NEW YORK, May 1, 2008
Dinosaur Dung Worth Big Bucks At Auction
Fossilized Feces From Jurassic Era Fetches Nearly $1,000
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Two specimens of Coprolite, or fossilized dinosaur dung, are among the geological artifacts offered at auction by Bonhams in New York on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Bonhams Auction House)
The prehistoric deposit fetched $960 at Wednesday's auction, said a spokeswoman for Bonhams New York. Its pre-auction estimate was $450.
The fossilized dung is from the Jurassic era, the auction house said. It looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside.
The buyer was Steve Tsengas of Fairport Harbor, Ohio. The 71-year-old owns OurPets, a company that sells products to treat dog and cat waste.
Tsengas bought the dung in hopes of motivating his employees and using it as a marketing tool by displaying it at the company's booth at trade shows, he said.
"Poop," he said, "is a big business in the pet industry."
The natural history auction also included an 18-carat gold box shaped like a crab by lapidary artist Manfred Wild. It sold for $168,000.
Meteorites from the collection of Ron Oriti sold for $95,313.
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See all 174 CommentsI suspect this stuff is actually Jesus shiit. LOL
Posted by libagenda at 10:47 AM : May 01, 2008
singinrick/rickmiessejr, turn then other cheek, you obsessed, s''ick phony. It''s NOT really dinosaur dung, btw, it''s a FOSSIL. Big difference.
Posted by libagenda at 10:47 AM : May 01, 2008
I think it was crapped out by the T-Rex that Moses managed to corral on the Ark. However, I''m not sure if that was before or after it was exposed to the chicken transgenes that made those idiot scientists find similarities in chicken and dino amino acid sequences.
Posted by rational_1
You truly need to take history over again, idiot!!! It was Noah who built the ark, loaded it up with critters, and sailed on it for a time, not Moses!!! If your make ******* remarks about the bible, read the danm bible first!!!
Posted by libagenda
It is fossilized, little religious brain.
Posted by rational_1 at 12:36 PM : May 01, 2008
Don''t be so rough on him, if the old testament can get it so wrong, then surely a small mistake is allowable.
That must have been some boat, I wonder where the technology came from to build such a huge boat from wood, or did this "God" give Noah man the ability to process and manufacture steel, but then, where did that knowledge go to.
Just as with the Ark, it all mysteriously disappeared.
All very confusing, still if we are gullible enough, we shall believe.
Sorry posted by
Posted by rushman71 at 02:59 PM : May 01, 2008
singinrick? texas boy? is that you?
Posted by libagenda
Too bad some here can''t afford a geology textbook....
Posted by libagenda at 06:03 PM : May 01, 2008
hahahaha! A perfect example of s''ick hypocrite speak!
You''re telling me to shutup, but that we (of course you mean just you) have a right to free speech!!
You are so blindly skrewed up....
jimfinster, i think you''ll find s''ick''s myspace page has him in San Diego, but that would require looking at it...
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Posted by libagenda at 11:45 PM
Quit trying to make the Bible a science book, because it isn''t. What you try to do is apply YOUR interpretation of Genesis to science. It doesn''t work that way. Did the Bible tell Louis Pasteur about germs?
Yep, singinrick for sure. I would recognize your silliness anywhere. Did they finally ban you?
LOL
libagenda
Rick
How did Kangaroo''s, Bison, Boa''s Kiwi''s Koala''s, Sloth''s, Bilby''s, etc, etc, get to the Ark.
Did Noah do voyages of dicovery before Columbus, Cook etc.
Posted by libagenda
I agree, and imperfect men wrote the bible. So by your own words, you should not trust the bible. At last something we can agree on !
And at last - the truth is out in the open - MAN WROTE THE BIBLE! I''d like anyone to dispute that. If GOD had written it, there would be no Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Judges, etc... There would only be one long chapter entitled - GOD. And there is no way that dinosaurs and man could have co-existed - NONE! Imagine Noah trying to feed a T-rex or Velociraptor, and how in the world would he fit a brontosaurus on a boat the size mentioned in the bible?!
Oh, and lest we forget that around 2 dozen books were ommitted from the bible and others were changed by the Catholic Church (the so-called chosen ones - hypocrites all of you) hundreds of years ago. Mainly, the bible is more of a fictional work, though many stories are based in part on real events, it was more or less written by early priests and scribes to teach lessons. It is more of a religious history book than anything else, which is why there are so many interpretations of it.
Do I believe in a creator of some kind? Yes.
Do I believe that I must go to a church every Sunday to prove that to other mortal men? No.
Here endeth the lesson.
Posted by fibonacci_ at 03:29 AM : May 02, 2008
I''d be impressed if it even mentioned one dinosaur (supposedly on the Ark, according to Rick). Odd don''t you think that back then there were 100 foot sauropods and 45 ft therapods with 6 inch teeth walking around, and they aren''t even described, much less named, in the Bible? I once went to an online version of the King James Bible and started putting animal names, such as lion, into the search engine, and a whole bunch of animals are listed by name in the Bible. No T. Rex, Styracosaurus, Stegasaurus, etc., though. Wonder why.
Posted by libagenda at 11:35 PM : May 01, 2008
Sorry, s''ick, but you should learn how to read and comprehend. Such as, you believe in evolution, you just call it "polluted genes", EXACTLY the same thing. Darwin is only an incidental frontman in the field, pointing out the obvious that, without him, would''ve only had a different name in his place.
As to your attempt to be persucuted/stalked, YOU left your myspace page in these blogs a long time ago. I could give a ratsbutt about you. Although, I do wish you''d stop making Christians a target here.
How''s the boy doing?
Posted by libagenda
One class of people you can''t trust are the sneering, arrogant Christian bashers who get off by mocking religion. Not just their faith, but the Christians themselves. They''re incapable of showing any respect and decency torward a class of people whose views are different from their own. How vile.
