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Does anyone notice that the left likes to implement rent control, but not property tax control?
Both policies promote seizure of private property.
It would be better if they did both. Even better if both sides did it.
u/#ridetofreedom
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Dinosaur Eggs Not Birdlike After All BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D.
https://www.icr.org/article/dinosaur-eggs-not-bird-like-after-all/
Prevailing secular theory considers birds to be living dinosaurs, but new science is hatching to support the stark differences between these creatures. The data demonstrate dinosaurs were more likely cold-blooded like all modern reptiles.
Dr. Gregory Erickson of Florida State University and his colleagues from the University of Calgary and the American Museum of Natural History recently published their findings on dinosaur incubation periods in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.1 They found that dinosaur eggs took roughly twice as long to hatch as comparable bird eggs.
How did they determine the exact incubation times? The team discovered that embryonic dinosaurs had incremental layers of von Ebner gland protein in their developing teeth that formed growth lines, much like tree rings.1 But these rings developed during diurnal pulses of mineralization, giving a record of daily growth. These same teeth growth lines are present in today's reptiles and mammals but were never known from dinosaur fossils prior to this Erickson study. The scientists merely counted the growth lines in the fossil teeth to determine embryonic age, conducting their research on two species of dinosaur, Protoceratops andrewsi (a frilled dinosaur) and Hypacrosaurus stebingeri (a duckbill variety).1
It has long been known that "In reptiles incubation is slow, whereas in birds it is remarkably rapid."1 Because many secular scientists assume dinosaurs are similar to extinct birds, they readily infer dinosaurs also had rapid incubation periods.1
These recent findings surprised the scientists. "Our results show unexpectedly slow incubation (2.8 and 5.8 mo[nths]) like those of outgroup reptiles."1 If these dinosaurs were truly bird-like, they should have had incubation periods of about 40 days for Protoceratops and 82 days for Hypacrosaurus.1 But the research team's results calculate out at 83 days and 171 days, respectively—over twice as slow as predicted.1
Why was this so shocking? Because most secular scientists assume dinosaurs were warm-blooded like today's birds. And they go so far as to say that dinosaurs are, in fact, birds.2 "Birds stand out from other egg-laying amniotes [like reptiles] by producing relatively small numbers of large eggs with very short incubation periods (average 11-85 d[ays])."1 In contrast, dinosaurs have been known since the 1920s to typically lay clutches of about 20-30 eggs—a number more in line with modern reptiles—far more than most modern birds.2 And now we see that dinosaurs had long incubation periods, again quite unlike birds.
This latest embryonic research shows that dinosaurs are really more like modern reptiles, having a slower embryonic metabolism than birds. And yet, the authors of this PNAS article seemed to completely side-step the metabolic implications for this discovery.1 The scientific case for warm-blooded dinosaurs is not nearly as strong as many believe—the mounting evidence continues to show that dinosaurs are less like birds and much more like modern reptiles.2,3
The conclusion I made in my book is further bolstered by this new research:
The unwritten side to this metabolism debate is what is truly fascinating. It is actually a war of worldviews. Mainstream, secular science is trying to make dinosaurs into warm-blooded animals because they are trying to make them the evolutionary ancestors of birds. They need dinosaurs to be warm-blooded if they are going to argue ancestry between the two animal groups. It is difficult to have a warm-blooded descendant from a cold-blooded ancestor.2
The Bible says that God created each animal to reproduce after their kind. And science again demonstrates that birds and dinosaurs represent two completely different creature kinds.
References
Erickson, G. M., et al. 2017. Dinosaur incubation periods directly determined from growth-line counts in embryonic teeth show reptilian-grade development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (3): 540-545. DOI: 10.1073/pnas. Clarey, T. 2015. Dinosaurs: Marvels of God's Design. Green Forest, AR. Master Books, 121-124. Available at www.ICR.org/store. Clarey, T. 2016. Dinosaurs Designed Cold-blooded. Acts & Facts. 45 (1): 15. Image credit: A hatchling Protoceratops andrewsi fossil from the Gobi Desert Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. Copyright © 2016. Ellison. Adapted for use in accordance with federal copyright (fair use doctrine) law. Usage by ICR does not imply endorsement of copyright holders.
*Dr. Clarey is Research Associate at the Institute for Creation Research.
I've been saying this for years. Glad it's finally been laid to rest.
is this a "dinosaurs never existed" theory or a "dinosaurs were separate creatures that didn't 'evolve' along with humans" kind of thing? I'm tending towards the former view maybe at times
was in a store today. The store guys at the counter were talking all about Christ and the Bible. My kid was with me and he was sitting at a table while I was wondering around.
Since they were so open about conversations in this store I was genuinely curious about his take on the Vaccines.
