Spectacular specimen: This bug's a big one - 8 feet long - and New Mexico scientists nabbed...

Albuquerque Tribune ^ | April 14, 2005 | Sue Vorenberg

[Nowhere Man]

Dang, regular milipedes make me freak out. 8 feet long, I think I'll need an M-60 machine gun or a BAR to take that thing out. B-) A friend of mine told me a story where his father was a M-60 gunner on a chopper in Vietnam, he did encounter a millipede over a foot long over there, he freaked and emptied almost a full belt into it. Later, he was in a crawl space under his home and a regular millipede crawed on his hand and he freaked out there. Those things are nasty. I hate centipedes too. Yuck!

[null and void]

DATE IT?! What kind of movie do you take one of those to?

The Tingler.

[savedbygrace]

Minor correction: The fountains of the deep opened up. Under great pressure, the water, when released, spewed up several miles, then fell back to earth. That was the rain.

(Note: This is a theory.)

[null and void]

If you are "The Crazed Unknown Hermit" is Darks "The Crazed Unknown Hemit"?

[mewzilla]

DATE IT?! What kind of movie do you take one of those to?

Sigh. They don't make'em like that anymore.

[lepton]

Fewer plants. Plants during this period were growing like crazy, pumping huge amounts of oxygen into the atmosphere (hence the really big bugs). At the end of this period, the oxygen levels dropped (maybe from global cooling and drying killing off a lot of the world's vegetation).

but unless you are assuming large amounts of the oxygen was buried, then that doesn't make sense. It's not like we have 10% CO2 floating around now.

[Junior]

Oxygen is reactive and combines with all sorts of other agents. All that extra oxygen is locked up.

[Junior]

We are being lied to by evolutionists.

Them!

[Junior]

(Note: This is a theory.)

No, it is a hypothesis. A theory has supporting evidence.

[Zeroisanumber]

Anyway, my question is WHY did the atmosphere change at that time??

More plants meant more oxygen. It's a lot more complex than that, but that's the simple answer.

[null and void]

As Renfield said in post #97:

This brings up an interesting issue. Arthropods don't have lungs (at least, not in the mammalian sense). They breath through their skin. How could a creature this size have taken in enough oxygen to survive? It could only happen, I suspect, if the air pressure was vastly denser than it is now. We must have lost a lot of air somewhere along the path of history.

I have on occasion seen fossils of flying insects that are orders of magnitude larger than their descendants of today. This also suggests that the air was once much more dense.

Compare the atmospheric density on Earth to Venus, or any other planet in the system except Mercury and Mars...

[irish guard]

I bet those suckers taste reeeeeeal goooood.

[meatloaf]

Betcha can't eat just one.

[Junior]

How odd. What I copied and pasted is not what showed up. Alternate universe thingy again...

[savedbygrace]

There is supporting evidence for this theory. Take it up with Dr. Walter Brown, not me.

[Junior]

Oh, you mean the Dr. Walter Brown at the Center for Creation Science? The one who completely ignores the laws of physics in his writings?

Problems with a global flood

[Darksheare]

My greatest creation.
And it calls out cadence as it walks too.

[P.O.E.]

Give that guy a kazoo and a jug, and I'd bet you'd have a real swingin' sound.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

If that thing is 8 feet tall then the guy is over 9 feel tall?!

/humor

[lepton]

More plants meant more oxygen. It's a lot more complex than that, but that's the simple answer.

But not from the atmosphere. More plants that deoxidized metals maybe.