Hey, as much as I wanna believe in this, wouldn't this fit awfully well into some creationist's agenda. Pretty easy to make an arguement for a 6,000 year old earth when there's tissue from a T-rex still on the bone, huh?
I'm sure the Creationists could come up with an argument.."Why..of course G** created that specimen just to confuse the scientists" NOTHING that doesn't fit in with their bias's can shake their "faith"..they always have an answer. It'd be cool if the news piece isn't a media over-reaction or misinterpretaion of what the researchers really found.
Well, when you have an all-powerful, all-knowing deity who also has extremely mysterious motives, you really can explain anything away. Because it'll come down to 'so why the heck does G** do all this to us?' and the answer is 'G** moves in mysterious ways.'
Ah, yes. The ol' "Deus moves in mysterious ways" bit. Essentially the coward's brand of agnosticism. Admits that we don't have a clue WTF the Diety is doing, but stops short of proclaiming said Diety unknowable.
If you mean it smells like it might be a hoax by such interests, I'm not so sure. Jack Horner is a paleontologist that even I have heard of just from his regular appearance on the discovery channel (back before it was the home improvement chanel). I think he was the one who said that T-Rexes were likely scavengers, which is why the evolved such small arms.
Most excellent. It was inevitable that they'd find tissue, and yes, they'll likely attempt to do all sorts of things to it. I'm just glad it's a big breakthrough that will likely let us know more about the creature.
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Date: 2005-03-24 11:05 pm (UTC)Wow.
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Date: 2005-03-25 01:38 am (UTC)NOTHING that doesn't fit in with their bias's can shake their "faith"..they always have an answer.
It'd be cool if the news piece isn't a media over-reaction or misinterpretaion of what the researchers really found.
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Date: 2005-03-25 06:38 pm (UTC)A little fiber in the diet will take care of that.
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Date: 2005-03-29 01:56 pm (UTC)Hope that works. :)