And the Bible lets you have sex with your wife's maid and your other wives and concubines.

'Spanish palaeontologists have uncovered a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feather follicles. The researchers, whose findings are published in Nature, located the fossils near Cuenca, central Spain. They named the reptile Concavenator corcovatus, meaning "meat eater from Cuenca with a hump". The type of dinosaur that was found is known as a theropod. …Theropods are a...more

'Spanish palaeontologists have uncovered a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feather follicles.

The researchers, whose findings are published in Nature, located the fossils near Cuenca, central Spain.

They named the reptile Concavenator corcovatus, meaning "meat eater from Cuenca with a hump". The type of dinosaur that was found is known as a theropod. …Theropods are a very important group of dinosaurs because it is from this group that birds are known to originate. Most theropods, like the one found in Spain, are meat-eaters, though some were omnivores.

"They are a very important group of dinosaurs because within this group there are the birds. This world would not be the same without birds. Birds are really a kind of specialised winged and flying theropod dinosaur," said Professor Jose Sanz of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid--By Katie Alcock Science reporter, BBC Newsless

FRom the BBC science report "Linhenykus monodactylus weighed no more than a large parrot and was found in sediments between 84 and 75 million years old. The dinosaur belongs to a sub-branch of the theropods, the dinosaur group which includes T.rex and Velociraptor, and which gave rise to modern birds. Details are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new specie...more

FRom the BBC science report "Linhenykus monodactylus weighed no more than a large parrot and was found in sediments between 84 and 75 million years old.

The dinosaur belongs to a sub-branch of the theropods, the dinosaur group which includes T.rex and Velociraptor, and which gave rise to modern birds.

Details are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The new species was named after the Chinese city of Linhe, Inner Mongolia, near where its fossilised remains was uncovered in what is called the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation.

The international team found a partial skeleton, including bones of the vertebrae, forelimb, hind limbs, and a partial pelvis.

It is part of the Alvarezsauroidea family of theropods, a group of small, long-legged dinosaurs, known for their strange and tiny arms."less

South Africa: New dinosaur transitional species found: Fossilized bones from a new species of dinosaur have been unearthed by paleontologist Adam Yates and his team from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. It appears to be what is commonly called a "missing link." It has features of both two legged herbivores known as prosauropods and four legged herbivores known as sauropods. It ...more

South Africa: New dinosaur transitional species found: Fossilized bones from a new species of dinosaur have been unearthed by paleontologist Adam Yates and his team from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. It appears to be what is commonly called a "missing link." It has features of both two legged herbivores known as prosauropods and four legged herbivores known as sauropods. It was able to move efficiently on either two or four legs.

Dr. Yates doesn't like the term "missing link" because it implies that evolution unfolded in a neat, linear fashion. He said that A. celestae is: "... one of the dinosaurs in a long, smeary continuum. It shows us what we should already have pretty much guessed, which was that evolution was a messy, complicated affair."

Paleobiologist and functional morphologist Matthew Bonnan of Western Illinois University was part of the team. He studies fossil bones to determine how animals moved and lived. He said: "This find is very significant because Aardonyx is a transition animal. It's a close cousin of the sauropod dinosaurs. It gives us a window on what was happening very early on in the evolution of those giants." 6

6. Robyn Dixon, "New dinosaur species my be a missing link," Los Angeles Times, 2009-NOV-12, at: http://www.latimes.com/less

2009-SEP-25: China: Transition fossil found: Several fossils of a profusely feathered dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi, have been found in northeastern China. It stood about 28 cm (11 inches) tall at the hip and is estimated to be between 1 and 11 million years older than Archaeopteryx -- the first known bird. The fossils were found in sediments laid down between 151 and 161 million years ago. I...more

2009-SEP-25: China: Transition fossil found: Several fossils of a profusely feathered dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi, have been found in northeastern China. It stood about 28 cm (11 inches) tall at the hip and is estimated to be between 1 and 11 million years older than Archaeopteryx -- the first known bird. The fossils were found in sediments laid down between 151 and 161 million years ago. It has two types of feathers on its body: One type called "dino-fuzz" covers its head and neck. Shafted feathers, like feathers on modern-day birds -- are on each forelimb, lower leg and foot.

"James M. Clark, a vertebrate paleontologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. said that with so many species with this arrangement, the four-winged configuration must have been an important phase in the evolutionary transition from dinosaurs to birds."less

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Toni Morrison, at her Nobel Lecture on 1993-DEC-07 having received the Nobel Prize for Literature, said: "Oppressive language does more than represent violence. It is violence. It does more than represent the limits of knowledge, it limits knowledge. ... It must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language -- all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas." hide

Steve Gunderson, first openly gay Republican congressman: "...the worst thing that happened to the gay community was the fall of communism...As long as the conservative movement had communism to fight, they could organize and raise their money over that issue. The minute they lost communism, they had to find a new enemy, and that enemy became homosexuality."

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

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My conscience is fine. How is yours?

Sure you can IHS. You can even be a Christian and think there is nothing wrong with ritual cannibalism or really perverse things like life time celibacy. One can be a Christian and believe that the Pope who did so much to protect child molesting priests should be a declared a saint. You can be a Christian and kill in the name of God. Or you can be a Christian and start wars on false information...more

Sure you can IHS. You can even be a Christian and think there is nothing wrong with ritual cannibalism or really perverse things like life time celibacy. One can be a Christian and believe that the Pope who did so much to protect child molesting priests should be a declared a saint. You can be a Christian and kill in the name of God. Or you can be a Christian and start wars on false information and continue to claim it is righteous even after you are exposed. Most gays live quiet ordinary lives. It takes a real religious nut to burn witches, torture heretics, and divide up continents already inhabited without reference to the people living there.less

Others merely gloss over the really awful stuff. The can for instance be horrified at burning a single child to Moloch but have no problem with the slaughter of entire populations of infants supposedly ordered by God. Likewise they have no issue with the patriarchs engaging in plural marriages, having concubines and sex with servants.

It is called research.

So in order to not watch porn you have to have a program that notifies your wife. Nice.

A breakdown by age would be helpful. Just as the number of teens having sex changes from 13 to 17, I suspect that those 15 and under were a higher percentage of the no sex until marriage group. How diverse was the sample in other respects?

The old canard about latex condoms has been around for decades. The virus in semen does not penetrate intact latex condoms.

Our economy is a mess. In response to the shootings in Tucson the legislature and the Governor want less mental health care and more concealed weapons. Getting ready to once again cut education and health care, the magicians want to redirect our attention with another controversy on undocumented folk. The debates and protests will, they hope, draw attention away from their lack of a plan to dea...more

Our economy is a mess. In response to the shootings in Tucson the legislature and the Governor want less mental health care and more concealed weapons. Getting ready to once again cut education and health care, the magicians want to redirect our attention with another controversy on undocumented folk. The debates and protests will, they hope, draw attention away from their lack of a plan to deal with the budget.less

In other words, these scholars don't reflect the Southern Baptist dogma regarding human sexuality.

Well at least Chuck finally had something to say that is sort of negative about those businesses that used their political connections to escape regulatory oversight and played a major part in the economic problems. Of course he also spreads the blame around to the folk who can't hire their own lobbyists and legislators.

Basic reporting is "get the facts." A lot of CP material comes from other sources but they do edit it with a slant. The question whether this office has any real power to do much is not even raised as an issue.