Maybe I worded it strange, but I am who I am. He was on something about he (the store clerk) was so keen on something Biblical so I said a statement of my opinion.
"Vaccines were not of God" and "Those who took it were not listening to God"
--I don't think they were ready for that.
The belief some has is that the Vaccine is of god.. which it is. of their god. did not make a huge deal about them shutting down. it was expected. I did tell them we are waiting on them to wake up a little more. haha.
Mentioned each day we can wake up and realize we make/made mistakes but we should learn to not harden our hearts.
Maybe it is me who has hardened his heart and won't accept that the Vaccine was from God? ... naw I doubt it. The other guy at the counter bounced as fast as he could... i was purchasing stuff but I thought for a moment he might chase me out with a bat...
The way they were speaking though was what kind of get me hearing them.. the high and mighty way the one guy used words as-if he was all knowing.. I still think people are going to put on the Cloths of a Christian and start brow beating people and essentially that was what this guy was doing to all his customers inside the place. During the hight of covid he was brow beating most likely too about how glorious he knows that the vaccine is good for you.
hopefully better people than me are in scenarios likes these because I am more of a flip them off and deal with it type of person but with a smile and very calm.
What things of the biblical nature were they saying? Was their doctrine sound?
to call someone dumb is a opinion. have you ever thought that someone wants to be called dumb to mock or fool you? Why do actors exist?
the scale it is being done on is amazing. it is still unfathomable but in the Bible it says there is one that is the Deceiver of Nations.
The logic is super simple. The worst of all the Decievers in my opinion is the Jest Spirit.
Maybe you do not understand that there is verbal and non-verbal communications? One can say God is fake but by works and their fruit we will see they fully believe in Satan in which that is a telling they know God exists.
faith is not seen and neither is wind. Yet there is evidence of both if are able to understand.
what the Deceiver will do is exactly that. They will do a Biblical principle and proclaim where did I say that? haha
? Didn't understand that at all.
apologize. I mixed up two different topics. haha. apologize.
ok. the store today..
he said stuff that made sense for sure. it was Biblical and had merit. If it did not have merit I would have said something else instinctively. For me to say that means I see he had logic but was not able to see there is two sides to logic so I went level 10 on him and said something that he might either laugh at me in the open or rebuke me in the open. It was to gauge him. I can not force anyone to see things the way I do and I do not see all things correctly but I will always ponder my view points. He was like saying things that had foundational merit to him and could be foundational for sure.
I do not want others to be messed up like me but I will always pray for anyone who is a friend or an enemy and I was not getting that from his speaking. It was like he was one sided so I wanted to claim something out there to his one sidedness to see his reaction. To this degree I do not do this ever in public so I would say he has potential.
Up to him to harden his heart or try and discern that he could be wrong..
To try and sum this is up.. I rarely see people like him in the open as he is and that is a good thing. I quickly changed the topic to something super nerdy though to gauge if he can keep up.. he did.
Haha, okay. Thanks for clarifying. That other post went right over my head and I thought, what the heck is he talking about, lol. Now it makes sense why it didn't make sense.
Yeah, some people are welded to their thoughts and we know from Paul (and life experience) that some people just like to hear themselves talk. You might have helped. Sounds like a place you might regularly shop, so maybe you'll see the results in the future. Also, I'm glad you have the attitude to pray for both friends and enemies. That can be hard for some.
Good luck Team USA.
Maybe something for a post but I was thinking a lot of leftists seem to like the psychological idea of "boundaries" and that maybe this could be tied to getting them to support borders
Florida Men Are Truly A Different Breed. LOL
https://x.com/awkwardgoogle/status/2073656622786674873
Here’s something nicely describing how my adoptive country🇨🇭became itself and inspired the Founding Fathers: https://youtu.be/abGkNYBOuwo
I just saw a video today that was supposedly banned on TikTok and called "The Laurel Canyon Rabbit Hole." Evidently a decommissioned military based was called "Wonderland." That made me think about "Alice in Wonderland." Someone said one of our first astronauts landed there, lol.
The movie Wonderland is interesting. 2003.
They have studios there.
Well, that conspiracy theory about the world cup winner didn't work out. Was fun while it lasted, though. https://greatawakening.win/p/1ASt1KjFMh/-conspiracy-theory--fifa-winner-/c/
I wonder how much $ she put on it. She seemed like an over confident nutjob to me.
The Right Reasons Cartoons 😂😂😂
https://www.therightreasons.net/topic/121556-todays-toons-7626/
This tragedy hits home. I love the stuff: Semitruck spills 40,000 pounds of Frank’s Hot Sauce across highway during brutal heatwave. Isabel Keane Sun, July 5, 2026