"Turn the other cheek." Where''d i hear that?...
s''ick needs that very badly.
Posted by erichsh
People who believe in a talking snake and a man walking on water deserve to be mocked.
Posted by jimfinster at 11:03 AM : May 02, 2008===
People who mock deserve to be held under water by a mute snake.
How did Kangaroo''''s, Bison, Boa''''s Kiwi''''s Koala''''s, Sloth''''s, Bilby''''s, etc, etc, get to the Ark? Posted by rheola at 01:30 AM : May 02, 2008------G.P.S., as in God''s Positioning System? glub, glub, glub, glub.
You can''t answer that question until you answer this one:
"What''s a ark?" -B.Cosby
Posted by fibonacci_ at 08:57 AM : May 02, 2008
I know, I''ve previously pointed out to him that it''s curious the Bible never mentions dinosaurs. He came back with something from the Bible that stated there were giants in those days. He interpreted that as a description of dinosaurs but I thought it meant that the world used to be populated exclusively by basketball players. That''s why the Bible is useless in terms of its use as a scientific document - you can interpret anything you read pretty well anyway you want.
Did Noah do voyages of dicovery before Columbus, Cook etc.
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Posted by rheola
Actually, if you do the research, the world used to be connected. The continents later drifted apart. Moses wrote about Noah, but the whole Ark thing happened years before Moses was alive. Therefore, one can assume that the animals all lived together in one area at that time.
But I''m confused how a story about dinosaurs became a rant against Christianity.
Believe in God or not, believe in Allah or not, believe in whatever or not, no one has ever proven how we got here.
Posted by rational_1
Absolutely. I cant believe how many Christians think that there is somehow only one "correct" interpretation. I have pointed out before the language is vague and in some cases archaic...but they act as if it was written by some 21st century contract lawyers, so that there is no room for error in interpretation.
Posted by smiley676 at 12:55 PM : May 02, 2008
Nope, timescales are all wrong. You''re right, the continents were all joined together at one time; the landmass was named Pangea, but that was a quarter of a BILLION years ago, not 6000 years ago. Consider that the Pacific ocean is about 12,000 miles wide at its widest. Continental drift would mean the Pacific is enlarging at an average of 2 miles per year, if you want to go with the 4004 BC origin theory. In reality it''s been measured at a couple of inches per year. So, there''s no way all the continents were connected when Noah walked the Earth. Those kangaroos and New World monkeys couldn''t have walked to the Ark
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
www.expelledthemovie.com
Posted by libagenda at 01:32 PM : May 02, 2008
One thing that you might want to keep in mind as you watch this film is the following thought - What SCIENTIFIC evidence are they proving in favour of creationist/ID theories? Not, how they''re bashing evolution, but what exactly explanations they''re providing. It''s fine (actually encouraged since that''s how science works) to try to take potshots at established scientific theories, which evolution definitely is, but if your goal is to show that the prevailing theory is wrong then your theory had better do a superior job of explaining the data.
Creationists never seem to do this, or even grasp this concept.
Posted by libagenda
Apparently it is not even completely clear who wrote what. Hillarious how you believe in such baloney - I can understand why you wont give it up though...you are just too deep into it. And your critical thinking skills were compromised long ago. Scientists laugh in your face saying that evolution is a myth, in reality, you are just too stupid to understand it.
Posted by libagenda
Posing the most difficult scientific questions says absolutely nothing about the validity of your bogus beliefs...do you not see what a poor argument that is? You say, I do not understand X, so God must have done it. It has no substance whatsoever, but you are too stupid to understand that.
Posted by libagenda
I never claimed to know that, little Christian, remember I do not know things I have no evidence for. That question may not even have an answer and may not make sense - who knows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life
Unfortunately for you, your version of creation is not taken in the least seriously by any scientist with a brain whose critical thinking skills were not compromised.
I asked you what your source was for believing in this and you never gave me a direct answer.
So what''''s your source for believing that Jesus probably existed, by your own admission?
Posted by libagenda
I did give you an answer, I said something like
"I find it doubtful that the bible would have been written if he did not exist (which I know is what you want to hear but I am not sure why)"
Then I said "I am even more sure that David Koresh existed, there is a video documentary of the siege on his compound and then it burning down"
Since when do these so called "scientists" represent the final say on what is or is not truth?
Posted by libagenda
Sorry Rick, we have got over 95% (to be conservative) of the scientists on your side, and the rest were indoctrinated as children like you. Remember outside the USA, very very very few scientists believe in God.
"but no scientists who oppose Intelligent Design were interviewed in his book[5] and that the book claims to investigate scientific evidence for a creator, but most of the interviewees have their doctorates in philosophy or theology, rather than science"
You''''re hard to figure out dude. One minute you rip on the Bible, and then the next you say I find it hard to believe that the Bible would''''ve been written if Jesus had not existed.
I think you''''re starting to come around.
Posted by libagenda
Yea, I am pretty sure they probably believed what they were writing too. The origin of the bible is pretty dubious though - can you list the authors by name? Probably not. Even historians debate about that.
You just don''''t know they are out there. Which is another thing this film exposes.
Posted by libagenda
Yea they were also indoctrinated with the theory of gravity - what on earth is your point...scientists look for evidence. You do not. By the way on a side note you would have been amused to see the conversation I had with two American mormon missionaries who approached me on the street the other day here in Germany.
"IF proposes that the scientific explanation of gravitational force cannot explain all aspects of the phenomenon, so credence should be given to the idea that things fall because a higher intelligence is moving them. Furthermore, IF asserts that theories explaining gravity are not internally consistent nor mathematically reconcilable with quantum mechanics, making gravity a "theory in crisis"."
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