Comments | outofsynch: uh oh, the christian's found a 150 Million year old dinasaur

outofsynch

uh oh, the christian's found a 150 Million year old dinasaur

Jun 17, 2008 09:28

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_sc/sci_dinosaur_find_3

my only question is, does this mean their theory that the planet is only 3 K years old has to be re-evaluated? Or is science still faulty w/ their carbon dating?

Then again, it is utah, therefore, mormon. Maybe it just helps perpetuate the theory that they're all crazy. who knows...

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skreidle June 17 2008, 13:52:44 UTC

No, no--God put those fossils there, and made them so they'd appear to be 150 million years old.

I'm pretty sure that, relativity aside, time is time, and you'd biologically age the same over 91 4-day "years" as one 365-day year.

outofsynch June 17 2008, 13:56:04 UTC

"it's like dog-years, but in reverse"

sylvie June 17 2008, 15:22:33 UTC

Three comments: the "young earth" nutjobs are a pretty small minority of Christians in general (I think. I hope.); Mormons aren't technically Christians anyway; and the excavation is being done by actual researchers from an actual museum.

ok, this is mostly b/c i dated a mormon, but still.... outofsynch June 17 2008, 20:05:17 UTC

detail! Minor details!! Yeah, I figured it was reliable science, I just found it funny that it was in Utah of all places...not practically, just superficially ( ... )

Re: ok, this is mostly b/c i dated a mormon, but still.... sylvie June 17 2008, 20:33:59 UTC

Hahaha, yeah, Mormons are great unless you are one and don't want to be. I have several ex-Mormon friends, and one who's a practicing Mormon still.

Mormons see themselves as the extension and perfection of Christianity, in the same way that Christians seem themselves as the extension and perfection of Judaism. Mormons may call themselves Christian, but their beliefs (especially concerning the trinity, one of the core tenets of all of the established Christian branches) are different enough that they don't really fit into that group any more than Christians can be considered just a different sect of Judaism.

Re: ok, this is mostly b/c i dated a mormon, but still.... outofsynch June 17 2008, 20:36:14 UTC

hmm....that gives me something to look into and consider...I'd not heard that take on it before. :)