from reputable sources and the consensus does not agree with your pre-conceived notions, it is a conspiracy, 'eh?

Like I said, I know mermaids are real. If it quacks like a fish, it's a fish. Incidentally, I'm a French model. Bon jour.
 
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What illustration? Are you talking about the sphinx that you posted an image of? I am pointing out that the the so-called sauropod motif is nothing of the sort. These are stylized lions with stretched necks. Do you now agree that they are not dinosaurs. See below:

Back then they have believe that the Lion is the king of all beasts because of its strength, agility, and able to flex in many positions and has sharp claws and long sharp teeth and which an T-Rex is limited. Most animals fear them because of those reasons which they know it isn't even a challenge. And so they had use a man head and a lions body to put fear in someones eyes, like a scare-crow. On this image they used the head of an lion and the body of something else. If a T-Rex trip and fall during a battle with a lion, it will be defenseless against the lion.
 
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So when the scientific results come in from reputable sources and the consensus does not agree with your pre-conceived notions, it is a conspiracy, 'eh?

Like I said, I know mermaids are real. If it quacks like a fish, it's a fish. Incidentally, I'm a French model. Bon jour.
The story about mermaids must of derived from a fish that had walked on the shores, and then the story had spread from it about mermaids, like the stories about unicorn. Trying to explain about life in other part of the world to someone that never heard or been there; in the listener mind will come up with all sort of images.