SteezePatrol
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Legit, bullshit, or put in the ground to test our faith?
Dinosaurs...?
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SteezePatrol
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these beasts intrigue me, go on
dman1260
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i was just reading genesis for my lit class and on the 5th day maybe 6th God brought forth all the living creaturs , the cattle, the creeping things, and the beasts of the earth. They were made right before adam and were made to serve him or whatever. The Bible doesn't say what the beasts are but I guess dinosaurs could have been one of them. Probably not, but you never know.
dman1260
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Yeah, but the Bible also is very unclear about time. And many people in the bible live for thousands of years and I don't think it is made clear how long adam and eve lived before they ate from the tree. Or even how long they lived in total.
But in reality, I don't think the bible is 100% correct, probably far from it, so what the bible says in relation to dinosaurs isn't important. They just existed cause we have their bones.
But in reality, I don't think the bible is 100% correct, probably far from it, so what the bible says in relation to dinosaurs isn't important. They just existed cause we have their bones.
sack
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enough silliness though, now for my semi-intelligent comment.
of course dinosaurs are legit. Their descendents are still living on earth, and we have many fossils and remains dating back eons to prove the existence of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Also, the bible is not something that should be taken literally--even if some of the stories are based on true events, it's certainly not a credible scientific source of information, and many of the abovementioned true events are obviously exaggerated.
of course dinosaurs are legit. Their descendents are still living on earth, and we have many fossils and remains dating back eons to prove the existence of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Also, the bible is not something that should be taken literally--even if some of the stories are based on true events, it's certainly not a credible scientific source of information, and many of the abovementioned true events are obviously exaggerated.
unchyll
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yuuup but christians arent gonna let christianity go...
we even found jesus's fucking body and they still have faith
so lets just let them be happy wasting their life in church looking forward to something like heaven that isnt real and we'll live our one and only life without worries of going to hell if we dont wake up at 730 in the morning on sunday and go to church
we even found jesus's fucking body and they still have faith
so lets just let them be happy wasting their life in church looking forward to something like heaven that isnt real and we'll live our one and only life without worries of going to hell if we dont wake up at 730 in the morning on sunday and go to church
MissMontana
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/may/dinosaur.php?page=1
Snippets:
"After 68 million years in the ground, a Tyrannosaurus rex found in Montana was dug up, its leg bone was broken in pieces, and fragments were dissolved in acid in Schweitzer’s laboratory at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. “Cool beans,” she says, looking at the image on the screen.
"It was big news indeed last year when Schweitzer announced she had discovered blood vessels and structures that looked like whole cells inside that T. rex bone—the first observation of its kind.
"Meanwhile, Schweitzer’s research has been hijacked by “young earth” creationists, who insist that dinosaur soft tissue couldn’t possibly survive millions of years. They claim her discoveries support their belief, based on their interpretation of Genesis, that the earth is only a few thousand years old.
"What she found instead was evidence of heme in the bones—additional support for the idea that they were red blood cells. Heme is a part of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in the blood and gives red blood cells their color. “It got me real curious as to exceptional preservation,” she says.
It turned out Bob had been misnamed. “It’s a girl and she’s pregnant,” Schweitzer recalls telling her lab technician when she looked at the fragments.
Of course, what everyone wants to know is whether DNA might be lurking in that tissue. Wittmeyer, from much experience with the press since the discovery, calls this “the awful question”—whether Schweitzer’s work is paving the road to a real-life version of science fiction’s Jurassic Park, ...ridiculously hard to study because it is so easily contaminated with modern biological material, such as microbes or skin cells, while buried or after being dug up. Instead, Schweitzer has been testing her dinosaur tissue samples for proteins, which are a bit hardier and more readily distinguished from contaminants. Specifically, she’s been looking for collagen, elastin and hemoglobin.
..."
Anyway, the point is dinosaurs are fucking awesome, they found soft tissue (which actually told us that the dinosaur was a girl and was preggers) and are on the way to being able to isolate proteins and eventually DNA.
Snippets:
"After 68 million years in the ground, a Tyrannosaurus rex found in Montana was dug up, its leg bone was broken in pieces, and fragments were dissolved in acid in Schweitzer’s laboratory at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. “Cool beans,” she says, looking at the image on the screen.
