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Animals living the years surrounding the Permian - Triassic extinction help us see how life on earth reacted to that event,» says Rieppel.
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Not exact matches
If humans have any hope of
living forever, we should probably take a hint from the dozens of other
animals on Earth that far outpace our measly 71
years.
«At this moment, most meat
animals, across most of the planet, are raised with the assistance of doses of antibiotics on most days of their
lives: 63,151 tons of antibiotics per
year,» McKenna writes.
Why not defend a «wooden» ship that took 125
years to build and that the
animals that were on it were all that was need for the
animal life we see today?
Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a
year with a couple million
animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7
years to complete, and then sacrificing 14
animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude
living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»
My
life was turned upside down a couple
years back in a situation that led to the dissolution of my marriage, I also work in
animal rescue, which brings me constant anxiety that
animals I know and care about may not make it, and frequently the actual crushing pain of losing them.
The universe is 13.7 billion
years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion
years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism
Life emerged from non-
life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism
Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social
animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism
• For biologists, 1995 was a banner
year, marked by the first discovery in decades of a whole new kind of
animal life.
I can't believe in talking snakes, trees that yield knowledge and eternal
life fruit, people who
lived hundreds of
years, a world wide flood that required 2 of every
animal be stuffed on a boat, a tower god was afraid might reach heaven, unicorns, satyrs, leviathans that god defeats in battle, zombie messiahs and any other myth I missed.
Nothing we do is crazier than talking donkeys, boats full of
animals surviving floods covering the entire planet, people
living for 900 +
years, etc etc etc that you believe and read in your bible (assuming your not agnostic).
«In its 4.6 billion
years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of
life forms: for the last 3.6 billion
years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion
years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion
years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion
years, multicellular
life; for the last 600 million
years, simple
animals; for the last 550 million
years, bilaterians,
animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million
years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million
years, land plants; for the last 400 million
years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million
years, amphibians; for the last 300 million
years, reptiles; for the last 200 million
years, mammals; for the last 150 million
years, birds; for the last 130 million
years, flowers; for the last 60 million
years, the primates, for the last 20 million
years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million
years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000
years, anatomically modern humans.»
Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of
years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of
Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million
years, based on the average longevity of
animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)
The same God who created this universe,
life, and humans, saved Noah's family and the
animals, brought his people out of slavery in Egypt, parted the red sea, fed them for 40
years in the wilderness, gave them the land he promised, and made them a great people.
In recent
years there has been an increasing awareness of the interdependence of all
life and a new respect for the
animal and natural world.
for the last 3.6 billion
years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion
years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion
years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion
years, multicellular
life; for the last 600 million
years, simple
animals; for the last 550 million
years, bilaterians,
animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million
years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million
years, land plants; for the last 400 million
years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million
years, amphibians; for the last 300 million
years, reptiles; for the last 200 million
years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million
years, birds; for the last 130 million
years, flowers; for the last 60 million
years, the primates, for the last 20 million
years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million
years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000
years, anatomically modern humans.
What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion
years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the
living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand
years, and a thousand
years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of
animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.
Why can't you believe that a guy
lived in a fish, a man loaded evey
animal on a boat two - by - two, and that way back 2,000
years ago people
lived 600 - 900
years old?
The surprising move comes after
years of protests from
animal welfare advocates who objected to harsh
living conditions imposed on the
animals by the circus.
It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the universe who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man, who
lived to be 900
years old, built a boat that held two of every
animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?
During these billions of
years life existed without man, and could continue to exist without him, in some ways even better than with him, since man is a pitiless destroyer of many
animal and plant species.
Wow — Wow, hadn't YOU heard, that carbon dating has been tested on
LIVE animals with the «results» indicating dead a million
years.
Yes, the
animal, too, when it has
lived its time may speak the wisdom of the
years and say with truth, «All has its time.
For the talk about the natural changes of human
life over the
years, together with what externally happened there, is not in essence any different from talking of plant or of
animal life.
