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[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Isotope dating is based on assumptions, but for the presence of a Sky Daddy they just need a piece of paper containing stories which have changed (sometimes quite wildly) over the past centuries. Right, makes perfect sense.

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago

That bolt looks in suspiciously excellent condition.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago
[-] clif@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I ALWAYS forget the name of these little guys even though I see them pretty frequently. Thank you for the reminder... I'll try to commit it to memory this time (no promises)

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago

It's certainly not a spiral thread, but individual rings, which aren't even uniform enough if they were a thread of a bolt or a screw.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

There is no question in my mind that it's a crinoid. I grew up in a town in Southern Indiana that was essentially a giant crinoid bed in the Cambrian. I had so many pieces of crinoid. I even had a "flower," which were really hard to find. Sadly, I lost it.

Here's a bunch of "stems":

Here's a "flower":

I put those words in quotes, because a crinoid is actually an animal, not a plant. Here's a sea lily, one of its modern descendents.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I had no idea those were animals. Fascinating.

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

You see, if you add up the ages of all the characters in the Bible, include exactly 7 total days for the creation of the Earth, you get the only possible answer for the age of the Earth.

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

welp, I feel dumber. I tell you hwhat

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Orrrrr, humans and dinosaurs coexisted for 64,994,000 years.

Checkmate, paleontologists

ninja edit: ...and anthropologists

[-] bobslaede@feddit.dk 4 points 11 months ago

Are we sure these are real humans?

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