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(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Whale fossils found in the desert pose a mystery. The bowl of petunias next to them just raises even more questions   (physorg.com) divider line 163
More: Interesting, fossils, whales, baleen whales, sperm whales, Atacama Desert, National Museum of Natural History, marine mammals, tusks  
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2011-11-20 09:29:48 AM
Satan, you scamp, you!
 
2011-11-20 09:39:00 AM
I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!
 
2011-11-20 09:41:16 AM
In before "Oh no, not again."
 
2011-11-20 09:45:34 AM
SPACE ALIENS! THE WHALES WERE WORKING WITH THE INVADERS!
 
2011-11-20 09:55:56 AM
Something, something, Final Fantasy the Movie.
 
2011-11-20 10:09:16 AM
In berfore the "See, the whales got "beached" when the flood waters subsided, after Noah landed the Ark of the covenant [rainbows] on mount Arafaht. Because god killed this world of his only begotten aminals. An this only happened just 6000 years ago. Says so in the bibble.
WHAARGARBLE!
YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!"
fundies approach the venue.
 
2011-11-20 10:30:11 AM
I wonder how many people will
1) read the article
2) understand it
 
2011-11-20 10:47:45 AM
img406.imageshack.us
 
2011-11-20 10:48:11 AM
PC LOAD LETTER: I wonder how many people will
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I think the comments thus far have answered your questions.
 
2011-11-20 10:51:23 AM
FTA:
sperm whale skeleton
remains of a now-extinct dolphin that had two walrus-like tusks
extinct aquatic sloth
seabird with a 5-meter (17-foot) wingspan


Very nice finds.
 
2011-11-20 10:56:11 AM
In the blizzard universe everything will have extra horns and tusks, including the ones that already had tusks and horns. I can see them putting tusks on the baleens.
 
2011-11-20 11:42:38 AM
I always wonder what creationists think when they find shark teeth in the creekbed behind their church.

/nice headline
//so long and thanks for all the fish
 
2011-11-20 12:05:18 PM
PC LOAD LETTER: I wonder how many people will
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2) understand it


I've read the article. And it hates me
 
2011-11-20 12:05:56 PM
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There's articles on Fark?
 
CDP [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 12:07:14 PM
dogdaze: I always wonder what creationists think when they find shark teeth in the creekbed behind their church.

/nice headline
//so long and thanks for all the fish


According to evolution, millions of years were necessary for the sedimentary layers to be deposited. It is believed that during the Cretaceous period, much of North America was covered by an inland sea. This sea covered a north to south belt through the middle of North America extending into northwest Canada and south across Mexico. One problem with this idea is that the ocean has never been observed to do anything like this. Sea level would have to rise a great deal to form such an inland sea. A world-wide Flood, however, would form inland "seas" at the beginning before everything was covered and at the end as the water level was dropping. (The water level would drop due to earth movements and evaporation.)

In addition to the Miller Stone, several other interesting fossils were found at the same site. In the same sandstone layer as the shark teeth, one small piece of rock was found which contained coal embedded in the rock. Since coal comes from plant material, especially wood, this is very consistent with finding wood in the rock. Another excellent fossil specimen was found in this same layer--a Ray tooth, such as a Manta Ray. Finely detailed lines are clear on this tooth, making it an very fine fossil of another ocean creature. The author also found a backbone vertebra from a fish at this same site. Many people are surprised to find that fossils of marine creatures are found in Kansas; this is just what one would expect if the whole Earth were covered in a great Judgement.

Link (new window)

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2011-11-20 12:44:12 PM
 
2011-11-20 12:46:13 PM
Mugato: Satan, you scamp, you!

So you are blaming him for the Flood?
 
2011-11-20 12:46:23 PM
Subby, I love you - even if you still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
 
2011-11-20 12:46:29 PM
jack.unix.org.au

/hotter than the air in his head
 
2011-11-20 12:48:39 PM
I find this to be almost infinitely improbable.
 
2011-11-20 12:49:20 PM
Nogale: Subby, I love you - even if you still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

I blame the little pieces of green paper more.
 
2011-11-20 12:49:50 PM
Bravo, subby. Bravo.

/42
 
2011-11-20 12:50:30 PM
The Easter Bunny put them there to test your faith in Ron Jeremy.
 
2011-11-20 12:52:00 PM
not again.
 
