Yes, I visited Tyrrell a couple of years ago. It was an attraction for me for a trip out West (I am from dinosaur-less Ontario 
). The photo I posted is of a very large ichthyosaur that was excavated from British Columbia. There are thousands of specimens at the museum, covering many species of dinosaurs, see @rsewell .
I can appreciate the entertainment value of a movie like Jurassic Park, but I would rather visit museums to actually learn about dinosaurs.
Agreed. One thing Jurassic Park cannot show you is the sheer beauty of all of these ancient ecosystems working together: which dinosaurs lived together? What was their environment like? What sorts of of planets and non-dinosaurs also made up that ecosystem?
Planets? Only a minor one, and it made a bit of a mess.
Op. I meant “plants.” My phone probably autocorrected to “planets” because I typically look up those more than regular ol’ plants. But, it really is interesting to see how an ecosystem was set up during the Mesozoic Era, and many times it looks like something that would, indeed, be on an alien “planet.”
At least the Jurassic Park films are an advance on the very old images of lizards.
Maybe in out life with Christ in Eternity we will come to see the truth.
Others may disagree but I am with those who believe that something of all life that has ever existed will b represented in the resurrected life with as it is also part of the glory of God and part of salvation of all life and not just humans.
So all that effort to eliminate smallpox was pointless because it’ll be resurrected alongside humanity?
Franciscans Duns Scotus and Bonaventure both wrote that the good in creation will be raised up, so I don’t think diseases will be included. Following Isaiah 11, there will be complete harmony and not kind of conflicts in what exists and raised up and all will be reconciled.
What about parasites? Even if there is no disease, there’d still be leeches, lice, mosquitoes, tapeworms, guinea worms, lung/liver flukes, crabs, scabies mites, fleas, vampire bats and botflies.
How do you avoid conflict with a creature that literally cannot survive without invading your body or sucking your blood?
(Next up would be obligate carnivores)
Although a pretty bad film. I actually loved the way the Tyrannosaur’s jaws clamp together just like a Crocodile in “Primitive War”. That hollow “CLOMP” sound. I found it fitting considering the animal’s apparent bite force. I don’t think that’s been done before.
I think the Earth will still be as it is, plus however many years of evolution and change have taken place by the time Christ returns. Only we will be changed and thus unaffected by things like parasites. It’s gonna be life as usual, minus all the aches, pains, sufferings and death for us. Our job, our work, will be making the planet Eden again. And perhaps even the rest of the cosmos. Perhaps scientists like Roy will even have their labs to work in and eradicate viruses and such, instead of growing them and wasting time on vanity projects. Maybe during the 1000 year reign?
I have no idea how to sensibly respond to some-one who is so ignorant that they think all scientists grow viruses in labs, and that none at all were involved in the massive effort to counter COVID. There is simply no common ground in which to base communication So:
And limbs, and partial body-cavity bones.
Physics takes over from there, so it’s not “completely made up”, much is extrapolated.
1,000,000 BC was great, both the original and the remake.
The dinosaurs coexisting with humans reminds me of the displays in The Ark Encounter.
I beg your pardon?
The Ark Encounter and the associated Creation Museum in Kentucky have displays depicting dinosaurs and humans.
Why does this remind me of a scene from The Lost World, Jurassic Park? That baby dinosaur honestly looks like the any T-Rex of the film!
Why is it that people latch onto dinosaurs and act like they are the only living thing that has existed prior to us? What about dimetrodons, or those weird water bugs of the Cambrian Explosion?
You misunderstand who the individuas are here and their individual motives for participating in this forum. The Amorphous “They” and “You.”
Biologos is not producing scientific content or research, if that’s what you are getting at. It wouldn’t show up in scientific journals.
It is beginning to be mentioned by theologians, though, but probably not in the way you mean.
Biologos exists because Americans have issues understanding and evaluating science, and our cultural-religious undercurrent strengthens American suspicion of science. Biologos is interesting as a theological phenomenon, because it is part of the history of the ways Americans deal with theological assumptions about science. It is part of a wider history of this problem and will only likely be worthy of a footnote, because the issue is so broad. And has been for quite some time. It didn’t start with Scopes, but Scopes was like a flashing neon sign, indicating the American conflict between science and faith.
Possibly, but that doesn’t have anything to do with Roy’s legitimate expectation that you be able to specify any member of the “they” you keep referring to. It’s a reasonable question. Especially as you are so insistent on what “they” are claiming.
Because people came around long after dinosaurs were extinct.
Ken Ham - the head of AIG, the group that founded the Ark Encounter - insists that dinosaurs and humans coexisted.
He has to in order to make his theology work.
Ken Ham doesn’t have any theology, he just has hokum.
What’s hokum to one is theology for another, to steal a metaphor. His science is hokum, but he bases his theology, in particular his soteriology, on the literal interpretation of early Genesis, which is false theology from a Christian viewpoint as I see it, but theology none the less.
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