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- Falldog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2410 things you should already know
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I have no idea what that means... but google offers some help:
"Did you mean: diabetes?" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16For those of you that are questioning why this is news, there's a group of people called creationists that take the word of the bible literally and say that the Earth is only a few thousand years old and that humans were alive at the same time as dinosaurs.
If you do a search on creationism+dinosaurs+ark you'll find some funny ***** out there like this guy that says that most dinosaurs were the size of a German Shepherd:
http://www.barr-family.com/godsword/dino.htm - 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17You get the award for Most Misinformed Guy of the Day.
South American pottery depicts plenty of strange beasts--elephants, alligators, and possibly even wolly mammoths, but dinosaurs? Er... nope. - maklershed, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19Myth 1 - Humans lived alongside dinosaurs
C'mon! Who, other than Pat Robertson, would ever believe something like that was possible? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14coral cache ftw:
http://www.newscientist.com.nyud.net:8080/channel/life/dinosaurs/dn9936-top-10-dinosaur-myths.html
or you can just use duggmirror
I thought that everyone knew these were myths - dickeytk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11is there seriously people out there that didn't know 1? i thought everybody knew all this stuff
- jefffm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11some guy in the future is going to look at our high school sketchbooks and think we lived with all kinds of dinosaurs and pokemon.
- 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur
"The term dinosaur is sometimes used informally to describe other prehistoric reptiles, such as the pelycosaur Dimetrodon, the winged pterosaurs and the aquatic ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, although technically none of these were dinosaurs."
Read the whole wikipedia entry and learn.
PS - Google is your friend. - BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You meen the flintstones.... werent real.... :-O
- shortcircuit13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Crocs, sharks, turtles, and fish all actually PRECEDED the dinosaurs.
Sharks have remained relatively unchanged for the past 200 million years. (sheer size and gill number are about the only things that really changed)
Crocs and turtles have also remained relatively unchanged since before the Triassic.
Fish... well... they've been around a long, long, long while. (even before sharks! :-p )
So... no. There's only the very slightest off-chance that the entirety of paleontology could be wrong and such things could be the descendants of dinosaurs. - omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dr. Dino is well known to be a kook.
- TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There are none.
Were you talking about the Glen Rose formation at Paluxy River, Texas?
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC101.html - shortcircuit13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Seriously, dude.
Ignorance != Superior understanding.
Read Wikipedia, or (OMFG!) a few books. You might learn something more than "Jurassic Park FTW!!!oneone!!1!" - Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It depends on how old you are. Several of those myths are *exactly* what I was taught in school, back in the day.
Myth #4: When I was in school, waaaay back in the 1970s, it seemed paleontologists were strongly pushing the asteroid-catastrophe theory. It was new, revolutionary, and on the cover of lots of magazines. The idea was that the dinos died out within a few decades of the impact, leaving a world with gaping holes in the ecosystem.
Myth #6: The idea that some dinos evolved into birds wasn't widely accepted till the 1990s, AFAIK. It wasn't really proven until more feathered dinosaur fossils were found. On a side note, the idea that birds == dinos is now so entrenched that I was amused that in the Sony game, "Monster Hunter" the dragons all behave like birds to one degree or another, bobbing their heads, pecking the players, etc..
Myth #7: The idea that dinos were slow, sluggish, cold blooded creatures was firmly entrenched in science when I was in school. The relatively new science of measuring a creatures speed from it's foot prints showed that they were faster than we thought, and, again, scientists were busy re-posing the dinosaur fossils into running postures when I was in college, in the 1980s. - omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+411. No, dinosaur bones were not planted in the earth to test our faith.
- stuartjmoore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5on what day did g-d create the dinosaurs?
- TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dr.Dino is truely hillarious. He fell for this: http://www.nmsr.org/april_fool.html
He thought it was an actual fossil. The man is a loon- check out this review of his thesis from the diploma mill: http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/bartelt_dissertation_on_hovind_thesis.htm
And here is the actual website of the diploma mill: http://www.patriotuniversity.com/ - scott1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Me too. I was told this since 2nd grade.
- kooft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@GCRaya
"Have you seen the pictures of the "Inca Stones"? There are over a thousand of them. Many of them with drawings of people riding on them and working next to them."
Alright, I'll bite. Link us up with images to thousands of Inca stones. Oh wait, you can't can you? Maybe it's because they're called Ica stones?
"Maybe you should not through out Awards unless you can prove what you are saying."
It's throw, not through. Using the correct terminology lends credibility to your argument. Having said that, it's incredibly humorous to see someone make a fantastic claim with no proof to back it up only to see this person chastising others for not providing proof.
If you would do any research at all, you'll discover that the guy selling these stones won't say where he found them. Having been arrested for selling archaeological artifacts, he admitted to forging the stones. Later examination of the stones indicated modern materials used in the etching process.
Think about it. If you found what may be the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century would you be pawning them off to tourists? No, you'd be selling them to the highest bidder, raking in major cash.
No, wikipedia isn't the end-all for research but it's a good place to begin your quest for answers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ica_stones - Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They are all certainly species that have survived since the time of the dinosaurs, they just aren't part of the dinosaur family tree.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Where the hell is,
11. Dinosaurs were scaly, or had dull, boring skin.
In fact, dinosaurs were not scaly at all, and they may have had beautiful, multi-colored plumage. In fact, T-Rexes have been liked to looking like gigantic chicks. - TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The Inca stones are a hoax.
- wbeavis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+511. Brontosaurus was a dinosaur. A scientist cheated. He did not have the skull, so he used another one that he thought was close enough.
