Scientists have dated “hand” and “foot” prints in Poland that may be the oldest ever found of a four-legged creature. The prints were left in the early Middle Devonian period roughly 400 millions years ago. Of course, for creationists, who insist that the Bible shows that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, these are just muddy footprints and the scientists are off by 394,994,000 years in their calculations.
The prints were left by lizard-like creatures up to 2.5 metres long and found in a former quarry in the Holy Cross Mountains in south-eastern Poland.
The discovery shatters some theories on the transition from water to land and pushing back that time schedule by almost 20 million years.
For those Middle Devonian wannabes, here is a site on the period.
For the full story, click here.
Buddha:
did you mix them before you drank them?
gYGES:
So communism is good for something after all. I am going to share that with all my capitalist friends when they start bitching about it. I can tell then that they are wrong, communism is good for something.
Buddha,
A little history of the Black Lager: It’s a derivative of the Schwarzbier and uses a special debittered Malt, and should be significantly less coffee\chocolate\roasted tasting than a stout or porter. The style as a whole owes it’s existence to the Communist East Germany, which allowed state owned breweries to continue producing less popular regional styles that otherwise would have been lost do to outside competition. It was saved from the fate of the porter (the current porter is a good approximation of the original style which went extinct).
Duh–
I ain’t heard no news about gnus (wildebeests) recently. I was informed some time ago that they experienced a rough ride during the flood because they forgot their dramamine. They never took a boat trip again.
Gyges/Byron/Beer People,
Speaking of the mild hangover:
I had McSorley’s Irish Black Lager and their Pale Ale last night. I thought the Ale was excellent. The Black Lager isn’t bad either, but it’s dark, almost a light bodied stout.
I’d ask “What’s a gnu?”, but the answer would likely be “Not a much”.
Byron–
Yeah, who cares about an ACLU lawyer anyway??? I heard T-Rex never ate another lawyer after that. I guess he left a bad taste in T-Rex’s mouth.
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Noah’s Ark must have been one helluva big boat to carry all those creatures for forty days and forty nights!
“And God said unto Noah… Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt though make in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of… the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side therof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.” (Gen. 6:14-16)
Could the ark described in Genesis hold two of every species of animal? Not likely.
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A Biblical Limerick
Gorillas and camels and gnus
All hurried to line up by twos…
Couldn’t wait to embark
Upon Noah’s new Ark
And relax on a forty-day cruise.
Working on the assumption that the lowest bass note is the root of the chord, and that that chord is the tonic of the key: The universe as a whole is in either Bb Major or minor. Other likely drone notes would be the 4th or the 5th, which would put us in FM\m, or EbM\m.
I’ve been known to put a pedal tone on a flat 9, but the universe just doesn’t seem hip enough to pull that off.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/universe/black_hole_sound.html
Byron,
1) What you didn’t see in Jurassic Park was the scene where the T-Rex puked. Food poisoning is a common occurrence with that kind of dining and attorney’s are known to be only marginally hygienic and riddled with other maladies such as trichinosis and various STD’s. He’s incapable of being an ACLU member for many reasons, the main one being he’s a computer and model generated toy and not a real dinosaur, but I hear he was banned from ACLU meetings involving “an incident at the omelet bar” last time they held a convention. No further details were released at the time of the incident.
2) A4 = 440 Hz. I’m too lazy (and a little hungover) to use a calculator this morning. Long night. I was hoping Gyges just knew off the top of his head.
Elaine,
Though I’ve traveled cross country many times I’ve managed to avoid Kentucky. That museum gives me a reason to avoid it perpetually, besides the idea of a Mint Julep sickens me.
Gyges,
Since first hearing Louis Armstrong I’ve been inclined to always take the word of a musician.
The nominal frequency is approximately 11.5 mHz, or more exactly, 11.5740740e-6 Hz (a period of 86400 s). Unlike a 10811 which delivers a 10 MHz RF output the 11.5 mHz frequency output of Earth is typically detected optically: either shine light onto earth or detect light from earth.
what key is that?
Elaine:
that is one place I sure want to visit, didnt they ever see Jurassic Park? But then the T-Rex only ate a lawyer. I guess they figure he was with the ACLU so it was okay.
Gyges,
But what key is it in?
Mike,
It’s o.k I’m a musician and I think the earth is much much older, at least 9,000 years
Mike S.,
Maybe you should take a trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky so you can be enlightened.
Creation Museum in Kentucky
“The state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and placing them in familiar settings. Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden. Children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden’s Rivers.”
http://creationmuseum.org/
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From Americans United for Separation of Church and State (7/2/2009)
Confusion Museum: Kentucky’s Creationist Facility Is Unhappy Revelation To Scientists
Excerpts:
Since its grand opening in 2007, 750,000 people have passed through its doors to be welcomed by an animatronics display of a young girl feeding a carrot to a squirrel as two dinosaurs stand behind her looking on. (It’s a strange picture considering that the first human lived no less than 65 million years after dinosaurs became extinct!)
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Inside the museum, dinosaurs are depicted as riding in Noah’s ark, and placards explain that it was the biblical flood that broke apart the continents and settled them in their current locations. (Science suggests otherwise, concluding that the ancient supercontinent Pangaea fragmented and shifted over billions of years.)
http://blog.au.org/2009/07/02/confusion-museum-kentuckys-creationist-facility-is-unhappy-revelation-to-scientists/
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Imagine trying to teach science to children raised to believe that the Earth is just 6,000 years old…that people co-existed with dinosaurs…that the “Great Flood” was what caused the continents to break apart?
My brother-in-law knows that the Earth is 6,000 years old. He’s a musician, so he must be right.
Mr. Ed,
That fact may cause me to rethink my beliefs, but first I must go and find a place of God to pray for forgiveness in.
My brother-in-law knows that the Earth is 6,000 years old. He’s a musician, so he must be right.
A test of ignorance, notice I’m not saying stupidity, is an impossible devotion to that which is intrinsically incorrect. Fundamentalists who see the Book of Genesis as historical are blatantly ignorant. A reading of the text alone is fraught with unresolved dichotomy, that to be believed must be ignored, rather than resolved. Then when you get to the overwhelming scientific evidence their response is akin to sticking cotton in their ears and shouting “Nyanh, Nyanh, Nyanh….I can’t here you,” This is before you even get to Evolutionary Theory which they try to dispose of by nipping at the heels of science.
AY–
No, we aren’t descendants of lizards!
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Professor Turley–
The video was excellent. I love reading about discoveries like this.
Here’s an interesting palentological find I read about last year:
Giant Frog Jumps Continents, May Have Eaten Baby Dinosaurs (From ScienceDaily, 2/19/2008)
A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or ‘the frog from Hell’ has been identified by scientists from University College London and Stony Brook University, New York. The discovery of the 70 million year-old fossil frog, of a kind once thought unique to South America, lends weight to a new theory that Madagascar, India and South America were linked until late in the Age of Dinosaurs.
The new frog resembles living Horned toads (ceratophryines or ‘pac-man frogs’) in having a squat body, huge head and wide mouth. With a body length (not counting the legs) of up to 40 cm — longer than a rugby ball – and a weight of around four kilos (10 pounds), it is more than twice the size of its largest living relatives.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080218172307.htm
Now that is cool, Elaine.
SO what are you saying, that Polish people are descendants of Lizards? It all makes sense to me.