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B-Rex

November 15, 2009 4:53 PM

Lesley Stahl meets the inspiration for the lead character in the classic film Jurassic Park and reports on how famed dinosaur hunter Jack Horner is shaking up the paleontology world.

Scientist's Dino Findings Making Waves
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by ge556 December 28, 2010 4:09 PM EST
Philosophy provides questions that cannot be answered.

Religion provides answers that cannot be questioned.

TruthTeller
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by lotr4000 December 27, 2010 11:59 AM EST
I'm religious, and I believe in evolution.

Extremists will want either evolution without God, or God without evolution.
But modern science is showing us that they go hand-in-hand.

It isn't one or the other. It's BOTH. Working together.
Science, guided by God.

Fighting over who is right or wrong is outdated in the up and coming generations. You're only showing your age by taking one side or the other.

:)

( I should add, about the whole 6 days thing.... Most people seem to think it was actually six days. It was really thousands of years. But as my religion believes ( Catholic: And if you're Catholic and believe otherwise, then please look it up because you're making the rest of us look bad. ): Who knows how long a single day is to God? It could be a thousand years, or hundreds of thousands. He did create time, after all. Don't we tell our kids nearly everyday that God is capable of anything? God CAN do it, God DID do it, and Evolution is correct. )
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by lotr4000 December 27, 2010 11:55 AM EST
I'm religious, and I believe in evolution.

Extremists will want either evolution without God, or God without evolution.
But modern science is showing us that they go hand-in-hand.

It isn't one or the other. It's BOTH. Working together.
Science, guided by God.

Fighting over who is right or wrong is outdated in the up and coming generations. You're only showing your age by taking one side or the other.

:)

( I should add, about the whole 6 days thing.... Most people seem to think it was actually six days. It was really thousands of years. But as my religion believes ( Catholic: And if you're Catholic and believe otherwise, then please look it up because you're making the rest of us look bad. ): Who knows how long a single day is to God? It could be a thousand years, or hundreds of thousands. He did create time, after all. Don't we tell our kids nearly everyday that God is capable of anything? God CAN do it, God DID do it, and Evolution is correct. )
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by ze-man14 July 7, 2010 6:56 PM EDT
As this indeed can raise many controversies about dinosaurs evolving into modern day species of birds or the world being created in six days time by God. The idea of intelligent design by a divine being requires faith to believe in. The theory (I do stress theory) of evolution does solely depend on chance. The chance of the Big Bang theory when tested mathematically has a small chance of ever happening! Intelligent design only works when faith is applied because Intelligent design cannot be proven by science, or by mathematics. And evolution depends completely on chance! I have realized that the theory of evolution has been stated as a scientific fact. After, I heard of this I noticed that it has never been booted to a scientific law. Why is that? And since it has long been established that Intelligent Design or Creation cannot be proven by science or mathematics, it must be presented with the basis of logical and intellectual reasoning. And by the basis of other formats of thinking. Science and mathematics can be used to "help" or "assist" with intelligent design and/or Creation, but they can never be used to PROVE it. In the end as I have noted for the third or fourth time now, Creation/Intelligent Design require the basis of faith. A religious and moral requirement. Hence why Jesus Christ says "...come and live by faith in me." And evolution solely depends on chance. The chance of Big Bang ever happening, the chance of mutations that would benefit different species of animals, etc.
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by reallyfun2 January 7, 2010 12:46 AM EST
Atheists: Where's your god now?
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by Jewelofatlantis December 1, 2009 12:54 PM EST
What is most amazing is that Science seems to be consistently proving the existence of a Higher Intelligence. According to Ernest Holmes? Metaphysical teachings, Divine Intelligence is the source of all life and all life is recreated in Its image. The resulting living image is both perfect in its construction, and is immortal. This report on B-Rex sways me towards a non-religious opinion that life is eternal and it?s physical construction is perfect. http://www.tarotguidence.com
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by Aaron_B_Butcher November 25, 2009 4:44 PM EST
Whether or not Jesus lived, his message of peace and love is worth following. It was said somewhere that there are more things in heavan and earth than we will ever understand. It doesn't say don't try. I don't even think the bible says we shouldn't try to understand stuff. I'm not afraid of dinosaurs. I'm afraid of the Hadron Super Collider. Now THAT's dangerously mad science!
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by stegokitty November 24, 2009 9:48 PM EST
It's interesting how the obvious answer (if one uses Occam's Razor) to the problem of how soft tissue has survived billions of years is totally ignored, completely avoided, not even mentioned as not only a possibility, but probably the truth -- that the reconstituted tissue is not billions of years old, but rather thousands of years old.
Can you hear the rage boiling now?
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by cbs_bull November 23, 2009 6:16 AM EST
Who created the God then?
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by dktrwu November 21, 2009 9:07 AM EST
An early scientist/philosopher,Aristotle--no Christian Creationist he--observed the celestial bodies and concluded a "Prime Mover". A latter-day scientist, I believe it was Sir Isaac Newton--a Christian Creationist he--kept a mechanical replica of our Solar System in his study. While there, a colleague scientist--no Christian Creationist he--entered and upon seeing the ingenious device move replicas of the earth and moon, and all the other planets, in their precise orbits around the sun, exclaimed, "Marvelous! Who made it?" Without looking up, Sir Isaac said, "Why, no one made it." Becoming angry, his colleague demanded to know at once the artist or sculptor. Sir Isaac responded, "When I ask you, the non believer, who made the REAL solar system, you profess there to be no God, and thus no Maker. Yet, you disbelieve this silly toy cannot make itself?" Now, in all our learned exchange about the "Big Bang", not one scientist to my knowledge has posited even a theory FROM WHENCE CAME the Big Ball of matter that supposedly went Bang umpty-billion years ago. The brilliance of our scientists is God-given, but where is their understanding? They want to crack the egg of matter without even addressing the chicken? God created evolution, thus, their mutual exclusivity is farcical. Evolution did not, cannot, and will not create life--that is God's business. I like this analogy: for one to believe that a single cell spontaneously created itself and then evolved into a human, would be like a tornado ravaging a junkyard, thereby producing a 747. Here is a question for you all:Were ancient people less intelligent than modern people? or, to be more precise: Are modern scientists smarter than, say, Aristotle, Paracelsus, and Newton--who were able to accept the Deity and still do actual science?
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