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New Type of Dinosaur Unearthed
MileHighScience writes to mention that a new type of sauropod has been discovered by scientists from Utah's Brigham Young University. Dubbed Abydosaurus mcintoshi, the new addition to the long necked dinosaur family was discovered at Dinosaur National Monument. "The circumstances of its discovery were both unusual and dramatic. The researchers stumbled on four skulls in a quarry at the preserve. Two were still intact. Sauropod skulls are rarely found in the fossil record because the soft tissue from which they are constructed is unlikely to be preserved after death. 'Their heads are built lighter than mammal skulls because they sit way out at the end of very long necks,' Brooks Britt, a BYU paleontologist said in a news release. 'Instead of thick bones fused together, sauropod skulls are made of thin bones bound together by soft tissue.' Of more than 120 known species of sauropods, there have been only eight instances in which scientists have been able to recover intact skulls."
Do they also believe it lived alongside man?
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. --Aldous Huxley
New Type of Dinosaur Unearthed
Knuckle-dragging tea baggers voting for Palin?
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OK, listen. I'm an expert on Mormonism. Why? I did a Google search an hour ago, that's why.
Mormons don't specifically believe in either creationism or evolution. The official position of the Church is that this issue is unresolved, because God has not revealed the answer.
An analogy can be made with birtherism. There are people who consider the certificate of live birth and the old contemporaneous newspaper article as sufficient evidence. Aside from them, there are crazy "creationist" birthers who insist the president was born in Kenya and is a citizen of Kenya, etc.
The "Mormons" would be similar to politicians and pundits who appear on TV and answer "I have no idea" when asked if they believe the president is a citizen.
You could sway me by showing quotes about BYU (and/or the U) that mention how racism is a fundamental principle that guided the schools' founding and mission.
You already gave up the argument. First, you denied that Young founded the school, because he was a racist, hated atheists, and thought his church was morally superior to all others. Then you state that the church founded the school. Why would a church found a school, if not to produce more good members of the church?
A good mormon follows the dogmas of the mormon Church. The dogma of the mormon church in the 1850s included racism, the inherent argument they have the morally superior set of ideals, and as every good bad idea, despises apostasy. Their ideal student product would have all of these attributes. The church today has dropped the racism bit, so they could keep their tax exempt status. I mean, because they received a revelation from God.