Posted on 01/22/2005 2:15:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
So what is that.?....a naked sea spider?
That looks more like the discription.
GRASS has become established in Antarctica for the first time,
From your link:
The island has a relatively diverse flora and luxuriant development of plant communities, representative of the southern maritime Antarctic region. >The rich terrestrial biology of Lagotellerie Island was first noted by Herwil Bryant, biologist at East Base (US, on Stonington Island; now Historic Monument No. 55), during a visit in 1940-41 when he observed growths of moss, the Antarctic hair grass Deschampsia antarctica, and "a small flowering plant" (almost certainly the Antarctic pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis), in a small gully – believed to be that found at the north-eastern end of the island – which he considered of such unusual richness for the region that he unofficially referred to it as "Shangri-la Valley". He did not describe the less luxuriant but more extensive communities of Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis found on the higher north-facing slopes of the island. These slopes and terraces also provide favourable microclimatic conditions for growth, with a relatively long snow-free growing season, and support an abundance of Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis, the grass forming closed swards of up to 10 m2 on some of the terraces. These are among the largest stands of these plants known south of the South Shetland Islands. Both species flower abundantly and the seeds have a greater viability than those produced in the South Orkney or South Shetland Islands, yet they are close to the southern limit of their range. Lagotellerie Island, however, is notable for the growth of Deschampsia antarctica at the highest altitude recorded south of 56° S, with scattered small plants observed at heights of up to 275 m. Colobanthus quitensis has been observed growing up to 120 m on the island.
Damn liars!!!!
BTTT!!!
It's hard to believe that at a time when ice flows are growing so fast that island-sized icebergs are breaking off, and the bergs are threatening New Zealand's shipping lanes. Warming? couldn't we use some?
My friend in Michigan thinks so.
When Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviet Union in the cold war, and the hopes of the world socialists overcoming the west were dashed.
BTT!!!!!!
Did you really mean allegory? - A study of Hebrew will alleviate such nonsense; the days of Genesis were normal days, not some other period. ("the evening and the morning were the ___ day")
What's new Ernest?
Cool. Golfing in Antarctica next.
Then why your comment about how "fascinating" it is to see that "the same people who push natural selection" also seem to think there can be a status quo in nature? It sounds an awful lot to me an Evo/Creation debate statement. I'm hard pressed to identify anything else that can be read into such a statment.
Wonderful news, let's have trees and much more warmth!
That's more like it. You say 'sea spider' to me, I start thinking melted lemon garlic butter. Mmm..
My big fat Webster's dictionary uses the word "parable" in its definition of the word "allegory," which I had to look up! So I guess yes, I really meant "allegory" ... according to my dictionary, that's what a "parable" is.
Perhaps a study of Hebrew confirms what you say. Therefore, the earth is 5,000 years old? All I can say, is then, that the Hebrew code is being misread by men, because I no more believe, or think God would be impressed if I did, that the world is 5,000 years old than I believe that the sun revolves around the earth. God gave us brains, He made us in His image, and brainy guys like Darwin (who was a Christian, not an atheist) use and have used that gift from God to observe the world around them. Sometimes what they observe doesn't square-up with man's literal interpretation of the bible's representation of the physical world.
Apparently you think it's more Christ-like or God-like to ignore what God-given intelligence and reason reveals is truth regarding the physical world, and accept instead the word of theolgians and academics who believe they know the secrets of how God performs His miracles? The value of the bible is its moral guidance. It is a handbook that tells us how we can thrive. It is no more a physical textbook than a cookbook is a review of restaurants.
If evolution negated the moral teachings of Christ and the Bible, I'd be troubled in my heart. But indeed, evolution rather confirms them in an abstract sense: adapt and survive; fail to adapt and perish. Human societies that adapt to God's laws -- although they may seem at odds with the "natural" world and its own rules of kill-or-be-killed -- thrive, and will always survive. Those that don't, are doomed to experience strife and ultimately, destruction. Look at our own American culture. The farther we stray from God's moral laws, the more unstable we become.
Certainly Godless governments such as Communism are inevitably doomed to cave in on themselves -- it doesn't take a rocket scientist, or Hebrew scholars, to figure that one out.
What really puzzles me is ... why is the prospect that God formed us slowly through time via other of His creations, so horrifying to so many Christians? It is not taking another god before God; it is not worshipping a graven image. It is a challenge to men who presume to interpret God's word for everyone else. Evolution doesn't challenge God, it challenges men.
The earth is approx. 6000 years old. That is what the Bible geneologies indicate, and that is what the physical evidence says.
If you use the preferred rock dating methods on newly cooled volcanic rocks in Hawaii, or Washington, it will tell you that those rocks are 300 million years old, so where is the credibility of the method? If you ask the psuedo-scientists why, they will simply assert that the test doesn't work on new rock; are you buying? Where is the common sense?
BTW, Darwin was a practicing occultist, until he became terminally ill, at which time he admitted that his theory had huge holes in it.
My God was and is powerful enough to do things exactly as he said in his word.
That is because you don't know me or how much time I spend fighting the enviros that are killing our property rights. This was a statement about them, no more, no less.
So when it blooms all warm and lovely, we can try the concept of freedom THERE.
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