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To: qam1
The Asteroid killed the Dinos Hypothesis has been debunked for sometime now, except in the media because it just sounds so cool

Not that I have heard of, in fact I just watched a science show on the History Channel last night which stated the evidence is stronger than ever and they even know / speculate where it hit.
39 posted on 05/08/2006 1:19:38 PM PDT by LM_Guy
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To: LM_Guy
Not that I have heard of, in fact I just watched a science show on the History Channel last night which stated the evidence is stronger than ever and they even know / speculate where it hit.

If you saw the same program I saw, then you would have seen both Bob Bakker and Jack Horner (The top 2 bigwigs in palaeontology) come on afterwards and explain why it's bunk.

And the Asteroid hypothesis has been debunked since 1986 when Bob Bakker published The Dinosaur Heresies

Here's two good reads on the subject

Great Balls of Fire: Has Science's Doomsday Scenario bitten the Dust?

Impact Winter in the Global K-T Extinctions: No Definitive Evidences

You won't find too many palaeontologist in favor of the Asteroid hypothesis, the promoters are mostly Geologist, Physicist and Astronomers who like their face time in front of the media (and trips to Cancun) . And unfortunately many of the pro-Asteroid group has behaved worse than the Creationist.

For example see the link I posted about how Iridium is missing from the Chicxulub crater itself!!!!! 

Now the evidence this guy found clearly overwhelmingly debunks the Asteroid theory, yet this guy blatantly just dismisses it.

Quote right from the conclusion in the paper

If we exclude the extremely implausible assumption that the K/T boundary is not related to the Chicxulub impact event,

Like Hey!!!, who says you can do that? That's not science. You can't just exclude conclusions because you don't like it.

Here's another example of Pro-Asteroid scientist playing tricks

49 posted on 05/09/2006 3:03:45 AM 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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