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'Monstrously Big Ant' Fossil Found in Wyoming
LiveScience.com ^ | 5/3/11 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 05/03/2011 9:41:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: TigersEye

He’s got too many legs to be a spider! By my count, that ugly sucker has ten legs!

(shudder)


41 posted on 05/04/2011 7:59:13 AM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: RoadGumby

Not the point. This thread is not about creation or religious beliefs. It is about old bugs. Semms like every science thread or subject some bible thumper always shows up to tell us about the great flood and the ark or some other biblical fable. If thats what you believe thats fine with me but why try and hijack a discussion among those who may not have those views?


42 posted on 05/04/2011 8:02:48 AM PDT by eastforker
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To: NormsRevenge
Ants? Oh, I really don't like ants!


43 posted on 05/04/2011 8:04:43 AM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: eastforker

Yet, because of those beliefs, one way or the other, there could be said to be ‘incorrect information’ presented in the article.

As an aside, you should thank those bible thumper you so obviously despise. That faith, the Judeo-Christian morals and foundation is what this great country was founded on.


44 posted on 05/04/2011 8:07:04 AM PDT by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: RoadGumby

Well my definition of hell is being stuck in a room full of evangelicals for eternity.


45 posted on 05/04/2011 8:09:47 AM PDT by eastforker
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To: eastforker

The truth about the big ant’s origin and demise are unimportant to the thread?


46 posted on 05/04/2011 8:10:29 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

You mean your biblical theory?


47 posted on 05/04/2011 8:12:01 AM PDT by eastforker
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To: eastforker

Just as “proveable” as the one you assume.


48 posted on 05/04/2011 8:14:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: eastforker
Well my definition of hell is being stuck in a room full of evangelicals for eternity.

You won't have to worry about it. And, you know, that's exactly what CS Lewis proposed in "Mere Christianity" - that for someone who rejects God, being "forced into His presence" for all eternity would BE hell.

Be happy you won't have to suffer that.

49 posted on 05/04/2011 8:17:47 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: FreeMaine
* Correction: Almost 50 million 4,500 years ago, just before God flooded the entire world to a depth of 20’ over the muntain tops, ants the size of hummingbirds roamed what is now Wyoming, a new fossil discovery reveals. *

I agree.

50 posted on 05/04/2011 8:37:02 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: eastforker

While I do pray you change that definition, you are welcome to your view, though, you will find that hell is just a bit worse.

The sad thing is, you’ll have plenty of time to reflect on how many ‘hellish evangelicals’ tried to open your eyes that your only hope of salvation FROM hell is Jesus.

Have a ‘nice’ eternity.


51 posted on 05/04/2011 8:38:46 AM PDT by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: RikaStrom

LOL I have a problem with spiders too. But as the page explains it’s not a spider and those front “legs” aren’t legs. They are actually mouth parts called pedipalps.


52 posted on 05/04/2011 8:44:12 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: NormsRevenge; stormer
Not a problem. Leningen's on his way to see to it...


53 posted on 05/04/2011 8:46:33 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: RoadGumby
Yes, because we don’t tolerate differing views here. Right?

Considering how many serious scientists have been zotted that might be a valid statement.

54 posted on 05/04/2011 8:48:10 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: All

This would track with the highter oxygen levels in the earlier atmosphere.

Insects could grow larger without circulatory systems because a more oxygen rich environment could permiate deeper into the insect body.


55 posted on 05/04/2011 9:09:55 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: TigersEye

Yet there is eastforker - he has his view of this. I’d not advocate zotting him. Yet, his reaction - derisive name-calling, is not the way to go either.

Creationism and Christianity/Judaism are not anti-science. Some scientists say, within their sphere of study that the earth is millions of years old. I’d say different, but there ya go. As I do not ridicule these scientists for their view, neither should I be for mine.


56 posted on 05/04/2011 9:10:06 AM PDT by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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57 posted on 05/04/2011 9:19:29 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Almost as evil as the Freeper Criminal Mastermind)
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To: RoadGumby

We’re all looking at the same evidence, but interpreting it through our assumptions. Creationists all recognize this fact. Egos won’t even recognize that they HAVE presuppositions.


58 posted on 05/04/2011 9:19:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: shibumi
Sigh. They don't make 'em like that amymore :)
59 posted on 05/04/2011 9:21:12 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: RoadGumby; eastforker; Kevmo
Well you can't ridicule the scientists on this forum because most of them are gone and the rest have shut up. Of course no counter views can be posted on a religious forum thread closed or open. They will be deleted on the closed threads and there will be severe ridicule and name calling on the open ones and a strong risk of being banned. No such risk demurs to you or anyone else who wants to jump into any thread of a scientific nature and disrupt it.

Kevmo petitioned heavily at one time for closed and moderated science threads but it never went anywhere.

60 posted on 05/04/2011 9:24:27 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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