77r 0 #101 April 6, 2007 All possibilities for one person or another. That's the thing about the Bible. If it's not the "proof" that's in question for one thing or another, it's the source providing it. And the debate goes on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #102 April 13, 2007 "Soft tissue taken from 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yields original protein" Dr. Mary Schweitzer does it again! 13 Apr issue of (She Blinded Me With) Science mh ."The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dorbie 0 #103 April 13, 2007 QuoteShit source - still no answers either. Perhaps I should listen to the Mrs and suscribe to get Discovery after all. David Attenborough's "Life on Earth", is still a great primer on all that "unsolved" stuff: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Earth-David-Attenborough/dp/B0000AISIQ/ref=pd_bowtega_1/202-5614716-0067837?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1176464151&sr=1-1 It might cut into your time down the pub though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #104 April 14, 2007 God hid my keys in order to confuse me. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #105 April 14, 2007 QuoteI've heard questions and statements like this before. I've always thought they were just stupid; both from a scientific and religious perspective. If you believe in science, then the answer is clearly no. If you believe in religion, then to admit dinosaurs ever existed opens up such a can of worms you pretty much either have to stop believing or you have to start grasping at the straws of "creation science". Once you start doing that, haven't you already admitted that on some level, you don't actually believe? The pastor at my church once answered my wife's question about the dinosaurs. He said that the sense of time depicted in the bible versus real time are not the same. A million real years might equal one day in the bible... That was his explanation to a tough question... I dunno... we keep finding dinosaur skeletons all the time and have a pretty good technique for carbon dating, as well as having found evidence of two separate cataclysmic meteor/comet collisions, one that gave rise to the dinosaur age 250 million years ago and one that ended it 60 million years ago."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pinkfairy 0 #106 April 14, 2007 "God put those here to test our faith!" "Dude, I think god put YOU here to test my faith!" (originally said by Bill Hicks).Relax, you can die if you mess up, but it will probably not be by bullet. I'm a BIG, TOUGH BIGWAY FORMATION SKYDIVER! What are you? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
philh 0 #107 April 16, 2007 "The pastor at my church once answered my wife's question about the dinosaurs. He said that the sense of time depicted in the bible versus real time are not the same. A million real years might equal one day in the bible... That was his explanation to a tough question... " Isnt that convenient. Whats interesting is that no pastors made this point before the scientific evidence showed it. What this is a case of is... bible doesnt fit the facts, no problem just change what it means until it does. Its not exactly the height of intellectual honesty. The problem is there is in Genesis a day is clearly defined as day and night, so the 1 creation day = 1 million eyars (or whatever it is) doesnt work. It further doesnt work because the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and humans are only a few hundred thousand years old. So even if the Geneiss day was a metaphor for some other amount of time it wouldnt help. Lastly the sequanece of creation is incorrect as well. for example stars are created after the Earth and after plants! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #108 April 17, 2007 In next week's thread we will use a textbook on Renaissance History to learn all about biochemistry. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #109 April 17, 2007 No She put them there to confuse self important theologians. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,274 #110 April 17, 2007 QuoteIn next week's thread we will use a textbook on Renaissance History to learn all about biochemistry. Find me a textbook on Renaissance history that claims to explain biochemistry.Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,467 #111 April 17, 2007 >Find me a textbook on Renaissance history that claims to explain biochemistry. None do. But a council of theologians have determined that when Da Vinci said "Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation" he really meant "the primacy of the DNA-RNA-protein synthesis chain shall not be questioned." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,274 #112 April 17, 2007 Quote>Find me a textbook on Renaissance history that claims to explain biochemistry. None do. But a council of theologians have determined that when Da Vinci said "Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation" he really meant "the primacy of the DNA-RNA-protein synthesis chain shall not be questioned." Which just goes to show why Theology is the second* most useless art form to ever grace the planet. *Second only, of course, to Mime. Fucking mime artistsDo you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites