Ancient eruption killed off world's sea life: scientists - Yahoo! News »
Posted By Pecossam 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & TechnologyWASHINGTON (AFP) –
A huge volcanic eruption in China some 260 million years ago led to the sudden extermination of marine life clear around the world, British paleontologists announced Thursday, in a report being published this week in the journal Science.
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Pecossam5 months, 1 week ago
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Fellow Propeller-Heads,
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I've read some time ago that 99.9% of all species that have ever inhabited Earth are now extinct; that extinction is in fact the most natural of events on this planet. What do you believe?
From the story: "The mass extinction of ocean life came about because of the collision of fast flowing lava with shallow sea water, which caused a violent explosion at the start of the eruptions and threw huge quantities of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.
"When fast flowing, low viscosity magma meets shallow sea ... there's spectacular explosion producing gigantic clouds of steam," Wignall said -
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 1 week ago
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Well, These scientists seem to be looking for every possible thing there is to explain everything.
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260 million years ago huh ??? They believe they can see that far back in time, yet deny the existence of God ?? Hahahahahahaa.
Well, it is a nice theory that they have. But all their claims have to believed on the faith that they know what they are talking about. How can I have faith in someone who deny's the creator of all things ???-
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smithichie5 months, 1 week ago
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Well, firstly I didn't see the part where any gods were denied in this article. Except maybe the gods that have to stick to a six day schedule...
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Secondly. Geology doesn't have to be taken on faith alone, it can be accepted due to it's predictive abilities. When an oil company wants to find oil they don't hire based on faith, they hire based on results and the people finding oil aren't doing it based on a 6,000 year old Earth.
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