Chinese Fossil May Link Birds and Dinosaurs

[Gilding the Lily]

When you consider the size of our planet and the difficulty in finding anything that small, it is pretty neat when they do stumble upon a fossil remains that have never been seen before.

Dinosaurs remains

Even before this discovery, scientist were starting to uncover evidence that suggests dinosaurs were more closely connected to chicken and ostrich than lizards and alligators. For example, a researcher found proteins preserved in soft tissue—including blood vessels and other connective tissue and perhaps blood cell proteins. These proteins were found to be similar to chicken protein. Not only may this suggest a similarity of Dinosaurs to birds and such, but it also may suggest that collagens last longer than first thought (or that the bones are not quite as old).

 

[nic4us]

First off, Ardi was not carbon dated. Ardi was dated by dating the two adjacent layers of sediment in which it was found.

Second, the bird-dinosaur link has been suspected since the discovery of Archaeopteryx in 1861, 148 years ago.

Third, there is an astrophysist in Jerusalem who says the universe is some 13.8 billion years old, but only from our perspective on earth. If you were to travel back to the origin point of the Big Bang from Earth at the speed of light , the universe would appear to only be 8 days old. 8 days as in 192 hours or 11520 minutes or 691200 seconds. So you are both correct, the universe is both 13.8 billion years old, and 8 days old at the same time.

 

[777 fixer]

I stand by everything I said. You say you are confused because you pair God and religion as one. Most people do but I don't. God made man. Man made religion because man disagrees on how to worship God.
The ruling class has through time used religion to control the masses. They can't do it alone. They need the cooperation of the priest class (with its popes, bishops and cardinals) to instill fear into people.
The word of God is twisted to benefit a few at the expense of most. Adolph Hitler's favorite Bible verse was Romans 13: Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Of course he conveniently forgot to mention that God's laws are to be obeyed above all laws made by man.
Kings have used the church to tell the people that they rule by "Divine Right." John Locke challenged this nonsense; he had to flee Engla8:32nd for Holland to save his neck in 1683.
Latin was the language chosen by the Roman church to conduct business. Why? Because they didn't want the average peasant to be able to to read (those who could) that what was being told and done by the Roman church was not in the Bible.
At one time it was punishable by death to translate the Bible from Latin into a native tongue. William Tyndale dared to translate the Bible into English and was burned at the stake in 1536. Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses of Contention against the corruption of the Catholic church to the door of the Wittenberg Church in German in 1517. He was the first to translate the bible into German. He was luckier than Tyndale and evaded the wrath of Rome.
The phrase calling religion the opiate of the masses was coined by Karl Marx in the mid 1800. Marx was right. Today we can add sports, Hollywood, consumerism, to the list of opiates. Anything to keep the masses distracted from what really goes on in the world.
Here's another Bible quote: John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Spare me the history lesson. You make little sense when you say things like "The Bible teaches you to take care of the poor and weak" then say something like "Religion tells you to let the rich and powerful rob you, because your reward will be in heaven. Good scam. Religion works hand in hand with the state to suppress the masses."

 

[Garfield1966]

Sherman Tank

Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).