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Well, no one can say you're biased, right? (Oh brother!)

I am biased - towards the facts.

You also said, "and I already showed that the nose, ears and tail don't match that of a stegosaur".
Have you ever looked at all the species of dogs we have today?
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No, just no. "Variation" doesn't make entire characteristics completely change and it doesn't make characteristics dinosaurs lacked (like external ears) suddenly appear on one specific species and only one specific species. Your dog analogy fails because they are the result of selective breeding and thus not comparable to dinosaurs.

The dogmatism of naturalism showing it's ugly face again.

Vacuous rhetoric.
 
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No, this is a bad flower joke:

Q: What did one flower say to the other flower?
A: Hey, bud!

Okay, that's bad.
But since I've got you here, here is a leave from the jungle:
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Now the fronds on the leave are regularly spaced.
 
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Okay, that's bad.
But since I've got you here, here is a leave from the jungle:
6be726df1852c2031ae5b29bd1527e62.jpg

Now the fronds on the leave are regularly spaced.
Is this another bad joke?:)

Because if not we're talking about separate leaves, not the fronds on one leaf. The things on it back, if leaves, look like separate leaves, imo.
 
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Is this another bad joke?:)

Because if it not we're talking about separate leaves, not the fronds on one leaf. The things on it back, if leaves, look like separate leaves, imo.

No joke, going back to the topic.
And there is a term in art called 'styilization', you know.
 
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Well as i said to 'Warden-of-the-storm' even a baby studies, but to not be exaggerating, what i mean is that study is a subjective term and i for one have studied and believe that humans and dinosaurs have coexisted.

Right, but only birds. All other dinosaurs, flying reptiles and marine reptiles went extinct 65,000,000 years ago.
 
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Funny place for all those leaves to be carved like that. They're too regularly placed along its back to be assumed to be leaves. If the artist wanted to depict leaves they could have made them look more like leaves and in a more random and spaced out pattern like how leaves in a real jungle look.

Is the myopic focus on the supposed back plates supposed to distract from the fact that:
- the snout is more consistent with a Sumatran rhino
- the ears are more consistent with a Sumatran rhino
- the tail is more consistent with a Sumatran rhino
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That's impossible the Earth is only 5987 years old.

Fascinating claim. Especially because rocks in the Atacama desert have 23,000,000 years worth of Helium-3 build up meaning they have been sitting in the sun for at least 23,000,000 years.
 
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Sorry, I'm not about to take a lecture on accuracy from a proponent of evolution. It's kind of like being lectured about child safety from an abortion doctor.
1. I was not giving a lecture, but making an observation. If I was lecturing you it would be very apparent.

2. The the focus of the observation was not the subject of accuracy. It was acknowledgement of the positive approach you had adopted in making the post, whilst noting that I found your assertions flawed.

3. So, I have politely thanked you for replying to my earlier post.
I have respectfully commented on your effort to aid the OP.
I have praised you for your sincerity.

In response you found it appropriate to make offensive comparisons implicitly linking me with the practice of abortion. This strikes me as a potentially reportable offense. Please do not post in such a manner again.
 
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What horns? There are only two horns on the rhino, one above the nose, the other above and between the eyes... not on the sculpture.

The closest thing to the two tall spikes on the sculptured head are the ears on the rhino.
OK, ears on the rhino, ears on the carving. Still not even remotely anything like the head of a Stegosaurus.
 
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Nope, some people believe that dinosaurs lived with people but the Earth is also very old.
They don't believe that dinosaurs lived with humans based on any rigorous examination of the evidence.
 
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Is the myopic focus on the supposed back plates supposed to distract from the fact that:
- the snout is more consistent with a Sumatran rhino
- the ears are more consistent with a Sumatran rhino
- the tail is more consistent with a Sumatran rhino
?

Not really no. Okay lets talk about the snout and tail:

You say:

- the snout is more consistent with a Sumatran rhino - I agree
- the ears are more consistent with a Sumatran rhino - I agree
- the tail is more consistent with a Sumatran rhino - I disagree, it's more like a stegosaurus'.


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Fascinating claim. Especially because rocks in the Atacama desert have 23,000,000 years worth of Helium-3 build up meaning they have been sitting in the sun for at least 23,000,000 years.

That's assuming rates of absorption over time.

5987 years is from the Bible which Jesus said was accurate.
 
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That's assuming rates of absorption over time.

5987 years is from the Bible which Jesus said was accurate.

Ice cores of the poles show +600.000 winter / summer cycles.

Right, I am "assuming" that in the past, winter lasted for a couple months and not just a day or two.
 
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Ice cores of the poles show +600.000 winter / summer cycles.

Right, I am "assuming" that in the past, winter lasted for a couple months and not just a day or two.

You're assuming they are annual layers when in actual fact they show each fresh snow fall as a separate layer.
 
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You're assuming they are annual layers when in actual fact they show each fresh snow fall as a separate layer.

No, they demonstrably don't. They demonstrably show winter-summer cycles.
 
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