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.
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See all 45 CommentsI am so excited to finally see someone really creating something that God supposedly created. If we make a dinosaur, isn't it safe to say we are acting GOD-LIKE, or better yet, becoming GOD-LIKE??
This planet was seeded by comet and asteroid impacts. Life was born from heat, water, the right elements and minerals, and the final ingredient...nuclear fusion. That's right, NUCLEAR FUSION. Asteroid and comet impacts on the earth created such intense heat that they created nuclear fusion, in return, mutating and joining elements together under just the right conditions to give this planet that very first spark of life in the form of a single celled organism, whom I like to call Bob #1. As time moves on, so does the growth and evolution of Bob. Bob has lots of other little Bob's and so on and so forth till we end up right here, strange looking creatures with long appendetures and funny faces and etc, etc, ect., in front of our computers reading something interesting.
I understand this is a very loose way of telling everyone that God didn't do any of this, evolution and time did and my opinion is going to hit hard to some people, but hey...the truth hurts and when the next ateroid or comet impact comes it's going to hurt alot more than the gut check I just gave you, but life will continue with or without God. Don't ever forget BOB #1!!
Love and Peace, Jake
Scientists do not get tons of money from the government to go waste time. If you think they have a free ride let me remind you that no chuch, temple, or property(owned by a religious soceity) pays taxes in the US. scientists do help society, and any info not released is probably due to Einstien's regret of the atomic bomb (it was the church going religious ones who used it and tested it near towns). But why is it the scientists who should? Help yourself first.
the tissue evidence does not make the T. rex any younger because no scientist or scientific theory believed/said that this tissue could not exist in an 80myo specimen, only that it has not yet been found because some paleontologists like to keep the bones whole.
oh and ***- mine water off the moon?????? no scientist would ever try that- there is no water on the moon, its a chunk of the earths core- and why mine water when the planet you are on is mostly water? I don't know where you are finding your information about what scientists think, but you need to look somewhere else.
God Bless
1. Presupposed?
You say that the age of the earth is presupposed. The age estimates on the earth and the universe are based on testable models of geology, radiometric dating, physics, cosmology, etc. It has been discovered since the 1700's that the earth is older than 6000-10,000 years based on discoveries by (you won?t believe this) clergymen and priests of that time prior to established evolutionary theory! If you want to talk "presupposed". It is creationism that presupposes the age of the earth based on unnecessary literal translations of Genesis in accordance with Bishop Ussher's faulty supposition of Biblical genealogies being complete. If you read your Bible you will find discrepancies in a number of genealogies. I am by no means claiming the Bible is mistaken, but rather pointing out that this is an established way of ancient cultures listing genealogies. It is well understood historically that ancient cultures did not concern themselves with complete genealogies - only the important ancestors to establish law, rights, and heritance. Study near eastern cultures and biblical text!
2. Soft Tissue in Fossilized Bones and DNA?
You are either purposely misleading the report of the discovery or are misunderstanding the data of the DNA in fossilized bones. THEY DID NOT BREAK OPEN A BONE AND SOFT TISSUE SPILLED OUT! They treated the FOSSILIZED MINERALS with a series of acids to help dissolve away the MINERALS to reveal the remaining structures of original soft tissue. Do some research on fossilization. Paleontologists for years had theorized that if any FOSSILIZED soft tissue was to be found it would be EXACTLY where they found it-in the large bones such as a FEMURS. ? AND NO WHERE in the report did they contradict a million year old sample.
3. Scientific Minded?
What is that? I thought that was using the scientific method to discover the answer-not starting out with an answer and trying to discover the method of proof.
Summary: Look, you can still believe in God and an old earth and evolution if you understand that Genesis was written for an ancient people who had a VERY different understanding of the world around them. If it wasn?t communicated in their ancient culture vernacular they wouldn?t understand the main gist of Genesis. Most creationists are placing a modern spin on an ancient understanding and messing up the context. The context of God putting it all into motion is still a valid point, just not in a literal interpretation.
To say that his once ?controversial? theory is now widely ?accepted? because of some features found on both dinosaurs and birds is not scientific; it is his ?Opinion?.
Science would still not have classified dinosaurs or T-Rex with birds in our current grouping system due to some major structure differences but we are doing so with evolution?
I need much more evidence to believe that a bird is a dinosaur then to believe you found blood that is 50 million years old.
Both speculations are laughable but both are being taught as proven fact with no more then a ?theory? and some one?s opinion. There is no proof and shows like this are proving otherwise. As we still conduct scientific testing we are being bombarded with information and facts that are disproving our evolutionary theories and leaving us with nothing more then ?young earth?.
Someone claimed there was millions of evidences and I can tell you, I have researched these evidences and they are all either disprove theories or they are hoaxes being still taught as fact. ?peppered moth?, ?Piltdown man?, ?Nebraska man?, and ?Neanderthal?. I can list more issues with evolution and old earth then can be given as proof of it.
If we are to be scientific minded we have to keep all unproven theories out of our speculation and let the evidence take us to the actual answers.
And I seriously laugh at all these people in this discussion who are saying that since these tissues cannot survive millions of years, because science said so, it must be a young earth, though science must be wrong on the hundreds of other evidences that point to an old earth.
As for the YEC's, I'll let Dr. Schweitzer speak for herself on them. This quote is from a previous article (and Dr. Schweizter is a Christian): ?They treat you really bad. They twist your words and they manipulate your data.?
Wamda Kohn, Leesburg, FL
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