LINK Revealed: Dinosaur Fossil Hidden for 170 Years due to Religious Concerns
FTA: A fossil of a prehistoric sea dinosaur, the Ichthyosaurus, has finally been revealed after staying hidden for 170 years by God-fearing individuals who didn’t want to make any waves in their community by showing up with 160 million-year-old evidence of life in tow.
Religions have historically not been too open about new scientific findings which clash with established dogma. So when a family in England in 1850 inadvertently unearthed a dinosaur fossil, an Ichthyosaurus, to be precise, they promptly re-buried it because it flew in the face of the religious teachings the family held dear. And the find preceded Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution by a few years, so one can only imagine how mystified these folks were at the sight of this enormous, lizard-like fish skeleton.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.A big flaw of the Bible is that the writers didn't know about dinosaurs or Neanderthals
nicknotes
Level 8
Oct 26, 2019
0
You are tight...the Bible is a translation of a translation...@DaganCurie
Why would they be so afraid?
Dinosaurs bones were put on earth, to test their faith in God.
Castlepaloma
Level 8
Oct 17, 2019
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They could have just read “Not the Bible” which would have explained everything.
Chapter 1 with parts of lines 15 and 16 read:
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...and the dogs ate the dinosaurs and God was pleased.
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And God took the bones from the dinosaurs, and caused them to appear mighty old; and cast he them about the land and the sea. And he took every tiny creature that had not madeth it, and caused them to become fossils; and cast he them about likewise.”
It’s an amusing book that I read as a teenager.
SCJohn
Level 4
Oct 13, 2019
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Which just goes to show that many religious folks understand deep down--or maybe just below the surface--that their beliefs are just pretend. At best, they might (might!) foster in-group cohesiveness, culture, etc. But when push comes to shove, if you are dealing with a REAL problem that you want to REALLY solve, you go with science, medicine, etc., not belief, prayer, the holy book.
greyeyed123
Level 7
Oct 9, 2019
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It's cool the family finally realized what they had and had it preserved.
TrailRider
Level 7
Oct 8, 2019
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So yes - Hide the evidence!
Religion has kept the human race from advancing, and learning for centuries. People were killed for saying the the earth was not the center of the universe. We would be more scientifically advanced as a species if people weren't persecuted, tortured, imprisoned, and killed for having bold new ideas that clashed with religious dogma.
noworry28
Level 8
Oct 8, 2019
6
You are 100% correct with that one.
I have just finished reading the translated 'journals' of the life and discoveries of Hypatia of Alexandria written by her personal Scribe, Hepastius.
I then watched the movie "Agora" based, but a wee bit dramatized, which depicts, quite vividly to say the very least, the events that unfolded when the new Christian Faith went on rampage through Alexandria, raping and slaughtering anyone who refused to be baptized and destroying innumerable works of knowledge, works of art, etc, contained in the Great library of Alexandria as well.
Hypatia herself was charged with being a 'witch' by both the Bishop of Cyrene and the militant arm of the Christian Movement, the Parablani, and was sentenced to STONED to Death in the Serapisium ( converted to a Christian Church) after being stripped naked by those self-same Christian Parablani.
To say that the actions of those 'Christians' were HORRIFIC would be an ENORMOUS understatement at very minimum and one can only wonder at what knowledge was completely lost to human kind with destruction of such a great library and ALL due entirely to Christian Zealotry and religious madness.
I personally recommend to fellow Atheists and Agnostics the movie " Agora" since IT IS based almost ENTIRELY upon FACTS, historical FACTS btw, BUT be well aware, you WILL need a strong stomach.
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