Sentences with phrase «what about the dinosaurs»

What about the dinosaurs?

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@ jack3 no you have the right to believe what ever you want, but we might mock you for believing in something that has talking snakes, a story about the world flooding and being able to fit all the animals on the planet on one boat, that believes in magic, that believes a person lived in the belly of a whale, and that people coexisted with dinosaurs all without any actual proof.

What Nye is trying to demonstrate is that in the US, if you go by the statistic in the story, nearly HALF of Americans believe in Adam, Eve and some business about an apple and snake; and that the world is only thousands of years old and that dinosaurs are a cosmic joke from God.

To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.

So what about the punk rejection of 70s dinosaur rock?

I can't prove God's existence just as much as scientist can't prove the big bang... there is evidence of both but to reach a conclusion takes faith... one side leaves hope and the other does not... maybe I'm agnostic too because I don't claim to know everything about why I'm here, I have to have faith... Honestly, I'm sick of the extremes on both sides... the conservative judgmental Christian, who never thought through things as to why the believe what they do (ie Dinosaurs, cavemen, evolution, etc.) and the intellectually arrogant atheist and humanists.

Are you saying that you literally believe what the bible says about creation, that you really believe the earth is only 6,00 years old, or that man has existed for just 6,000 years, that you believe man and dinosaurs shared the earth?

We had a lot of fun talking about the story, about which dinosaur should have which pair of pants, and what shapes they were cutting to decorate their underwear (circles, stars, stripes).

Maybe I should write my * own * status update about my pregnancy / baby's first birthday / toddler's favorite dinosaur and let my friend remained focused on that other thing,» but no, they don't, and that's what makes them so entertaining.

When he turns 16, he'll be sleeping so much that I won't be able to wake him... until then, I've just had to DECIDE that I'm going to enjoy my wee - hours - of - the - morning discussions with him about dinosaurs and rocks... It's hard, but you know what?

Maybe, as my kids say, no one cares about what went on back when we rode our dinosaurs to school.

The research included a variety of topics, from the complex sequence of genetic processes that control when a plant flowers to how three - legged dogs could help robot design and what ostrich anatomy could tell us about dinosaurs.

These shared features, the authors say, suggest that it's time to rethink what we thought we knew about dinosaurs» earliest ancestors.

Some scientists are shaking up the dinosaur family tree and raising questions about which features define the ancient reptiles, Carolyn Gramling reported in «New fossils are redefining what makes a dinosaur» (SN: 3/3/18, p. 18).

What if kids pictured STEM careers like getting to spend every day talking to people who are just as excited about space, dinosaurs or butterflies as they are?

«We can apply those same functional and mechanical principles to dinosaurs to see what they might tell us about niche partitioning,» he explains.

As it happened, in 1998 — not long after you had started to formulate your theory of feather evolution — Chinese paleontologists discovered dinosaurs covered in fuzz, and there was quite a debate about what this stuff was.

What would inevitably follow would be a discussion about the nature of dinosaurs, of birds, of evolution and development, of the relationship of molecular biology to big changes in evolution, of how we know what we know, and whether we were justified in doing what we What would inevitably follow would be a discussion about the nature of dinosaurs, of birds, of evolution and development, of the relationship of molecular biology to big changes in evolution, of how we know what we know, and whether we were justified in doing what we what we know, and whether we were justified in doing what we what we did.

Instead of a lecture, this would be a public science class with questions and challenges about how it was done, what its skin feels like, does it have teeth, what does it eat, how close is it really to a dinosaur?

Psittacosaurus, whose name means «parrot lizard,» was a smallish, horned dinosaur that ran about on two legs eating nuts and seeds in what is now northeastern China.

While McCrea's work focuses on what footprint fossils reveal about behavior, researchers like Julia Day at the University of Cambridge in England have used print data to flesh out the big picture of dinosaur biomechanics.

«What a 66 - million - year old forest fire reveals about the last days of the dinosaurs.»

Early relatives of dinosaurs called dinosauromorphs (two creatures shown at right) as well as early cousins of mammals (at left) lived in what is now South America about 235 million years ago.

His purpose is to learn more about questions like: What organs did dinosaurs have and what were they used What organs did dinosaurs have and what were they used what were they used for?

If we simplify, the scientists did for these proteins what the scientists in Jurassic Park did for dinosaurs: bring ancient forms back to life, so that they can be studied to better understand how complexity in species comes about.

But taking a pile of bones and conjuring up what snarling dinosaurs about to battle each other really looked like involves at best equal parts educated guesswork and complete artistic fancy.

Here's what we know about the evolution of flight: By about 150 million years ago, the forests were filled with flying — or perhaps just gliding — dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, possibly similar to the ancestor of modern birds.

Now another team, analyzing what may be the most intact dinosaur mummy discovered yet, report fresh details about the skin of a hadrosaur nicknamed Dakota, which might have been bigger and moved more quickly than previously thought.

One under Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is thought to have triggered massive volcanism, spewing lava across 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square km) at the Deccan Plateau region of what is now India about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

Find out how it has changed and what the new tree reveals about dinosaurs» origins and evolution.

Although not a practitioner himself of cladistic methods that were in the 1980s and 1990s transforming what we now know about dinosaur descent, he was sympathetic.

Two paleontologists from Portugal have described a new species of giant dinosaur that lived in what is today Europe during the Jurassic period, about 150...

«It was a small feathered dinosaur that lived in what is now China about 160 million years ago.

You may wonder why this disappoints me — what did I expect from a movie about a giant, f*ck - off dinosaur eating skyscrapers?

One wonders what the special features about the making of «The Good Dinosaur» will look like and if any will feature Jack.

If you want to learn more about The Good Dinosaur, be sure to check out our full interview with Peter Sohn and also our extensive feature on what made the movie different from the rest of Pixar's films.

What's coming Aug. 9: «T - Rex» unfortunately isn't about a dinosaur, but it is a feel good documentary about the first U.S. woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.

While there's a lot to like about the notion of running around an open world and killing robot dinosaurs, what I really fell in love with in Horizon was the world, characters, and story that the game told.

After the break, read what he had to say about The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, and even Toy Story 4!

Disney / Pixar first announced The Good Dinosaur (which was untitled at that moment) at the D23 Expo in 2011, as director Bob Peterson briefly spoke about the premise, discussed what inspired him to develop the idea, and showed a single gorgeous piece of concept art.

Pixar's always a good gamble, although The Good Dinosaur's teaser trailers so far have been circumspect about what the movie's actually like, which gives some cause for concern.

When traveling to Pixar for The Good Dinosaur, I was expecting to hear a lot about the research that went into the prehistoric period and how what they learned about dinosaurs influenced the story and flavor of the film.

What might they want to find out about dinosaurs?

Ask children what they already know about dinosaurs.

(E.g. what do we know about dinosaurs?)

Very little of the mainstream media coverage includes specifics about what children at voucher schools are learning about dinosaurs or slaves or gay people.

But what I don't want to hear in connection with this grand old American tradition is a lot of guff about gas - guzzling dinosaurs.

The Huffington Post asked Alara Branwen, coauthor of several dinosaur erotica books, about what she felt the appeal of fantasy dino - sex was.

Claude is quick to walk and talk and by the age of three he is thinking about what he would like to be when he grows up — a cat, or a vet, a dinosaur, a scientist, or... a girl.

What is it about dinosaurs, do you think, that makes them so ripe for this kind of writing?