Scientists still can’t settle on what killed the dinosaurs

washingtonpost.com ^ | Nov 24, 2015 | Rachel Feltman

[Berlin_Freeper]

..."We really have no idea."

[4rcane]

I personally like the theory earth gravity changed due to shift in our planet’s orbit

[DesScorp]

And yet for YEARS it was taught as fact that a meteor killed them. Scientific consensus is a consensus until it isn’t.

[PIF]

Only the meteor theory does not work as dinosaurs remained in the fossil record for millions of years after the meteor strike, same for the lava flow theory. So it had to be something else, which is the question.

[PIF]

Gravity shift is a possible cause and has some evidence to support it - right now gravity on Earth is lessening in various places - no one knows why.

No land animal larger than an elephant can exist today, else it would be crushed by its own weight and bones of calcium would be too weak. Yet there was a class of animal which, in many cases, was many times larger than animal today and could not exist under Earth’s current gravity regime.

Another unanswered question is what happened to all the Oxygen? During the rein of the dinos Earth’s atmosphere had a much higher oxygen content - where did it go?

The Paradox of Large Dinosaurs
Applying Science to Understanding Large Dinosaurs:
http://dinosaurtheory.com/big_dinosaur.html

[Texicanus]

Everyone knows they were hunted into extinction by early cavemen like the Flintstones. Fred and Barney loved dinosaur steaks, New York cut, two inches thick. It’s a fact. /s

[Smokin' Joe]

That has been my favorite theory since I was a Geology undergrad, back when the camel wasn’t on the Camel Filters pack.

[Smokin' Joe]

When the plants die, the herbivores die, and when herbivores die, the carnivores die.

True, but furry little scavengers and seed eaters can get by for a while.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Scientist, Mark Armitage, found soft tissue in a dinosaur bone. If the bone was millions of years old, there would be no soft tissue left. See the following article and youtube video.......... http://blog.drwile.com/?p=13176. http://youtu.be/wxk3gts8PuA.

[tacticalogic]

If the bone was millions of years old, there would be no soft tissue left.

Are you able to provide the standard of proof of that assertion that's demanded of evolution?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

tacticalogic, common sense will tell us that tissue does not stay soft for millions of years, it decays. Evolutionists want to say that carbon testing proves that it is millions of years old, yet carbon testing has been proven to be inaccurate. So in dating the soft tissue found, is it logical or scientific to assume it is eons old just because we have been brainwashed by evolutionists to think evolution is more than just a THEORY?

[rbg81]

Science? No pseudo-religion. The authors tipped their hand when they made this statement:

As the Earth edges toward another mass extinction, this one almost certainly caused by the emissions of human industry

[Craftmore]

global warming caused by dinosaur farts.

[central_va]

The science is not settled......

Hmmm. Maybe gloBULL warmist could get a clue from this.

[Wheelman81]

As Dennis Miller likes to say: “I’m blaming it on the gays...”

[tacticalogic]

tacticalogic, common sense will tell us that tissue does not stay soft for millions of years, it decays. Evolutionists want to say that carbon testing proves that it is millions of years old, yet carbon testing has been proven to be inaccurate. So in dating the soft tissue found, is it logical or scientific to assume it is eons old just because we have been brainwashed by evolutionists to think evolution is more than just a THEORY?

Can you please provide a source for that? The half-life of C-14 is less than 6,000 years, and generally considered useless for dating anything beyond about 70,000 years. If there are any "evolutionists" asserting that "carbon testing" proves that it's "millions of years old" I'd like names and sources because they need to be called out on it.

[sphinx]

It was a damn meteor.

It took millions of years for the dinos to die out, so it would have taken a quite remarkable timed-release meteor to do the job. A meteor impact, of course, might well have caused widespread kills and even extinctions at a particular point in time, which in turn could have significantly changed the dynamics for the survivors. Climate change might have figured in. Or new diseases.

I'm old enough to remember the rise of mammals being the conventional explanation. (Maybe it still is, despite all the talk about meteors.) The rise of mammals has the advantage of being a classic Darwinian explanation. Large egg-laying dinosaurs might have been quite vulnerable to smaller, quicker predators. The primary targets would have been the eggs and the hatchlings. How protective were dinosaurs of their nests and their young? Were they like birds? Or lizards? Or both, since birds and lizards are collateral branches of the family. Any beastie that didn't guard its young would be at risk to newly emerging predation, and the biggest creatures, being fewer in numbers, would have been the most vulnerable.

[SunkenCiv]

This article gets the Bull**** Alert. The Chicxulub impact *by itself* was sufficient to kill them off, and they died off in a window so brief that it appears to be instantaneous at the paleontological boundary (probably all were dead in days or weeks at most). There's been a consistent denialism (nyah nyah) by the so-called scientific community of the UK, which is of course irreparably gradualist and Darwinian. Ultimately, natural selection is -- at best -- a force for extinction. Remove the need for it by wiping out at least 75% (or at least 90%, at the Permian-Triassic boundary) via an external force, and no more Darwin. Two list topic, nice!

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[Salamander]

And Thursday you’ll be feasting on another dino-kin.

Yummy.

[Mr. Jeeves]

What makes them so sure the dinosaurs are dead? :)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I guess a comet hitting The Yucatan was too easy an explanation?***

But, back in 1965 Uniformitism was the way everything happened! Not religious catastrophism! Dinosaurs simply evolved out into other animals! (See Time-Life EARLY MAN 1965 edition.)

Then came the BIG BANG theory! followed by ASTROIDS! Catastrophism, once considered religious nonsense, was now the “real” cause of the disappearance of dinosaurs!

In fifty years some other new form of disappearance will be the absolute word in evolution, till some new evolutionary fad comes along.