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To: tacticalogic
It isn't a question of drawing something they never saw. It's a question of drawing something they never saw and by pure chance the something turn out to be identical to some known dinosaur type, and their oral traditions describe the creature down to details like a saw-blade back, great spiked tail, and red fur.

The likelihood of that all happening by chance is zero.

53 posted on 07/08/2010 4:23:42 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946

Identical? There are some rough similarities, but a lot of the proportions are all wrong. If it was identical, then it would not be a coincidence. Saying that rough cave drawing is identical to a living triceratops is beyond ridiculous. As far as them saying it had red fur makes it accurate, how do you know that? They could have just as easily said it had purple scales, and you’d have the same evidence to show they were right - none.


56 posted on 07/08/2010 4:37:27 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: wendy1946

“It isn’t a question of drawing something they never saw. It’s a question of drawing something they never saw and by pure chance the something turn out to be identical to some known dinosaur type, and their oral traditions describe the creature down to details like a saw-blade back, great spiked tail, and red fur.
The likelihood of that all happening by chance is zero.”

—What “known dinosaur type” has saw-blades and red fur? Also, the only descriptions I can find that say the creature had “saw-blades” are very recent descriptions by people trying to say it was a stegosaurus. IMO the rock drawing looks far closer to the backward-pointing scales of the alligator in #42 than the enormous saw-blades of the stego in #6, and most descriptions I find simply say “scales”. There’s also no spikes in the tail of the drawing, other than the continuation of the same scales seen on the back, as in the alligator. Mishipishu is usually described as a feline with scales, which hardly sounds like a stego. It sounds like the usual practice of many ancient cultures to depict new creatures by combining features of two or more known creatures, such as with the griffin, or chimaera, or Pegasus, or unicorn, or minotaur. In this case it’s a combination of an alligator and panther.


58 posted on 07/08/2010 6:48:39 AM PDT by goodusername
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