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Where are the dinosaurs?

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is prediction elevated to the level of facts, truth, perfection, in absolutes, for certain, with no possibilities for errors?
No. That's the point with 'probability'. It covers the probabilities.
If a prediction was a truth, that would be a prophecy.
 
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Actually there is a diffrence between looking into the future and prophcies. Looking into the future, like a fortuneteller or horscope is severly punished in the bible. A prophecy is when God interfere with human and the course of history. He commands it will be a certain way, nomatter whether it is Jews not accepting their own messiah (Isaish 53) or Jews being provoked by God to jealousy by those who are not a nation and moved to anger by a foolish nation (as the bible says). Or it can be intervention in political course such as egypt never again rule over his naibours! Simply, God acts the way he has spoken by the prophet, he decides it should end up in a certain way, he commands that it will be the way it is!
 
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i wonder if the dinosaurs use to have debates about when the germs went extinct billions of years before they came around existing
Not before tea time, mind you, that is a barbaric tradition discarded long before the Devonian era.
 
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what and when was the devonian era? i love tea
It was long after the dinosaurs discarded the habit of discussing the germs extinctions but just a tiny bit before the plants developed in size.
The tea was improving along with the plants, thus resulting in improved manners.
 
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ironic that we tend to trust a dinosaur over people who say they saw dinosaurs
Not really! I speak with dinosaurs every day and we watch the Flintstones (non fiction). I live in Dinotopia where we speak with dinosaurs and have tea together! Here is the proof: ( I am the one riding the Triceratops)

 
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Did Dinos have bigger brains then we do, because they say the bigger the brain the more intelligent you are.
No, it's bigger brain compared to your body mass... and even that isn't consistent. For example elephants have huge brains, but huge bodies.

I'm not sure if I'm misremembering something from my childhood, but I think the very large dinosaurs had tiny brains, but a backup brain in their hips. (Those guys probably weren't too bright, that said, they probably didn't need to be).
 
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Did Dinos have bigger brains then we do, because they say the bigger the brain the more intelligent you are.
Intelligence and brain size are only relevant if they offer an advantage in life. Ants have the brain power of approximately 2000 transistors which is hardly comparable to your PCs CPU that contains millions of transistors yet; The ants small brain is sufficient for it to survive! Also predators have more advanced brains than their prey (usually herbivores) simply because if it was the other way round then the predators would be at such a disadvantage that they would soon become extinct from hunger! Function dictates form and the brain to go along with it! Elementary mechanics my dear creationist friend, elementary!
 
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Intelligence and brain size are only relevant if they offer an advantage in life. Ants have the brain power of approximately 2000 transistors which is hardly comparable to your PCs CPU that contains millions of transistors yet;

You can pretty much see anything as a computer.


The ants small brain is sufficient for it to survive!

And a community of ants is sufficient for the nest to survive.


The brain is merely there to convey sensory and motor functions. That dictates.
 
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come now AV is it so hard to Google it?
As a matter of fact, I did Google it ... to see why he was calling it a reptile, when 'lizard' is in the name.

You would think it would be referred primarily as a lizard, and secondarily as a reptile; but science is confusing, isn't it?

That's why we still have 'flying squirrels' ... because science is too careless and doesn't really care about updating their nomenclature, since it would probably be tantamount to admitting they made a mistake.

They they wonder why accidents happen.
 
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