Birds today are thought to be closely related to dinosaurs. Indeed some say that birds are dinosaurs. The link between them since 1861 has been the fossil of a creature called Archeopteryx, six specimens of which were found and which looks like a dinosaur with flight feathers. Recently a spate of fossils of early birds has been reported, especially in China, which have added considerably to our understanding. Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man by Dr Michael D Magee.
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
Thomas Jefferson 1814
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Birds today are thought to be closely related to dinosaurs. Indeed some say that birds are dinosaurs. The link between them since 1861 has been the fossil of a creature called Archeopteryx, six specimens of which were found and which looks like a dinosaur with flight feathers. Recently a spate of fossils of early birds has been reported, especially in China, which have added considerably to our understanding. Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man by Dr Michael D Magee.
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About 100,000 years ago Homo sapiens sapiens, anatomically modern man, arrived on the scene in Africa. It was to be another 60,000 years before he made a real impact. By 34,000 years ago Neanderthal man was extinct.
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Christians are always impressed by the reported appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of various saints who pass on a message, usually to a child or someone simple, that the local church should be repaired or that people must try harder not to swear. Carl Sagan asks why these admonitions are so prosaic — why not important and prophetic messages recognizable as profound enough to have come only from God. No miraculous vision criticized the torturing and burning of innocent people unjustly, when they had been falsely accused of being witches. Could these supernatural saints not grasp its evil? And why is Mary always ordering the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she appear to the authorities herself? There is simply nothing convincing in any of this unless presumably you have been indoctrinated into it from childhood.
