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23 Nov 2004 05:15:54 AM |
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Dinosaurs |
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
23 November 2004
An amateur palaeontologist has unearthed the biggest dinosaur to be
discovered in the British Isles - and possibly Europe - from a cliff
overlooking an Isle of Wight beach.
Scientists who have just finished analysing the dinosaur's two neck
bones believe it grew to about 66 feet long and weighed up to 50 tons.
It lived around 130 million years ago when Britain was subtropical and
still connected to Europe and North America.
Dinosaur OR Dinosaurs
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20Dinosaur%20OR%20Dinosaurs&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Dinosaur+OR+Dinosaurs&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Dinosaur+OR+Dinosaurs&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_oq=Dinosaur%20Dinosaurs&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Steve Connor
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Steve%20Connor%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Steve+Connor%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Steve+Connor%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Steve%20Connor&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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| User: "DianaC" |
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| Title: Re: Dinosaurs |
23 Nov 2004 08:52:44 AM |
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"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
23 November 2004
Interesting addendum, but how does it 'rewrite' anything?
(grin)
The "Independent" really shouldn't have hired a "National Inquirer" headline
writer. Still, cool story.
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| User: "Eric Gill" |
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23 Nov 2004 03:54:47 PM |
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"DianaC" <dianaiad@vernoyoudontizon.net> wrote in
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"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:18510aff.0411230329.495a8285@posting.google.com...
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story
=585771
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
23 November 2004
Interesting addendum, but how does it 'rewrite' anything?
(grin)
No more so than any additional piece of evidence "rewrites" science. To
science, at least - to a journalist, *every* discovery must be a DRAMATIC
BREAKTHROUGH.
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| User: "Ken Shaw" |
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23 Nov 2004 06:19:20 AM |
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maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Ken
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| User: "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Clayton...but were afraid to ask!" |
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23 Nov 2004 03:47:07 PM |
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"Ken Shaw" <none.of@your.biz> wrote in message
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maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Just recently when Hobbit man was announced, one reporter was saying that it
"shattered Darwin's theory of evolution"!
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| User: "Richard Forrest" |
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24 Nov 2004 03:26:45 AM |
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"Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Clayton...but were afraid to ask!" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com> wrote in message news:<41a3b2e5$0$31870$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
"Ken Shaw" <none.of@your.biz> wrote in message
news:y5God.959799$Gx4.320586@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Just recently when Hobbit man was announced, one reporter was saying that it
"shattered Darwin's theory of evolution"!
I sincerely hope that it wasn't the science reporter of whichever
organ of the media he or she represented.
RF
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| User: "Apostate" |
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24 Nov 2004 04:03:37 PM |
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:26:45 +0000 (UTC), (Richard Forrest) wrote:
"Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Clayton...but were afraid to ask!" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com> wrote in message news:<41a3b2e5$0$31870$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
"Ken Shaw" <none.of@your.biz> wrote in message
news:y5God.959799$Gx4.320586@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Just recently when Hobbit man was announced, one reporter was saying that it
"shattered Darwin's theory of evolution"!
I sincerely hope that it wasn't the science reporter of whichever
organ of the media he or she represented.
RF
<straps self to chair to chair to contain gotten-goat rant>
You jest, right?
I don't know which country's media you follow most, but in the U.S. it is **de rigeur**
for science reporters to get the central point of a science story wrong, wrong, wrong.
As though the idiots who sit on the set and kibbitz about silly make-believe personal
stuff also write the script for the 'science reporter', after getting a 3" x 5" index card
with the raw essentials of the 'science' of the story, written in magic marker.
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/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by Lani_girl, first post; Billions Served!
I doubt, therefore I might be.
For e-mail, hold that tiger!
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| User: "Stanley Friesen" |
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23 Nov 2004 08:51:04 AM |
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Ken Shaw <none.of@your.biz> wrote:
maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Sigh, you beat me to it :-)
But sound bites are what sells, more's the pity.
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The peace of God be with you.
Stanley Friesen
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| User: "The Ghost In The Machine" |
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25 Nov 2004 08:50:17 AM |
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In talk.origins, Stanley Friesen
<sarima@friesen.net>
wrote
on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:51:04 +0000 (UTC)
<ldk6q0hcgtte2in3co8ubspdsf9g84o4v5@4ax.com>:
Ken Shaw <none.of@your.biz> wrote:
maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Sigh, you beat me to it :-)
But sound bites are what sells, more's the pity.
I wa going to put in a joke in here about dino bites but
it was a herbivorous sauropod. :-/
But yeah, gotta love those headline writers.
--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.
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| User: "Tukla Ratte" |
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23 Nov 2004 07:53:08 AM |
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Ken Shaw wrote:
maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Yeah. Just watch the creationists latch onto that headline.
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Tukla, Eater of Theists, Squeaker of Chew Toys
Official Mascot of Alt.Atheism, aa 1347
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| User: "Boikat" |
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23 Nov 2004 08:11:26 AM |
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"Tukla Ratte" <tukla_ratte@tukla.net> wrote in message
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Ken Shaw wrote:
maff wrote:
Dinosaur bones on Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=585
771
I so wish that headline writers for science articles knew what they were
talking about. A 130 myo sauropod in England doesn't rewrite anything.
It might fill in a gap but that's about it.
Yeah. Just watch the creationists latch onto that headline.
I can see it now. Every time the headlines says "New discovery re-writes
evolutionary history", I can just see some poor textbook editor pulling out
his hair, and screaming, "Oh no! Not again! I was just about ready to send
this edition to final printing! Now I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN!!!
AAAARRRRGH!"
And of course, nitwits like McIgnorant squeal with delight, and moronically
proclaim, "See! Evolutionist LIED!!!"
Boikat
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Tukla, Eater of Theists, Squeaker of Chew Toys
Official Mascot of Alt.Atheism, aa 1347
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