[Renfield]

A number of links are embedded as citations at the original article.

[Renfield]

Comet-Clovis-catastrophism ping.

[Talisker]

What a mixed-up mess of a report. Someone REALLY doesn’t want readers to be able to follow the logic of either side without a LOT of digging.

[Darksheare]

I can state with one hundred percent conviction that it was NOT me.

[BenLurkin]

More evidence — as if any were needed — why nobody should take this kind of “scientific theory” seriously.

[Quix]

SUNKEN PING

[count-your-change]

I know a Comet carried me to school one day but then a Falcon brought me home. Really “cutting edge and controversial” stuff!

[Let_It_Be_So]

...Yet, the scientists who described the alleged impact in a hallowed U.S. scientific journal refuse to consider the critics’ evidence — insisting they are correct, even though no one can replicate their work: the hallmark of credibility in the scientific world...

 

...“It does feed distrust in science,” says Wallace Broecker, a geochemist at Columbia University and an international dean of climate research. “Those who don’t believe in human-produced global warming grab onto it.”...

 

Amazing intellectual disconnect, aka cognitive dissonance.

[Mike Darancette]

I read the book and it was more compelling than Obama's ghost written crap.

The fight over the impact theory of dinosaur extinction was really nasty.

[BwanaNdege]

Totally impossible for me to follow this argument, either PRO of CON. My brain just does not want to work that hard.

However, there are a whole bunch of craters in SE North Carolina, all with their elliptical axes aligned NW-SE. these are called the Carolina Bays. Most are estimated to be far older than the Clovis people.

http://cintos.org/SaginawManifold/Distal_Ejecta/CarolinaBays/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Bay

[corbe]

I kept thinking ‘Like Sands Through an Hourglass, These are these days of our life’, way to much Drama for a seemingly Scientific document

[finnsheep]

Still a comet or some other major impact into the North
American ice sheet in the area near the Canadian Border might explain the fascinating Carolina Bays which all radiate from that area.

[Scythian]

This is the way it works (and the simple minded fall for it, and that's most of the population):

There are two ways to fool a person into thinking the impossible becomes possible:

1) Push the creation of life so far back in time that life from non-life becomes possible. With billions and billions of years surely two random molecules combined and started this whole thing.

2) Push the creation of life so far out in the universe that life from non-life becomes possible. The universe was seeded with life that began "out there" trillions of miles away. Sounds almost mystical until you realize that #1 above still must hold true.

An egg which came from no bird is no more 'natural' than a bird which had existed from all eternity.

- C. S. Lewis

[CanadianPete]

Hi:

I’ve been somewhat following this theory here on FR for the last few years and find it compelling. Anyways I think someone in some previous FR thread listed a website called The Cosmic Tusk. The url is

http://cosmictusk.com/.

This website posts articles/reports/studies and such that are supportive of the cometary impact hypothesis. The miller-mccune article that is posted here was also posted on that website. Here is the url

http://cosmictusk.com/blast-from-past-yd-team-member-diciplined-by-goldeb-state-geo-board

It also has some comments at the end of it some of which are scathing criticisms of this article. You kind of have to wade through the comments a bit though.

Another interesting website that is linked to at the CosmicTusk is the following

http://craterhunter.wordpress.com

It has an article that I found to be really interesting called

“A Different Kind of Climate catastrophe”

Which can be found here

http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/a-different-kind-of-climate-catastrophe/

It presents an idea of how the cometary impact could have happened. The gist is that the comet broke up into a meteor stream and that the earth collided with it. The iceballs after they entered were converted to high temperature plasmas which scorched the ground like a blowtorch wiping out the North American Megafauna. This would explain the lack of an impact crater for the event. A very interesting read that I hope members will take a look at.

Anyways, I haven’t given up on the cometary impact hypothesis as the cause of the climate change of the Younger Dryas and the extinction of the megafauna.

As for myself i’m just a layman who has developed an interest in this type of stuff from the postings here on FR. To which I want to thank members who post this kind of stuff.

[ShadowAce]

...insisting they are correct, even though no one can replicate their work: the hallmark of credibility in the scientific world.

Sounds like a typical evolutionist.