Is pgd trying to break the rules and see how far he gets?

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Actually, given that when talking to humans on many occasions that the first thing angels have had to say is, "Do not be afraid" I kind of doubt they always appear as human when talking to humans.

Assuming pgd isn't a troll, I think his(?) latest thread tells us what his(?) problem is. There appears to be a fundamental failure to understand the varieties of the Christian faith, apparently driven by a reliance on websites constructed by radical Charismatic evangelists rather than, say, actually reading the Bible and/or commentaries upon it, then thinking for one's self.

I mean, seriously proposing that a) a man who has publicly spoken of this Christian faith is not, in fact, a Christian, and b) a truly Christian president would be forced to dismantle our entire form of government in the name of his faith? All I can do is shake my head sadly, and hope he(?) eventually comes to his(?) senses.

Oh, and continue making japes in those threads...

PGD is just a pseudo intellectual neurotypical troll that is here to "save the aspies" with his work of fiction like so many other religious fanatics on the internet forums. Just look at his posts and you'll realised what he/she/it is.

At some point they'll realise that if we want fiction, we'll order DVD's online.

Yes, I'd like to order Pandorum, Outlander, Event Horizon, The Last Starfighter, along with a side of The Angry Red Planet, no cheese, and a small Philadelphia Experiment.

Good one!

And then again, do all dragons have wings?

No, but how many Pterosaurs had wings?

By definition, all of them - the name is derived from the Greek pterosauros, or "winged lizard". However, pterosaurs and dragons are not congruent - when dragon legends arose, humans did not have the technology to extract entire fossilized skeletons, even if there were a complete pterosaur skeleton so preserved (a matter of which I am unsure); and when pterosaurs still soared the skies of Earth, humanity's ancestors were still primitive vole-like creatures resembling rodents, skittering around eating eggs and trying not to be noticed by the smaller raptors (anything bigger than a young Utahraptor would probably have ignored the mammals as being too small to bother with).

OTOH, how did dragons speak? After all, the description of the Beast in the Book of Revelation says that it "spake as a dragon"...

Before the study of ancient bones got seriously scientific no one had the slightest concept of what they were.

You provide the presumption, probably based upon lack of data in the fossil record, that there is no contemporaneity. You set up the argument right there, so why bother asking a question of that manner.

No, parakeet, it is based on data in the fossil record. Fossils of pterosaurs, dated by radiocarbon decay and other methods, are shown to be in excess of 65 million years old, while hominids do not appear in the fossil record until 5-6 million years ago (or possibly as early as 8 million, if you choose to count the proto-simians like genus Sahelanthropus. That gives a gap of some 60 million years between the two groups - therefore, no contemporaneity.

The Vowels of the Earth topic

Maybe pgd is ApEgOd. Or Lord of the Apes. (Tarzan?)

Maybe it is a conspiracy.

The fossils of them which are found, first of all couldn't be dated using radiocarbon dating: that is the wrong test.

Secondly, the lack of appearance of them in shallower strata does not mean that there were none of them alive during the times when the strata were formed, but it just means that none of the ones that we know about have been found in those strata. To claim, based upon lack of evidence, that pterosaurs and other flying reptiles, marine reptiles or dinosaurs do not have the possibility of contemporaneity with humankind is to argue based upon ignorance. As such, caelicanths also would not be alive today since they do not appear for vast depths of strata, but however there are many of them in the Indian Ocean. Such finds are called "living fossils", when they are found. They are not proof against evolution, so don't worry. Your sacrosanct bovine is not under attack.

Given the fact that Iamnotaparakeet is currently starting topics every bit as silly as any pdg ever did, should we now turn his question back on him?

Sure, ask the same questions as much as you like. I'll stop making more topics for now, but I reserve the right to be silly.

No, I'm not trying to gauge how literal minded people with Asperger's are, I am a layman and I'm not trying to treat people like guinea pigs but instead trying to break people out of a box of what has become today's version of socially acceptable racism by attempting parody and satire. Also, I am serious in the bizarre nonsensical questions of mine.