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Giant Dinosaur Bird Discovered
Cyclist110 writes "The BBC has the story of the discovery, in Inner Mongolia, of a Dinosaur bird twice the size of a man and weighing in at over 3000 lbs. From the article: 'Chinese researchers uncovered the fossilised remains of the flightless giant in the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia. The researchers had originally thought they had found the bones of a tyrannosaur — the group of dinosaurs to which T. rex belongs — due to their large size.'"
If birds evolved from dinosaurs, & we're evolving from apes, that means that things must be getting smaller as they evolve.
What if there's a minimum scale somthing can evolve to, sooner or later we're going to be smaller than the birds, again, & I don't think they're going to take too kindly to what we've been doing to their ancestors.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
These may be the mortal remains of cmdrtaco. Scientists, I call on you give us a conclusive answer.
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This is somewhat on-topic, please bear with me...
First, let's establish that 'Creationists' don't necessarily deny Evolution.
What you're mostly referring to are Evangelical Protestant Bible-only Christians.
'Christian', for 1,500 years meant 'Roman Catholic' (or, after 1,200 years Catholic or Orthodox, very very similar).
After the Reformation, many Christians threw authority out the window and started wondering around in Theology making stuff up as they went along and now we have Bible-only Christians that think every word is LITERALLY (as opposed to LITERALISTICALLY which is what most rational, thinking people read the Bible as) the absolute direct translation of God's will (despite their lose, error-prone translations into English, etc). These people think the Universe was created in precisely 6 24-hour periods and think (I'm not kidding, I heard one say this) that Christ himself use the King James Version to quote scripture. Using LITERAL interpretation, they would also think that 'Raining Cats and Dogs' literally means that canines and felines were falling from the sky.
(again, bear with me, I'm going to bring this back on topic, I swear)
Proper Christianity, that is Christianity that stuck with what Christ intended and with the proper Apostolic Authority and proper scriptural interpretation based on ACCURATE translations of the Bible (i.e. the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek/Russian/Etc Orthodox Church), do NOT interpret the Bible this way, and instead interpret LITERALISTICALY which is to say that 'Raining cats and dogs' has a specific literalistic meaning and is not intended to be interpreted literally.
Now, here we go: True Christians know that God created the Universe according to his own design in a specific fashion in a specific order and that the FULL details are NOT included in Genesis.
It's ENTIRELY possible that when Genesis talks about the 6th day God made animals, it means 'after 400 million years, vertebrate lifeforms evolved from invertebrates'.
The Catholic Church does not specifically deny nor promote Evolution (it's possible there's an even more complete and compelling theory that fleshes out some of the problems with Evolution).
So, please don't lump 'Creationists' (true Authority Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc) in with off-in-the-wilderness Evangelical Christians who are making things up and interpreting the Bible in a theological vacuum.