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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."
I wouldn't be as surprised if they claimed to have found a spaceship and a saddle in the same strata.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaWt03Z3w
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.'
- damn, even dinosaurs are smarter Sarah Palin. Guess they are not retards. They also had backbone, unlike any democrats, were actually honest in what they did, unlike any politician, and they most likely did not take shit from nobody, unlike the US voters.
You can't handle the truth.
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
It'll be before the night is out that some furry fuck draws two of them ass-banging. Probably with multiple breasts and shitting dicknipples.
Oh, noes! A fear of the female body!!! Fear of homosexuals!!! A fear of beards!!!
Oh, wait. No, it's not fear -- a term you clearly picked to deprave those you obviously don't understand.
I mean, this shit sounds like something you'd find the Taliban advocating.
I find this in connection with "Forced religion" bit to be quite amusing. BYU requires that its students be upstanding, moral people (using an "Ecclesiastical Endorsement" to do this). Never do they force others to be their religion, or to be a member of any other. All the school asks is that the students take some religion classes -- no more than you'd get from a catholic school (and some would say much less).
And they certainly don't advocate killing others to enforce what they believe. Feel free to compare them to Islam if you like (and there's some interesting comparisons there) ... but drawing on the Taliban? Come on!
New Type of Dinosaur Unearthed
Knuckle-dragging tea baggers voting for Palin?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
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.