2011-11-20 12:52:17 PM
Maybe it is a tsunami deposit, where whales feeding close to shore were washed up? We are talking right along the Pacific Ring of Fire, here.
 
2011-11-20 12:52:30 PM
www.shlutheran.org

Noah knows.
 
2011-11-20 12:52:38 PM
trappedspirit: Mugato: Satan, you scamp, you!

So you are blaming him for the Flood?


No, for planting all the fossils to test man's faith. Duh.
 
2011-11-20 12:53:29 PM
As someone who lives at the bottom of The Great American Ocean (circa 300,000,000 BC - Eastern Montana, where all the dino bones come from) I would happily like to tell the more close-minded members of my Christian religion to STFU and GBTW before the more open-minded of us will have to play 'Science Jeopardy!' with the winner not receiving beatings for making us look stupid.

I expect it will be composed of 3 Southern Baptists.

Answers stated with a thick Southern drawl will also gain a preliminary beating, to occur before the aforementioned accrued ones.
 
2011-11-20 12:57:56 PM
Should I panic?
 
2011-11-20 01:00:56 PM
vudukungfu: In berfore the "See, the whales got "beached" when the flood waters subsided, after Noah landed the Ark of the covenant [rainbows] on mount Arafaht. Because god killed this world of his only begotten aminals. An this only happened just 6000 years ago. Says so in the bibble.
WHAARGARBLE!
YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!"
fundies approach the venue.


I was afraid of that.
 
2011-11-20 01:01:05 PM
LoveRBS: That just raises further questions!

Awesome, gotta love a Futurama reference...
 
2011-11-20 01:02:56 PM
Goosnargh!
 
2011-11-20 01:03:11 PM
Winning headline.
 
2011-11-20 01:04:04 PM
CDP: dogdaze: I always wonder what creationists think when they find shark teeth in the creekbed behind their church.

/nice headline
//so long and thanks for all the fish

According to evolution, geology millions of years were necessary for the sedimentary layers to be deposited.


FTFY and stopped reading there
 
2011-11-20 01:06:26 PM
Suddenly I'm very depressed.
 
2011-11-20 01:06:52 PM
i41.tinypic.com
 
2011-11-20 01:10:58 PM
pu.i.wp.pl
 
2011-11-20 01:11:12 PM
If the little turds didn't try to take the land back, we wouldn't have had to leave those bones there as a warning.
 
2011-11-20 01:12:55 PM
Roquefort:

There's a valley in Antartica that has muffied seal carcasses that are dozens of miles from the sea, really sad.
 
2011-11-20 01:15:08 PM
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42.
 
2011-11-20 01:15:23 PM
PC LOAD LETTER: I wonder how many people will
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Mixolydian Master: jack.unix.org.au
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2011-11-20 01:15:44 PM
whither_apophis: CDP: dogdaze: I always wonder what creationists think when they find shark teeth in the creekbed behind their church.

/nice headline
//so long and thanks for all the fish

According to evolution, geology millions of years were necessary for the sedimentary layers to be deposited.

FTFY and stopped reading there


Another newbie reads a CDP post.
 
2011-11-20 01:20:02 PM
i.imgur.com
 
2011-11-20 01:23:55 PM
+1 for referencing one of the (if not the) best novels in the world, Subs.
 
2011-11-20 01:25:44 PM
Death of Rats: [i.imgur.com image 640x45]

....This screenshot, combined with your fark handle just made me cry a little inside with nerd happiness.

/Death goes "squeak"
 
2011-11-20 01:25:51 PM
www.cognitivedissident.org
 
2011-11-20 01:26:30 PM
PC LOAD LETTER: whither_apophis: CDP: dogdaze: I always wonder what creationists think when they find shark teeth in the creekbed behind their church.

/nice headline
//so long and thanks for all the fish

According to evolution, geology millions of years were necessary for the sedimentary layers to be deposited.

FTFY and stopped reading there

Another newbie reads a CDP post.


Oh no, I'm familiar wit see dee pee, but if you're gonna troll at least get your branches of science right, adds a some style and authenticity
 
2011-11-20 01:27:08 PM
I came to praise you, subby.
 
2011-11-20 01:27:18 PM
Hint: the mystery isn't that they're in the desert; it's that there are so many so close together.
 
2011-11-20 01:31:11 PM
Bravo submitter!

/If farkers become aware of the contents of the article and all the references in the headline, the discussion thread will be immediately be replaced by something even more bizarre.
 
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