Posted on 05/09/2009 2:45:01 PM PDT by antiunion person
When a scientific principle is common knowledge even in grammar school, you know it has long since crossed the line from theory to established fact. That's the case with dinosaur extinction. Some 65 million years ago as we've all come to know an asteroid struck the earth, sending up a cloud that blocked the sun and cooled the planet. That, in turn, wiped out the dinosaurs and made way for the rise of mammals. The suddenness with which so many species vanished after that time always suggested a single cataclysmic event, and the 1978 discovery of a 112-mile, 65-million-year-old crater off the Yucatán Peninsula near the town of Chicxulub seemed to seal the deal.
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The Most Influential People in the World Stories China's Dinosaur Fossils: Vast, but Are They Real? More Related Florida Bowl Why Are These Frogs Croaking? Darwin Would Have Loved It Now, however, a study in the Journal of the Geological Society throws all that into question. The asteroid impact and dinosaur extinction, say the authors, may not have been simultaneous, instead occurring 300,000 years apart. That's an eyeblink in geologic time, but it's a relevant eyeblink all the same one that occurred at just the right moment in ancient history to send the extinction theory entirely awry. (See pictures of meteors striking the earth.
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The best theory I’ve heard so far was that the earth’s gravity was less then and as it increased the dinosaurs could no longer handle it. As wacky as that sounds it’s far less so than this one or latest theory that claims it was volcanoes that did them in.
They were taxed into extinction by the obamaraptor, the reidosaur, and the flying pelosidactyl.
Noah's flood is what I think it was. At the time Man took up only a small part of the planet. There was plenty left for Dinosaurs to roam, on continents yet to be touched by human footprints.
I’m one of those crazy conservative nut jobs that believes a lot of them died in the flood and the remainder were killed off as humans repopulated...what would give the most meat? Dinosaurs..one of God’s commandments after the flood was to eat them there hamburgers (meat..for the first time)...also If you believe in a literal Noah and Ark then noah certainly wouldn’t take the biggest dinos on board he’d take babies...and yes, there is evidence of dinosaur prints with human fossilized prints...and an obscure and often hidden story of a freshly mounted dinosaur in Italy in the 1560’s...but then again, I could just be a whacko
nope..you take babies..not full grown..that’s why the ark is fully plausible...you would take babies of each kind..not full grown
Uh, beg to differ, but catastrophism used to be the province of kooks and the insane as far as ‘science’ was concerned. In those days, uniformitarianism ruled and the dinosaurs all died out because of slow changes in the environment. That wasn’t too long ago. Velikovsky would be honored by the reactionary resistance to his long ago tendered theory.
Fortunately the cold climates and semiautomatic spears took care of the millions of illegals....however, to this day I cannot eat another dinoburger.
Bush lied, dinosaurs died!
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Even in all caps, these claims were outmoded:
NEW EVIDENCE THAT VOLCANOS KILLED THE DINOSAURS
Red Nova | September 15, 2003
Posted on 09/15/2003 8:48:14 PM PDT by UnklGene
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Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs
Science Daily | 1-3-2008 | Oregon State University
Posted on 01/03/2008 5:16:53 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1947997/posts
Evidence of the ‘Lost World’ — did dinosaurs survive the end Cretaceous extinctions?
The Palaeontological Association | Apr. 28, 2009 | Unknown
Posted on 04/28/2009 12:02:46 PM PDT by decimon
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