4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant
life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of
years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea
life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land
animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.
(about 650 to 500 million
years ago) 8s)??? 9s)
animal life appears in the cambrian explosion (about 540 million
years ago) The first Fish appear about 400 million
years ago.
Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent
years; the order in the construction of a flower or of an
animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the
life of man.
Anyone who sends his or her children to a place where people believe that (i) the entire world was created in 7 days about 6,000
years ago, (ii) a guy
lived in a whale, (ii) another guy got two of every
animal on the planet on a boat, (iii) guy rose up from the dead and floated up into the clouds... should be banned from reproducing.
I know that in the last ten or 20 or 30
years, our impact has grown so much that we're changing even those places we don't inhabit — changing the way the weather works, changing the plants and
animals that
live at the poles and deep in the jungle.
They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin,
animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people
lived to be hundreds of
years old a few thousand
years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.
Animals that at any other time of
year might stay away from each other, or even prey on one another, will
live in relative peace and safety near the water hole.
The first great transition took place some five to ten thousand
years ago when men began to domesticate
animals and settled down to an agricultural way of
life.
He develops his argument against atypically atheistic Darwinism around the fact of evolutionary convergence: «The central point is that because organisms arrive repeatedly at the same biological solution... this provides not only a degree of predictability, but more intriguingly points to a deeper structure to
life...» His viewpoint is quite clear: «Metric - sized
animals that are the end - result of many billions of
years of prior stellar and biological evolution may be the only way to allow at least one species to begin its encounter with God.
Many people are under the false impression that carbon dating proves that dinosaurs and other extinct
animals lived millions of
years ago.
Millions of
animals, especially sea
life, dies each
year from plastic pollution.
When I learned of the horrific violence and cruelty that billions of
animals endure each
year to satisfy our tastebuds (not to mention the abuses and mistreatment that factory farm workers endure in order to ensure corporate profit, from being forced to defecate in their pants to operating dangerous equipment without training), I knew that going vegan was the only way for me to
live in a manner that was consistent with my values.
In addition, going vegan reduces one's risk of suffering from diabetes, obesity, and cancer — and saves the
lives of more than 100
animals a
year.
EMB vice president Sieta van Keimpema warned that forced cuts to farm businesses were usually made at the cost of
animal welfare and farmers and their family's
living and working conditions: «Major distortions in competition on the dairy market have, for many
years, led to prices that are significantly lower than inherent production costs,» she said.
Animals Australia
live export investigators have uncovered
animal welfare atrocities during this
year's Festival of Sacrifice.
As a result of
Animals Australia's investigation in Indonesia last year, new government regulations are now in place that have forced the live export industry to transform itself — adhering to new rules that will make exporting live animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrut
Animals Australia's investigation in Indonesia last
year, new government regulations are now in place that have forced the
live export industry to transform itself — adhering to new rules that will make exporting
live animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrut
animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutinised.
The initiative follows on he heels of another report by Oxford academics, which last
year found that levying a tax on
animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a
year would be saved... and 500,000
lives.
I started buying organic meat five
years ago because it is important that
animals have a better
life and
living conditions.
Amid the latest controversy surrounding shipments to the Middle East - ignited by video footage provided to 60 Minutes by
Animals Australia which has an agenda to ban
live exports - federal Labor took the opportunity to attack Barnaby Joyce on agricultural «bipartisanship» saying the former Agriculture Minister rejected it four
years ago.
A statement from the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources - the
live export industry's «independent regulator» - said
Animals Australia provided new information, including video footage, on April 9 this
year, alleging ESCAS breaches in Qatar.
Every
year hundreds of millions of
animals from around the world are exported
live for slaughter.
To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several
years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings,
living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing
animals; and more.
Doubtless, for thousands of
years, man
lived under trees, and ate the half - cooked flesh of wild
animals; and, so long as man
lives on earth, he will have an occasional yearning to return to his originally savage condition.