Posted on 03/24/2005 12:04:54 PM PST by wallcrawlr
WASHINGTON — For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.
"We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising,'' she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.
The soft tissues were recovered from the thighbone of a T. rex, known as MOR 1125, that was found in a sandstone formation in Montana. The dinosaur was about 18 years old when it died.
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These cattle are called Bos primigenius, or the Aurochs. Some of my ancestors drew pictures of them in caves in France tens of thousands of years ago. The last of them were "wiped out" or "barbequed" in Europe about 1200 AD.
Some of mankind's oldest records discuss him in detail.
Yep. Almost as hard to believe as immaculate conception spawned by a deity and the half-human offspring rising to life three days after being crucified.
There are doctorates to be earned!
Why not go all the way with Last Tuesdayism?
Your friend may be interested to know that there's actually a name for this position (and that it's not new). From Wikipedia:
Omphalos (theology)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from Omphalos hypothesis)The omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book by Philip Henry Gosse in which he argued that in order for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains, canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels (omphalos is Greek for "navel"), and that therefore no evidence we can see of the presumed age of the world can be taken as reliable. The idea has seen some revival in the twentieth century by modern creationists who have extended the argument to light which appears to originate in far-off stars and galaxies.
The Omphalos hypothesis contains a powerful philosophic problem, one that troubles even those who have applied it in recent times. Since the hypothesis is based on the idea that apparent age is an illusion, it is perfectly reasonable to suggest that world was created ten minutes ago. Any memories you have of times before this were created in-situ, in exactly the same fashion that the fossils were. This idea is sometimes called "Last-Thursdayism" by its opponents, as in "the world might as well have been created last Thursday."
This view is not popular for various reasons:
- It is unverifiable and unfalsifiable;
- It can be interpreted as God having 'created a fake', which does not sit well with most benevolent theistic theologies;
- This philosophical approach, extended to other areas, has serious negative implications for science as a whole
The omphalos hypothesis appears to be yet another variation on the ancient theme of all mystics: "Your senses are unreliable, so trust your swami, who knows all"
Obviously, HE has a belly button.Of course, good-for-nothing nipples and a belly button where Mother God used to supply nutrients to God when he was a fetus.
Getting-very-silly placemarker.
I love that line lol
Compared to?
C'mon man. Have a little faith.
Are we trying to be funny? He was probably a pastiche. A greatly expanded version of the much simpler accounts passed down by the Jews.
Funny, them Jews. They seem to have been the only ones to pass down 'simplified' versions of these stories. Were they anal, deciding to go back and cut out huge chunks of the stories they supposedly swiped from the Babylonians and Egyptians? If so, they missed a lot of potentially embarrassing details (or 'plot points') that could have used cutting.
How can we know what we don't know?
Why do we dream if our thoughts mean nothing?
Check out II Peter 3:5 "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old..."
I've entertained the idea for years now that we will one day have dating services with Marilyn Monroe, nightclubs with Elvis and history tours with Abe Lincoln etc.
With all of the money to be made, it seems impossible that clones of famous deceased will not be produced.
A worldwide flood would create the layers. Mt. St. Helens was a perfect example.
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