Evidence of Swimming Dinosaur Found

AP - Science ^ | 2005-10-18 | BOB MOEN

[kjam22]

The problem that some science has is similar to the problem with our judiciary. So much of our judiciary is built on it's self. What some court ruled 100 years ago. And it just builds and builds until there is no black and white law. There is no right or wrong... there's just this oligarchy built on itself, and often built on bad suppositions at it's foundation.

Science has done the same thing in many areas. And even Junior's post demonstrates that.

[VadeRetro]

I was being sarcastic. Science's problems are nothing compared to the total misinformation and self-delusion of its critics.

[kjam22]

I'm not a scientist, ......

I thought you were going to say that you stayed at holiday inn last night.....

[Senator Bedfellow]

So basically, you'd rather discuss the poster than the article or the science behind it.

[ClearCase_guy]

My God you're fun!

I'm not a scientist, ... you don't know science.

You kind of remind me of the couch potato who thinks he knows better than the coach how to play the team.

Are you listening to yourself? You're not a scientist, but you know better than others how to do science, because the other people are like people who aren't scientists but think they can tell others how to do science.

You're making me dizzy, man!

[ClearCase_guy]

Please review the ad hominems in Junior's post #11 to me. He just likes to sling insults. I might as well toy with him.

[kjam22]

Science's problem is this..... it can't really prove much about what happend 50,000 years ago. It has a lot of ideas. But a jury wouldn't buy much of it as fact. Because it's just ideas. Informed ideas, but still ideas. It's just short on facts in a lot of areas.

But yet scientists who need that endowment each year just get torqued when people don't buy everything that they want to pass along. At least that's my opinion.

[Junior]

You're not a scientist, but you know better than others how to do science, because the other people are like people who aren't scientists but think they can tell others how to do science.

Unlike you, however, I make an effort to understand science and how it works. You and I are not equal in the "not-scientists" department.

[kjam22]

You're right..... Junior was the one who waded in here with the insults. But he can do it... because he's Junior you know.... and he stayed at holiday inn last night.

[Junior]

It hadn't crossed my mind. Damn! That would've been a great line, too.

[kjam22]

You and I are not equal in the "not-scientists" department.

Tell me you're doing a parody or something..... LOL

[VadeRetro]

Pig-ignorant yahoo-ism's problem is this... it is conducted by pig-ignorant yahoos whose arguments only raise one question: how much of what they say is willful dishonesty and how much sincere but abysmal pig-ignorance?

[Junior]

No parody. It's true. One doesn't need to be a scientist to understand science. It takes a little effort, but the payoff is fantastic. At the very least one won't look like a fool when posting on science threads.

[Senator Bedfellow]

It rather looks like your post #6 was fairly ridiculous, and hence gathered unto itself some ridicule, as such posts are wont to do. YMMV.

[ClearCase_guy]

At the very least one won't look like a fool when posting on science threads.

Study harder.

[kjam22]

At the very least one won't look like a fool when posting on science threads. :).... you mean as opposed to looking like someone who stayed at Holiday Inn last night??

[WKUHilltopper]

Not only that, they've determined it's favorite color is pink and turn offs are other dinos that eat plants. Those amazing prints...

[kjam22]

LOL

[tumblindice]

Good point. A classic example is "global warming".
`Amenable' scientists--those with predilictions wanting research grants, peer approval & recognition--issue predictions, deductions, and they do computer models, and so forth and so on and on and on.
But when all is said and done, all those terms are just euphemisms or `dressed-up' ways of saying, "This is my best guess."
Scientists don't like to admit that their methodology is often just that: guessing, and they can get a little `testy', so that often it isn't enough for them to say, "Here's my research and evidence."

[Junior]

Bubba, this isn't the first thread we've tangled on. Unlike your typical creationist, however, I do not enter each thread tabula rasa. And the first post you made to me on this thread indicated you were going down the same road here as you've done in the past -- to berate with ignorance the findings of researchers.