Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!

[Jesster]

I got really excited about this when I saw it earlier. Yay feathers!

[vorlon13]

it's just heartbreaking (for the Christers) couldn't God have put in even a single particle of SOMETHING in the bible beyond the ken of the bronze age goat herders he commissioned to write the bible ?

I think Sagan come up with the gist of this, and I'm going to expand on it a bit:

And the Lord saw 137 horsemen riding against the faithful, and then 35 sacred doves of the flock of the thousand descended on the 9 cities of Nineveh, the 9 houses of the priests, and the 9 wells of purity and then Jesus and his disciples, 13 in all, prayed 9 times.



Alex K will figure that out in seconds, if I hadn't come up with it, I might have figured it out in days, and some of the rest of you might get a glimmer on that too.

But woe to the Christers, God missed this trick, and I'm thinking the best explanation for missing that trick (or something like it) is His nonexistence.

[Amarok]

they will just say it's just a dinosaur with feathers just as they say all feathered dinosaurs are just birds with teeth though good luck getting them to explain why god would create such a creature

[Anomalocaris]

Missed in all this gloating about the triumph yet again of 21st century AD science over rather nasty fairy tale from 7th century BC is a discussion about the actual paleontological importance of the find.

[Rev. Rye]

they will just say it's just a dinosaur with feathers just as they say all feathered dinosaurs are just birds with teeth though good luck getting them to explain why god would create such a creature

They probably would, even though their explanation will inevitably boil down to "because fuck you, God works in mysterious ways, that's why!"

[Alex K]

99 million year old dino tail was found preserved in amber.

And it has feathers!

Let's see the creationists explain this one away...


https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dino...r-feathers

All I want to know is when are they gonna clone it?

That's the spirit!

[Amarok]

they will just say it's just a dinosaur with feathers just as they say all feathered dinosaurs are just birds with teeth though good luck getting them to explain why god would create such a creature

They probably would, even though their explanation will inevitably boil down to "because fuck you, God works in mysterious ways, that's why!"

pretty much there is always an excuse to deny the evidence and invent a magic story to make it go away

or translated to creationist "same evidence different conclusion)(Bullshit)

[rado84]

Let's see the creationists explain this one away...

Ignorance mixed with stupidity has never heard about scientific processes like carbon dating. I keep seeing evidence of that all the time on Facebook. In theird minds 6,000 = 99,000,000.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Missed in all this gloating about the triumph yet again of 21st century AD science over rather nasty fairy tale from 7th century BC is a discussion about the actual paleontological importance of the find.

The 15-20 fully certified paleobiologists on the board have already chimed in.

[RoadRunner79]

For reference, here's AiG's response:

https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/f...-in-amber/

We conclude that DIP-V-15103 is a bird, and not a 99-million-year-old theropod dinosaur. This is supported by the discovery of 99-million-year-old bird wings including bones and feathers found by Lida Xing et al. in the same type of Burmese amber as DIP-V-15103.3 I reject the age assigned to these fossils, but it shows that small birds, perhaps juveniles, left evidence of their unquestionably bird-like anatomy in Burmese amber. So where is the evolution?

I'm not a big follower of AIG, but the rest of the article did have some good info as well (if not providing their own tilt to the matter). 

The following seems to take a more conservative approach, in that there is speculation in either case (bird or dinosaur tail).
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2016/12/fea...03354.html

While searching, I also found the following interesting, in some of the speculation over feathered dinosaurs, and where information is extrapolated.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/09/inc...38061.html