Posted on 01/02/2009 7:44:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Have you a better explanation?
But I do think it's reasonable to believe a collision between a comet or meteor, and Earth, would cause a great catastrophe. And that we shouldn't bury our heads in the sand and pretend it can't happen.
Seems to me we constitutionalists could see a sort of weapons program -targeting comets- as a constitutionally correct use of taxpayers money !
Sadly, our tax money that used to be directed into such programs (sneeringly called "Star Wars" by the Left) will diverted by Obama into idiotic anti-"Climate Change" boondoggles.
I could have sworn it was the ancestors of Bush.
Not necessarily. I just think it odd that 4,000+ years later these same types of animals were still around LA despite what this article suggests above. It doesn't seem to make sense overall.
You would think the authors would have at the very least check when exactly these animals actually went extinct before proclaiming that a comet wiped them out 1000's of years before they really did die out.Over many thousands of years the mammoths were fine. Small populations endured in a few places (including some dwarf variety, which was around perhaps as late as a couple of thousand years ago in Siberia), but almost all of those alive at the time of the bombardments were killed off quite precipitously.
It's "studies" like this that give Creationist ammo against all scienceCreationists saddle on anything that seems to support their cause, even if it's false, though they sometimes (if the info gets out) dump it on its ass as if nothing is wrong, a criticism they nearly universally (and justly) raise against Darwinists for doing the same thing.
"Heads I Win, Tails You Lose."More often though, Creationists regurgitate the same bogus stuff, along with nonsequiturs, such as "more and more epicycles".
Coincidentally, where ever humans arrived, comets/asteroids then began to hit where these new humans were and over 100 to 1000s of years they bombarded the area, leaving no trace, but they somehow killed one or two species off at a time (while apparently leaving the others unscathed) until they were all gone.Besides being a straw man argument, it's a simpleminded belief, rooted as it is in the false idea that dinosaurs -- which were in fact wiped out 65 million years ago, by an asteroid impact -- were on the Earth in the time of humans. They weren't. My reference to wheels turning in the same ruts pertains to that, as well as to the evo catechisms.
Those dwarf mammoths are at it again. This so conveniently explains how so many of my single socks go missing between the washer and dryer.
Yeah, their little feet get cold, so they grab extra socks, store them in their tr- naw, never mind... ;’)
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