- brobinson2102, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, I thought everyone knew these things too. But when you have places like the "Museum of Earth History http://www.moeh.org/main/fact.htm" telling people that Triceratops dates back to 10,000 BCE (Before Christian Era), it makes things a little confusing some.
- msoya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Kent Hovind believes that early man lived alongside FIRE-BREATHING T-REXES. Also, they were easily hunted for food - you just had to break their arms.
Also, some creationists are now claiming that Beowulf (yes, the poem) actually happened, and that Grendel (no, not the dragon - perhaps they didn't read to the end of the poem) was a dinosaur: http://www.crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1261413.html A dinosaur with magic spells. - robbiedo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Marshall, Will, and Holly lived with the dinosaurs.
- killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Maybe more unbiased story about the tracks
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/tsite.html - killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8All wrong. Jesus put dino bones in the ground to mess with "scientists". If you believe in dinosaurs you are going to hell. Thanks.
- Nitescape, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3'Takes step forward and raises hand'
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bigtomrodney
Can any of you clods notice that I was going along with the phrasing of the submitter? - staticneuron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I was amused that in the Sony game, "Monster Hunter" the dragons all behave like birds to one degree or another, bobbing their heads, pecking the players,"
I thought dragons are still considered fictional creatures. It would give anyone who ad dragons in thier film/video games carte blanche to describe how they looked and behaved. - 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3marvin69...
"Crocs [sic], sharks, turtles and some fish" are not dinosaurs that we are "living next to now". They are relatives of--or possible descendants of--true dinosaurs. - Cowboy5995, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1"What was their skin/scales(?) like? No one knows STFU."
Actually we do have fossilized skin imprints so we can make some conclusions based on that. - shortcircuit13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Ah, I guess that was Commandment #12: Thou shalt be created stupid and gullible for s---s and giggles.
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here here. where did all the schooling go.
- pagit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...a recent study of 63 dinosaur genera yielded an average weight in excess of 850 kg — comparable to the weight of a grizzly bear — and a median weight of nearly 2 tons, or about as much as a giraffe. This contrasts sharply with the size of modern mammals; on average, mammals weigh only 863 grams, or about as much as a large rodent. The smallest dinosaur was bigger than two-thirds of all current mammals; the majority of dinosaurs were bigger than all but 2% of living mammals." (Wikipedia)
@ hodyoaten: 12. "There were NO sleestaks during the Cretaceous period." so no Marshall, Will or Holly bones have ever been found from that era ? - thearmourer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you!
As a dinosaur fanatic, I am very glad to see someone working to erase the misconceptions. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sure, everything ever drawn must be true. Just like information on the Internet.
- hollowmedia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2In all fairness to that guy, he said the baby dinosaurs were the size of German Shepards. What's worse, a person being wrong about his interpretation or you being wrong about yours to make him look even more stupid?
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know people wrote about and draw mythological creatures and dragons, yet they never existed (as far as we know).
Plus Ica Stones are probably a hoax. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6You'd be surprised how little people know.
Anyway, I have never studied dinosaurs in school except during 2nd grade. I - staydead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Well they have found human footprints among prints of dinosaurs in rock"
No, they haven't. There are many posts above showing that to be false. Don't let that get in the way of your confirmation bias though. - Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why wouldn't they believe #7? It was what we were all taught in school until the 1980s or so.
The idea that dinos had high-energy metabolisms (i.e., they could run) was quite controversial for many years. - natterca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Do you mean "isn't"? Btw,
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/brontokids.html
"you're pretty smart if you know a Brontosaurus is really called an Apatosaurus, but you're even smarter if you realize it really doesn't make all that much of a difference." - Dred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well they have found human footprints among prints of dinosaurs in rock at Dinosaur Valley State Park, Texas. I have been unable to find the article. If anyone finds it please put link in comments.
- recipher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2everlast746, not all of these are myths. Fact: I've seen pictures of soccer moms riding on the scaly backs of velociraptors.
- hiscity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hmmm, ok. try this. Check out a "world seismicity" map centered on Asia and Australia.
Perhaps here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/seismicity/
What is the most active area of the world for volcanoes and earthquakes??
Does it look to you like something really big hit in the area between Indonesia and the Philippines? In other words, do the seismicity lines remind you of the rock break pattern in a car window, (with radial lines sometimes traveling under the crust and concentric lines circling around the impact point)?
If so... then 3 points:
a. whatever hit would have been big enough to shatter the earth (!)
b. there could be evidence of it still there (*)
c. the impact area would be the most seismically unstable in the world
(* - such as major subsurface ore deposits and gravimetric anomalies, around the Banda Sea)
That would be a very nasty problem for evolutionists, geologists, etc. since it would mess with plate tectonic theory, define a mass extinction event larger than any other, and severely reduce the time that evolution could occur in. And it would be simply too big too ignore. Imagine the tsunami!
Should be easy enough to disprove, eh. ..... (kekekeke) - cleverboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm pretty sure no one ever thought a meteor "alone" ever killed all the dinosaurs. Everywhere I've ever heard that theory, it was accompanied by the fact that the crash caused rapid and devastating environmental repercussions. I think that one's just on the list to get our attention until we see the word "alone". Kinda lame. Having a huge chuck of rock 1/3 the size of the moon whack into our planet is not even something we'd survive. Unless the dinosaurs were already dead, its not worth speculating on whether someone else would have killed them after 150 million years of survival (compared to our strapping 6 million years). --Eh...
- Vaporman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I find it humorous that people, whether they are creationists or evolutionists (but especially evolutionist neo-darwinists), blindly accept the word of science pertaining to that particular view as though neither is based on it's own presuppositions. The fact is the scientific evidence for both theories can only go so far. No matter how much you think you know, you really don't know for sure. So, it's a question of which will you put your faith into?
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