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To: blam
There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact,

Growing? I don't think so. It's already grown, The evidence has been overwhelmingly against an impact wiping out the Dinosaurs since day 1

according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts,

More & More Epicycles!!!!

Give it up already, I know the big bad dinosaurs getting wiped out by an asteroid just sounds so cool, but there's no such evidence of an impact or impacts having any kind of significant effect.

massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period.

Makes much more sense

Marine sediments drilled from the Chicxulub crater itself, as well as from a site in Texas along the Brazos River, and from outcrops in northeastern Mexico reveal that Chicxulub hit Earth 300,000 years before the mass extinction. Small marine animal microfossils were left virtually unscathed, says Keller........

What the microfossils are saying is that Chicxulub probably aided the demise of the dinosaurs..........

The second part contradicts the 1st,

Gee, these impact scientist are almost as bad as the flood "scientist" 

51 posted on 10/25/2006 4:36:05 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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impact scientist

There aren't enough impact scientists to analyze all the satellite remote sensing data. It would take a lot of supercomputer processor time, but an inventory of craters could be developed. As it is they have gone from zero to something like 500 impact craters in the past century. Seems like each discovery takes some kind of inspiration by a geologist familiar with the locality. There could be a systematic approach applied to the entire massive data record or much of it.

59 posted on 10/25/2006 4:43:55 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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