Dinosaurs' Rise Was Slow, Not "Lucky Break," New Fossils Suggest

National Geographic News ^ | July 19, 2007 | Susan Brown

[SlowBoat407]

Scientists are constantly looking for a single story that fits all of the evidence. Creationists are looking for all of the evidence that supports a single story.

[Alter Kaker]

This is part of the anti-impact / catastrophic extinction public relations offensive which has been going on for a while.

You think this fossil discovery is part of a public relations offensive? There have been a number of catastrophic extinction events in our planet's history. The emergence of the dinosaurs just doesn't seem to be linked to one.

[Fred Nerks]

http://geoweb.princeton.edu/people/faculty/keller/chicxpage1.html

1. Chicxulub predates the KT boundary and is not the cause for the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: Evidence from NE Mexico

FYI

[SunkenCiv]

I believe there was an FR topic on Keller. The fact is, impacts do occur, they have disastrous and widespread (depending on the energy involved) or planetary effects, and Keller is just regurg’ing Dewey McLean’s claims that volcanism was involved, while denying that the impact did anything. I find it kind of sad.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891257/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/983238/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991929/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1088837/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333931/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707717/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725888/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840136/posts

also mentioned in a post in the blog topic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1607979/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, there have been, and finding fossils from millions of years before a catastrophe which wiped out competition supports just such a link.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1725090/posts

“I’m very happy they have done the analysis based on the literature and come up with the same conclusions that palaeontologists have been preaching all along,” Keller says.

[Fred Nerks]

THANKS...