BOO!
Posted on 07/26/2007 12:12:38 PM PDT by blam
BOO!
Looking at my in-laws, I’d say they are correct.....
Some of the Dems. make so little sense when they talk, I wonder about where their DNA came from. Especially someone such as Hillary, where people wonder if she’s human or robot, female or some other gender combination...........
“This is the most robust data we have seen to date.”
That’s not saying a hell of a lot.
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They found Lord Ganesh's remains?
I just hope that picture was taken with a telephoto lens! That pachyderm looks like he’s getting ready to come after you!
Is that why some women have butts he size of an elephants. :)
I’ve found it! At last, the proof of the Mammoth Conspiracy
I’ve been looking for the deep-cover conspiracy about the spate of mammoth stories recently. Now I realize it’s all aplot by AL Gore and his legions of Greens. It’s all about climate change.
“Mammoths and Asian elephants speciated around 6.7 million years ago, roughly the same time humans and chimps split.
He added that several groups of modern animals—not just elephants and humans—went through significant change during that time, the late Miocene period. The most widely held theory about what happened then is that climate change led to ...fragmented habitats and spurred many species to evolve.
The new study lends further credibility to the notion that climate change can lead to evolutionary change.”
The Theory: Accept Kyoto are you face another evolutionary change, presumably back into gorillas—or possibly into Gila Monsters.
Gee, but I’d give the world to see
that old gang of mine!
I can’t forget that old quartet
that sang “Sweet Adeline!” ( Sweet Adeline! )
Goodbye forever, old fellas an’ gals
goodbye forever, old sweethearts an’ pals
God Bless them!
Gee, but I’d give the world to see
that old gang of mine!
The only factual nugget in the entire article is that the genome sequence of the woolly mammoth was closer to that of the Asian elephant than the African elephant.
The rest of it is the usual evolutionist speculation and spin sans factual content.
I found this statement intriguing (is radio carbon dating really THAT unrealiable?):
“Radiocarbon dating of the collagen in the tooth places its age at at least 50,000 years. But researchers have concluded, based on the dating of other material from the area, that the fossil may be as old as 130,000 years old.”
The problem there being that since humans are a cancer to Gaia and evil running dog capitalist pigs have wiped out so many species, we "need" a major climate change to wipe out humans and refill empty wildlife niches.
Clearly then we should all do our part and buy bigger SUVs.
No, but by 50,000 years of age there isn't enough 14C left to accurately measure, therefore the carbon dating technique can only say that the sample is older that it can measure.
I have seen the creationists deliberately use this fact to misrepresent data, claiming that carbon dating is 'no good' because samples 'alleged' to be millions of years old are indistinguishable from samples 'alleged' to be billions of years old. And then going on to to assert (by a literal leap of faith) that this proves that the entire universe is 6000 years old.
I agree. Exactly my thoughts.
I’m willing to embrace the theory of imminent extinction of the race due to global warming—if it will get me laid as an emergency—sort of a “eat drink and make Mary for tomorrow we die” proposition.
“Radiocarbon dating of the collagen in the tooth places its age at at least 50,000 years. But researchers have concluded, based on the dating of other material from the area, that the fossil may be as old as 130,000 years old.
Radiocarbon dating is quite reliable, if used within its limits.
One of those limits is that it only extends back some 50,000 years. A few labs are working to extend that to perhaps 80,000 years, but that is still experimental.
Thus, a date based on radiocarbon dating of some item which is actually 130,000 years old might be reported as >50,000 BP.
You really need to understand science, and the details, before you go bashing it.
Here are some good links on radiocarbon and other forms of radiometric dating. If you have any questions on radiocarbon dating, let me know.
ReligiousTolerance.org Carbon-14 Dating (C-14): Beliefs of New-Earth CreationistsRadiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens.
This site, BiblicalChronologist.org has a series of good articles on radiocarbon dating.
Are tree-ring chronologies reliable? (The Biblical Chronologist, Vol. 5, No. 1)
Tree Ring and C14 DatingHow does the radiocarbon dating method work? (The Biblical Chronologist, Vol. 5, No. 1)
How precise is radiocarbon dating?
Is radiocarbon dating based on assumptions?
Has radiocarbon dating been invalidated by unreasonable results?
Radiocarbon WEB-info Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Wholeheartedly agree that the anthropogenic climate change allegations by demagogues (the best known of whom is Al Gore) is an angle being worked in pretty much any partisan shilling service in the media. The whole of the new issue of Popular Science fits this category, even mentioning “An Inconvenient Truth” and Al Gore. If I see this magazine continue in this direction (and frankly, I thought it was a failing of the previous editor, now I see that it is systemic), I’m going to cancel the subscription, which has been in effect for over forty years.
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