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125 million year old Flying Squirrel
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/sc...rssnyt&emc=rss
Also note- they say that it's more probable to be 164 million years old, making it older than flying birds. Quote:
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Or like in Jurassic Park where Dr. Allen Grant said that dinosaurs evolved into birds.
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ugh, for the love of crap i hate carbon-14 dating
even though 90% of ppl are gonna flame me for this, the more approximate date of that squirrel is 3000-4000 years ppl don't believe it, but before teh "great flood of noah" things lived for thousands of years, and due to certain aspects of teh world before it flooded, the decay of carbon 14 to carbon 12 was slower, 1000 fold (if not more) my parent's sunday school (at my church, all ages have sunday school o.0) thier teacher had a big lesson on this long story short, that squirrel ain't that old.... if u guys want me to find verses applying to this, pm me, and i will ask the guy |
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Right, but the majority of the scientific world doesn't believe in "The Great Flood," so....so much for that. Great way for the church to have people put stock in creationism over evolution. But that's an arguement for another day. Birds did not evolve from mammals. I have a flying squirrel. They are able to "fly" (glide) because of the extra skin. Birds evolved from reptiles. They are very different from mammals, and in fact only have a four-chambered heart due to convergent evolution. No mammals can actually fly, and birds have many special biological speciaties that allow them to fly, such as hollow bones, a specialized digestive system, etc. By the way, the painting of the mammal they found looks JUST like modern flying squirrels. They're so cute. If that article is accurate, sounds like they haven't changed much. Just like crocodiles (or was it aligators?). The fact that it was found in China is sort of amazing, too, as they are currently native to Canada and the Northern US. Makes perfect sense geographically. (Land bridge and stuff.) Imagine how different birds would look if they actually did evolve from mammals! Hehe. All furry and cute and stuff. |
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Anyway, I'm pretty sure they decided that some dinosaurs definitely flew and birds came from dinosaurs. So either way, mammals didn't really come first. ps Don't try to bring religious issues into things like this. Science says that carbon dating is relatively accurate, so your religious views must be checked at the door and not stated as fact without any evidence. |
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Opps. Heh. |
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Mr. Religious freak pretty much left after his five-post run.
And afro, the point is that in the article there they give a date for it that's before the existence of the first bird, meaning mammals came first. I don't get what you mean there. |
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You really need a LOT of defense when you make claims like that, because otherwise it just looks like a very, very convenient excuse for why things are often dated much older than some Christians believe. |
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Carbon dating is really accurate. It's certainly a hell of a lot more accurate than your grammar will ever be. In fact, Carbon dating methods should never be inaccurate.
Just the record, they didn't date this squirrel with carbon. The half-life isn't long enough; none of these old fossils are dated using carbon dating. They use radiometric dating with other elements, and when you compare the age of rocks around the fossil as well as the state of decay, you can get a very good age estimate. There was also no worldwide flood, at least at the time at when it happened in the bible. Thankfully Egyptian historians started recording back around 3000 BC, so we have nice little pieces of history from people that would have not been around if there was a flood ;) It's a fact that you're just going to have to accept. Anyone that isn't a complete ****head accepts that the earth is over 4 billion years old and the universe some billions of years older than it. A flood wouldn't change a decay constant, either. It's like claiming that the speed of light has been changing which would change WMAP results. No, no it didn't and it's never going to change. Do a little 'real' research yourself before you start spewing your sunday school putrid crud here for others to read. I attended Sunday school as well, which was a complete and udder joke. It doesn't take half a mind to realize it either. |
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There is a shepwreck ontop of a giant hill or mountain and they believe it to be Noah's Ark. I've actually seen pictures of this gigantic ship and theres a good chance it really is Noah's
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Even if it was 'Noah's ark' that does not mean there was a world wide flood nor was there 2 of every animal on this ark. I already proved there was no world wide flood, so great, Noah has a boat and it ended up in a mountain.
Considering how fanatical some people are maybe it was placed there. It wouldn't surprise me at all. Which would just further support the fact people like to believe in things that didn't happen, or they like to blow things out of perportion and tell people things that are half truths. What probably happened is there was a local flood and some guy had a wooden boat and was sailing it across some flooded area or whatever, and people saw it and this whole myth was created. Anyway, this has nothing to do with a really old flying squirrel. |
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Umm, just because an old boat was found on top of a mountain, doesn't mean 1) the whole world was flooded or 2) give a date as to when the boat got there. In fact, from the person who doesn't believe in carbon dating, I'm not sure how they'd be able to TO date the boat, since the flood obviously would've caused enough damage.
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It could be possible. I was learning about something in BIO about evolution...I forget the name. Something along to lines of isolation and the ability to adapt over time.
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