5000-year old T. Rex!

Dinosaurs are mentioned in the scripture:

"Look at the behemoth,
which I made along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox.
What strength he has in his loins,
what power in the muscles of his belly!
His tail sways like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.
His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like rods of iron.
He ranks first among the works of God,
yet his Maker can approach him with his sword."

(Job 40:15-19)

Heh I seen this at Infidels.

From the article:

Christopher Eldridge, director of New York's Museum of Natural History, raved that the acquisition was "absolutely inconceivable" and "not to be believed." Dr. Harmon Briggs, a Smithsonian Institution paleobiologist, gushed in a phone interview that the discovery of the 5,000-year-old beast was "mind-boggling" and "in defiance of all the human senses."

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To call those quotes "out of context" is an understatement. More of the usual creationist lies.

Well, it does look like those quotes were out of context, but if this article is true, I guess it will set the clock back on our ideas about dinosaur evolution quite a bit!!!

 

(better, DT?)

Gotta love The Onion

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Good point seebs! I've edited my post to remove those spurious ad hominem attacks.

I wonder which dating method they used to fine the age of the TRex? I don't think the link says what they used.

Using advanced dating processes from the cutting edge of biblical paleontology,

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But what method did they use?

Well, the museum staff didn't seem to be concerned over the dating methods. If they were inappropriate, I'm sure that issue would already have been raised. It looks like we are going to have to start re-writing the books...

You mean to say that the decay rates used in dating techniques really are variable? I find it hard to believe. Still, if it's true, this is exciting stuff. It's not just biology and geology on the block here. We'll have to completely rethink physics as well.

I wish I was younger. It would be extraordinary to go to college in light of this new information. Oral Roberts University! Who'd have thought it?

Originally posted by seebs
http://www.theonion.com/onion3901/creationist_museum.html

Looks like some people are going to be eating some crow pretty soon.

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The Onion article is a JOKE (a satire) folks. The only people who will have to "eat crow" are the people who think this article is factual in any respect and try to use it as "evidence" for YEC.

 

gladiatrix, I know that this is a lot to swallow. Up until today, I was convinced that the YEC people were completely wrong. But really, it looks like it was us that were wrong.. Don't kill the messenger. Calling these people a "joke" because they have bad news for us is just wrong.

Originally posted by gladiatrix
The Onion article is a JOKE (a satire) folks. The only people who will have to "eat crow" are the people who think this article is factual in any respect and try to use it as "evidence" for YEC.

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Sounds like sour grapes from someone who can't admit that they were wrong all along and that there really is a God.

yes this is a very excting time. I wish they would expand on the biblical dating methods that they used. Perhaps the next issue of Nature will have a more indepth article on this amazing find.

Next thing you know you will try to convince me that drdino.com is a satire site as well.

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Next thing you know you will try to convince me that drdino.com is a satire site as well.

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This really is one of the more disheartening aspects of this discovery.  I'm going to have to really force myself to admit that Kent Hovind knew what he was talking about all along.  Who'd a thunk it.

-brett

Even if you're sceptical of the museum's curator, the evident agreement by the other experts is pretty hard to ignore.

I hope the dating methods used are discussed in a "reputable" journal. If the peer-reviewed publications won't accept this, then we really will know whether the bias creation scientists have complained about is real. If so, it would be a sad indictment of the scientific community.

However, I trust that scientists are sufficiently open-minded to rethink their position once they are proven wrong.