Anyone else who reads here like dinoasuars? I think they're dead cute! Would have one as a pet if possible! One of the sad, doe eyed ones! But, I do have to say, that when I was being drawn by God, yet unconverted, that the bigest single thing I could not understand in creation was, where did all the dinosaurs go? Jurrasic park and the like, even tho fictionalized at least from a historical point of view are fed to us as fact. And a real short few years ago, they had this BBC documentary on here called "Walking with Dinosaurs" which told the apparently "factual" story of the life and death and extinction of most of the speciies. I have the videos of this serius. But was sure confusing. And there was another TV proggie too. Think it was just called "space" and it was about the so called "big bang" and so forth, also presented as irrefutable fact. I was interested in these things, never having an education and not having heard of them. I thought the big bang meant a pile up on the motorway/freeway,
so decided to watch and learn. The dinasaurs one I watched, the space one I kept falling to sleep half way through. Never did see it. But every time I see a new story of some fossil or other being discovered and how it is dated and presented as fact, it makes me think of the former brain washing. Its like Catholicsim in a way, and the popish papacy! If you've never had an minute to do with God or religion in any context, you still know most of what catholics believe. You can't get away from it. Tis brainwashing! Trouble is, if folks come from the right background, and are utterly hardedned to God, it could in some small way brainwash them right into hell. My pastor does Bible expo's at local schools. And he can present the Bible and what it teaches, I don't think we are so restricting in that as over yonder, but if he says about anything in the Bible, he can't say its fact. he can only say stuff like "The Bible says" etc. Yet dinosaurs, and King Kongs mother is spoonfed us as utter, undeniable fact.This was the latest fossilized fossil story I came across:
inosaur Discoveries Help Clock Continental Drift
Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and his colleagues recovered the dinosaur remains from Niger during two trips in 1997 and 2000. The 95-million-year-old skull is from a species the scientists named Rugops primus, which translates to "first wrinkle face." The 30-foot-long creature had a short, round snout, small teeth and a tough covering of scales. "It was hard to see which end was the front, but we quickly realized we were looking at a brain case, and that it was probably an abelisaur--a huge find," Sereno recalls. In addition, the Rugops skull has a row of seven holes on either side of its snout, which the scientists posit could have anchored an ornamental feature. The researchers also recovered the 135-million-year-old spine of another dinosaur, Spinostropheus gautieri, which is an ancient relative of Rugops and other abelisaurids. |
From Scientific America |
