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Re: Evidence
« Reply #50 on: April 09, 2013, 12:32:47 AM »
http://tinyurl.com/mvjtqv2 

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Re: ...Unless you're the Mongols
« Reply #51 on: April 09, 2013, 12:34:00 AM »
An informative and sometimes amusing educational resource on world history, including stuff from 15,000 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #52 on: April 09, 2013, 01:05:34 AM »
Watched the first episode, well worth it.
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #53 on: April 09, 2013, 10:00:20 AM »
Can't say all of the humour tickles me, but it keeps it nice and light-hearted.

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #54 on: April 09, 2013, 09:20:50 PM »
Use of c14 dating to confirm the antiquity of early dynastic Egypt;
Oxford University.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2010/100618.html
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« Reply #55 on: April 10, 2013, 11:20:44 PM »
Interesting new finds relating to dino embryo fossils:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130410131216.htm

I wonder if this'll be another "scientists found blood (which wasn't actually blood) in dinosaur bones!" creationist claim...

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #56 on: April 12, 2013, 06:43:13 PM »
A good site overall, this particular Tour Egypt page gives a view into the techniques of pottery dating, essential in forming a reliable chronology.
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/pottery.htm
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #57 on: April 15, 2013, 06:43:14 PM »
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #58 on: April 20, 2013, 10:04:52 PM »
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #59 on: April 23, 2013, 10:53:11 AM »
Just a quick link

http://community.berea.edu/scienceandfaith/essay08.asp

Some interesting and useful stuff in that and the other essays.

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #60 on: April 30, 2013, 12:12:27 AM »
Giza Secret Revealed: How 10,000 Pyramid Builders Got Fed
http://news.yahoo.com/giza-secret-revealed-10-000-pyramid-builders-got-125146214.html
Not by slaves.
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #61 on: May 11, 2013, 06:41:50 PM »
An article about Mernieth, the first (or possibly second? ) female king of Egypt, in the twenty-ninth century BC.
http://www.egyptological.com/2013/04/merneith-the-first-queen-of-egypt-11839
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #62 on: May 20, 2013, 10:22:33 PM »
An intriguing article on the "Shashu/Hapiru", the name of Yahweh in Egyptian, and a putative link to Exodus.
http://tinyurl.com/kgv5zv7
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #63 on: May 24, 2013, 09:13:22 PM »
I thought this was interesting with regard to natural selection 'at work'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22611143



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Re: Evidence
« Reply #64 on: May 31, 2013, 09:12:29 AM »
Interesting story about one of the earliest avian fossils yet found.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22695914

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #65 on: May 31, 2013, 10:39:27 AM »
That's one scary chicken  :)

Good article though.
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #66 on: June 01, 2013, 08:18:09 AM »
...and here's what you've all been waiting for:

http://tinyurl.com/k237ugz


Pliosaurids were a long-lived and cosmopolitan group of marine predators that spanned 110 million years and occupied the upper tiers of marine ecosystems from the Middle Jurassic until the early Late Cretaceous. A well-preserved giant pliosaurid skull from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Dorset, United Kingdom, represents a new species, Pliosaurus kevani.

It's the most powerful predator of all time, and it's called Kevan.
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #67 on: June 03, 2013, 02:47:19 PM »

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #68 on: June 04, 2013, 01:07:43 AM »
When someone finds one made of opal let us know.
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #69 on: June 04, 2013, 07:55:15 AM »
When someone finds one made of opal let us know.

So it's not enough being biggest and best, it has to be made of opal as well?

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« Reply #70 on: June 04, 2013, 08:07:39 AM »
My take on Pliosaurus kevani:
http://plesiosaur.com/plesiosaurs/weymouth.php

"In the case of P.kevani we went over the skill millimetre by millimetre,"

Shouldn't that be "skull"?

That's my proof reading for the day. :D Great read, though. Thanks Richard.

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #71 on: June 04, 2013, 09:28:04 AM »
When someone finds one made of opal let us know.

So it's not enough being biggest and best, it has to be made of opal as well?

Finding it while making your living room bigger would be nice.
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Re: Evidence
« Reply #72 on: June 04, 2013, 10:46:00 AM »
My take on Pliosaurus kevani:
http://plesiosaur.com/plesiosaurs/weymouth.php

"In the case of P.kevani we went over the skill millimetre by millimetre,"

Shouldn't that be "skull"?

That's my proof reading for the day. :D Great read, though. Thanks Richard.

Thanks for the correction.

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #73 on: June 06, 2013, 06:42:22 PM »
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/945794_517861018267261_1624833138_n.jpg

Nice image showing the intermediate stages of turtle evolution.

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Re: Evidence
« Reply #74 on: June 07, 2013, 10:21:21 PM »
An interesting, if slightly simplistic, look at Egyptian prehistory from c500,000bc - 3100bc
http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/2aegypt/
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