'When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs': Scientists discover new species of crocodiles that once dominated Earth (Fox)
Scientists discover new species of crocodiles that once dominated Earth
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Cool.
'When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs'
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Don't worry smalldick, I've still got your #.Smalldog wrote:No Davo, I never went to church camp, but I'll gladly bet all of eternity that I'm totally right, (and that your just a plain old coward).
Oh and it's also mentioned in the book of Job.
"Totally Right"? Wow you sound like someone who's talking way past your pay grade. Maybe you should wise up and not be so fucking righteous, and except that fact that no one KNOWS what the F--k happens next. Unless you've died recently and come back from the grave, go F--k yourself.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -Goethe
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I'm not about to argue a matter of faith, and I'm definitely not about to insult anybody's faith.
The Bible, particularly the old testament, is full of things that make you wonder when you compare them to what we think we know about pre-history. I don't think the world is only 6000 years old, but I think that ancient stories that are often though of as legend are based in if not flat out truths. This stuff was written down by stone age and bronze age men with a significantly different perspective than we have. I doubt they lied. We may or may not properly understand or translate what they wrote, but I doubt the biblical stories were pure fiction. Kind of like the cave drawings that aparently show flying saucers and space men, we may be looking at them all wrong and the artist may have done a poor job of depicting what he saw; but the caveman saw something.
I'm not a Christian literlaist, but I don't think the early books of the bible are pure fantasy or just symbolism. You've got my interest, smalldog. Back to Job's dinosaurs. Can you save me a little reading and give me chapter and verse? Do I need to read the whole book to get the picture. I'd like to read it myself before I agree or disagree that that's what it said.
The theory that references to dragons in antiquity refer to animals we know as dinosaurs has significant merit. What would stone age or bronze aged man think of big bones that didn't go to any animals he saw around him? Imagination would fill in the blanks, and given what dinosaurs seem to have looked like, dragons fits the bill. As far as dinosaurs and men walking the earth together, I don't know about that. Can we over look the possability of animals that may have been rare in antiquity, have since become extinct, and who's remains are yet to be discovered in modern times? New species are occasionaly still found that are alive today. How likely is it that we know every ice age animal? Why wouldn't there be some odd creatures who's remains more or less got eaten up or decayed away?
Like I said, I have to read about these dragons eaten in Job before I speculate much more. What did the book say, how well described were they? Could well be that what was written made sense to them, but got confused by men who had seen fossils and say "this is what they meant".
The Bible, particularly the old testament, is full of things that make you wonder when you compare them to what we think we know about pre-history. I don't think the world is only 6000 years old, but I think that ancient stories that are often though of as legend are based in if not flat out truths. This stuff was written down by stone age and bronze age men with a significantly different perspective than we have. I doubt they lied. We may or may not properly understand or translate what they wrote, but I doubt the biblical stories were pure fiction. Kind of like the cave drawings that aparently show flying saucers and space men, we may be looking at them all wrong and the artist may have done a poor job of depicting what he saw; but the caveman saw something.
I'm not a Christian literlaist, but I don't think the early books of the bible are pure fantasy or just symbolism. You've got my interest, smalldog. Back to Job's dinosaurs. Can you save me a little reading and give me chapter and verse? Do I need to read the whole book to get the picture. I'd like to read it myself before I agree or disagree that that's what it said.
The theory that references to dragons in antiquity refer to animals we know as dinosaurs has significant merit. What would stone age or bronze aged man think of big bones that didn't go to any animals he saw around him? Imagination would fill in the blanks, and given what dinosaurs seem to have looked like, dragons fits the bill. As far as dinosaurs and men walking the earth together, I don't know about that. Can we over look the possability of animals that may have been rare in antiquity, have since become extinct, and who's remains are yet to be discovered in modern times? New species are occasionaly still found that are alive today. How likely is it that we know every ice age animal? Why wouldn't there be some odd creatures who's remains more or less got eaten up or decayed away?
Like I said, I have to read about these dragons eaten in Job before I speculate much more. What did the book say, how well described were they? Could well be that what was written made sense to them, but got confused by men who had seen fossils and say "this is what they meant".