"It was big news indeed last year when Schweitzer announced she had discovered blood vessels and structures that looked like whole cells inside that T. rex bone—the first observation of its kind.
"Meanwhile, Schweitzer’s research has been hijacked by “young earth” creationists, who insist that dinosaur soft tissue couldn’t possibly survive millions of years. They claim her discoveries support their belief, based on their interpretation of Genesis, that the earth is only a few thousand years old.
"What she found instead was evidence of heme in the bones—additional support for the idea that they were red blood cells. Heme is a part of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in the blood and gives red blood cells their color. “It got me real curious as to exceptional preservation,” she says.
It turned out Bob had been misnamed. “It’s a girl and she’s pregnant,” Schweitzer recalls telling her lab technician when she looked at the fragments.
Of course, what everyone wants to know is whether DNA might be lurking in that tissue. Wittmeyer, from much experience with the press since the discovery, calls this “the awful question”—whether Schweitzer’s work is paving the road to a real-life version of science fiction’s Jurassic Park, ...ridiculously hard to study because it is so easily contaminated with modern biological material, such as microbes or skin cells, while buried or after being dug up. Instead, Schweitzer has been testing her dinosaur tissue samples for proteins, which are a bit hardier and more readily distinguished from contaminants. Specifically, she’s been looking for collagen, elastin and hemoglobin.
..."
Anyway, the point is dinosaurs are fucking awesome, they found soft tissue (which actually told us that the dinosaur was a girl and was preggers) and are on the way to being able to isolate proteins and eventually DNA.
and also the bible wasn't written in english the "days" the world was mad in in the origional language means something more like period of time. So each "day" could have been millions of years. and also WHAT? why would you question if dinosours existed i thought it was fact..but hen again people used to think the world was flat, we dont realy know anything till we fully see for ourselves.
Yeah, but I'd just like to point out that even with my fairly limited
biological background, those "young earth" people are just wrong.
Proteins and cellular structures can be preserved and last millions of
years. Stromatolites for example, are some of the earliest known
fossilized life, and they're microbial. We can pick out individual
photocenters inside their cells. These are creatures that lived
billions of years ago. Proteins and other biological remnants can last
for millions of years, if not billions.
And besides that, carbon dating pretty much invalidates any claim they
have to the dinosaurs or even Earths age being a few thousand years
old.
biological background, those "young earth" people are just wrong.
Proteins and cellular structures can be preserved and last millions of
years. Stromatolites for example, are some of the earliest known
fossilized life, and they're microbial. We can pick out individual
photocenters inside their cells. These are creatures that lived
billions of years ago. Proteins and other biological remnants can last
for millions of years, if not billions.
And besides that, carbon dating pretty much invalidates any claim they
have to the dinosaurs or even Earths age being a few thousand years
old.
lushlaxstr
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lagit, havent you seen Barney?
Haha, I got shot down today in class by a prof, so I'm trying to cut back on my biological cocky-ness.
Itsbackfliptime
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how awesome would it be to clone a dinosaur?
charmander
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DINOS ARE FUCKIN REALL!!!!!
1) FUCKIN SICK MAN LIKE GIANT HUGE ASS LIZARDS DUDE
2) makes the bible FUCKIN WRONG
3) if the bible dont mention it it MU+UUUUST be tru
1) FUCKIN SICK MAN LIKE GIANT HUGE ASS LIZARDS DUDE
2) makes the bible FUCKIN WRONG
3) if the bible dont mention it it MU+UUUUST be tru
Charmander!
jimmychung
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dinosaurs rules
God rules
let's just get along!
God rules
let's just get along!
squeakywaffle
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Mr_Bojangles
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Woah hold the phone, do some people on NS actually think that the earth is only a few thousand years old?
I lol at your ignorance.
I lol at your ignorance.
The_Drizzle
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yo dinosaurs was the shit
duhamelski
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first of all the bible wasnt written by god. jesus was a jew. the first scripture was written like 50 years after jesus died. the bible shouldnt be taken for fact. for that matter, jesus didnt create christianity. he was only someone that his deciples talked about while they were creating christianity
Capt.Flannel
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All that matters is that dinosaurs are badass and if God made them, then good for him/her/it for making something so badass. If he/she/it did NOT make dinosaurs, than that just means that dinosaurs are still badass.
