Early cave paintings do indeed have large animals featured in them. Why the animals are large could be a representation of their actual size... or they might be symbolic, representing their relative importance in cultural matters for the people who painted. There's no rigorously applied perspective, nor any sort of manual describing the style, so it's rather hard to tell why some things are larger than others. We've all kind of assumed that they were drawn large because the animals in question were large, but that doesn't really fit well in all cases. There could be another reason at work. That said, none of them show dinosaurs. We're talking about abnormally large tigers and horses and such.
No, but the person I was responding to was merely mentioning "large animals", which were a subject, and I was hoping to have a tangent about cave painting (which is way more interesting than the Texan Embarrassment).
There are also depictions of rhino, hippo, elephants.... but no dinosaurs. Horse evolution..............
Right, but the subject of cave painting is interesting, and the relative size of the features in cave paintings don't appear to be related necessarily to the physical size of the animals.
Coelacanth live in fairly deep ocean water. That is an unchanging environment. There are no known terrestrial environments that have remained that unchanged. (and you don't know much about coelacanths--they were actually first found off the coast of South Africa in the 1930s. Other populations have been found in that same general area (Madagascar, Comoros, Kenya, Mozambique). In 1999, they found a different related species in Indonesia.
Science works on doubt. Scientists have to be skeptics, it's part of the job description. Science also works in an everchanging world. As we can 'see' things better (through better instruments, etc.), the view of science changes.
Well, define create. If you mean create the actual substance from nothingness, you are right. If you mean take the ingredients and form them together, of course they can. Sand is simply silicon dioxide. They can take silicon and oxygen, and make sand. The same with water. It's fairly easy to take hydrogen and oxygen to make water. I've done it with high school students.
Texas Cretaceous Dinosaurs Big Bend Country Area Lots of dinosaur fossils in the Big Bend National Park. http://www.texas-geology.com/Texas Cretaceous Dinosaurs Big Bend Country Area.html
Yawn. David Prindle. A man who posts on Quote of the Day Athiests blog, mockingly, regarding Texans and given the site...christians. He is repeatedly described as funny by his students at rateyourproffesor.com, and in at least one rating...like Lewis Black the comedian, of whom Mr. Prindle quotes and alludes to beyond just his students. Really? This anti-god, governmental, comedy routine in the classroom, "prof"...devised this "poll". And he did this to which respondents? Exclusively registered voters apparently. Ohhh, wouldn't it just be crackling to see who he actually polled. Are registered voters in Texas predominantly students? I don't suspect so. Possibly a lot of the elderly, those grand parent types from such a different era. Yes. They would be good for his polling I imagine. Maybe registered voters in the controversial areas of Burdick Print, Glen Rose, or maybe the Coffee Print from Stinnet, Texas or even the Paluxy site also near Glen Rose in Texas? Those areas being areas of interest and controversy regarding human foot prints seemingly time framed with dino foot prints in the state of Texas. This guy devised the poll? I think his ethics as a prof are more than suspect, and lecture hall anti-god comedy routines should have an observant eye looking in occasionally. The scientific community has noted increased improper research polling standards, and the government actually has a reporting branch to investigate. http://ori.dhhs.gov/ He is a hack, and someone should tell him Lewis Black stopped being as soon as his hate got in the way.
I am always amused by the discord between evolutionists and creationists. God doesn't wave a wand. Evolution is just another creation of God. God loves physics. Physics is the name of God's toolbox. When these discussions of thousands of years versus millions/billions of years come up, I'm reminded the Bible says: "A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day." In other words, time was not easily understood by people then. Space-time is an essential property of the Universe. But time is not constant; it is variable. We know - for example - that past the event horizon of a black hole - time actually stops. Universe-science wonks who are reading this...you know exactly what I'm talking about. The Bible is ambiguous and contains many metaphors. People didn't have the capacity to understand SO MUCH when it was written. So the word of God was in terms with which the man of the day could cope. Just my worth-
I used to like him as well Margot. His rage rants got stale, not unlike a lot of that particular type of humour. Carlin seemed to always keep a fresh edge though. One of the few.
I decided a long time ago that anyone dumb enough not to believe in evolution, isn't smart enough to be the President of my country. This stuff is just plain idiotic and stifles education.
Um....... the lack a standard of evidence and far more likely to vote for people who also lack a standard of evidence. Hence the ability for people like Bush to fill the position of president, while someone like Sam Harris would have a very small chance. Denying homosexuals equal rights and cutting stem cell research on religious grounds are excellent examples.
That is very different from a T. Rex...... do you have anything else to add? Or simply noting the scientifically accepted notion that birds decended from dinosaurs?
9/11 was not an inside job, Muslims are not our friends, and dinosaurs died 65,000,000[/i] years before the rise of homosapians. I don't see how any of the above are difficult to accept.
Dragons are ubiquitous throughout virtually every ancient civilization, in both artwork and literature, we don't assume they existed because someone drew them.
