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Dinosaur Skull Found in Church

By Rossella Lorenzi | Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:42 AM ET

The marble-like balustrade in the Cathedral of Vigevano where the dinosaur skull was found.

Encased in pinkish marble-like slabs supporting a balustrade, this dinosaur — or what’s left of it — has for centuries been the most faithful presence in the Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano, a town about 20 miles from Milan.

“The rock contains what appears to be a horizontal section of a dinosaur’s skull. The image looks like a CT scan, and clearly shows the cranium, the nasal cavities, and numerous teeth,” Andrea Tintori, the University of Milan paleontologist who spotted the fossil near the altar, told Discovery News.

Measuring about 30 cm (11.8 inches), the skull was cut in sections as slabs of the marble-like rock were used to build the Cathedral between 1532 and 1660.

Horizontal section of the dinosaur skull. The cranium, the nasal lobes and numerous teeth are visible.
The calcareous rock in which the dinosaur remains are embedded comes from the rich fossil-bearing site of Mount San Giorgio, which is on the Unesco World Heritage List.

“It is called Broccatello and was mined in Arzo, Switzerland. We know that this type of rock dates geologically to the Lower Jurassic, about 190 million years ago,” Tintori said.

It is not clear what animal the skull belonged to. Tintori hopes to solve the mystery with a three-dimensional reconstruction of the fossilized remains.

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I submit to you the following as proof:

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How can one possibly see a video like this and believe that it was a Creator’s plan to create humans via a 4 billion year “designed” process?  Listen to it several times if you must.  Looking back from the vantage point we have now, it seems obvious that primitive men with a limited understanding of the world would invent God.

What we have learned in the past several thousand years is that we were not created at all, but evolved along a convoluted, haphazard, unpredictable line.  We understand more about our origin now than ever, we shape our living environments, we control the atom, we are driving the earth to it’s next global crisis (and that only took a couple of hundred years).  If we WERE created (say 6,000ish years ago), then why were we created in a fairly primitive state only to be allowed the recent advances to enhance our lives and destroy ourselves over the long haul?  If that were the idea of our genesis, then god naturally knew the outcome, so then… why the hell would he do that?  It makes no sense.

If you want to start to understand the world you live it, watch this video: Carl Sagan – Evolution Explained in Six Minutes.  Then, move on to Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot and other mind-expanding ideas — you’ll see how tiny and insignificant we are in the universe… and how fragile.

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