Dinosaurs and cavemen

[Tricky]

Of course dinosaurs co-existed with cave men. They co-exist with modern men. We call them "birds" now.

So the "tastes like chicken" thing is pretty close.

 

[Tumblehome]

<pedantic>Can birds be truly called dinosaurs?</pedantic>

I don't know if iguanas are descended from dinosaurs, but I had a couple of iguana meals in Belize, and it did taste like chicken. So much so that in Belize it's known as the bamboo chicken.

But I can't say the same about their eggs. No comparison there.

 

[Dr Adequate]

Try here.

Creationists and Dinosaurs

I think that's the basics covered.

 

[Tumblehome]

Cute link, thanks.

The fact that dinosaurs (other than birds) are extinct, is based not on the theory of evolution but on the fact that no-one can find any living dinosaurs.

Okay, so birds are dinosaurs.

...the Loch Ness Monster (which, if it existed, would not be a dinosaur: dinosaurs are land animals).

Hmm, now I'm really defused.

 

[Mojo]

I don't know if iguanas are descended from dinosaurs...

No, they're lizards.

 

[Mojo]

...the Loch Ness Monster (which, if it existed, would not be a dinosaur: dinosaurs are land animals).

Hmm, now I'm really defused.

The large marine predators that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs (ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, pliosaurs and plesiosaurs) were not dinosaurs, but reptiles. It has been suggested that (at least some of) the descriptions of the Loch Ness Monster could fit some sort of plesiosaur, although this site gives a variety of reasons that this is not possible.

 

[Sandy M]

I'm partial to riding the Utahraptors, myself.


But I suspect that a T-Rex army would have been more imposing.

http://www.amazon.com/Year-Cloud-Fe...0111652?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185897704&sr=1-2

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Maybe. But I'd much rather have some logical people give their ideas on it, first.

Logical people would say the premise is illogical ..

 

[Nim Chimpsky]

There was a 60 Minutes story on the debate team at Liberty Univ. These supposedly college educated kids were justifying to the interviewer how Noah got dinos on the ark: eggs and baby dinosaurs were the 2 most popular theories.

 

[Temporal Renegade]

I think the logic is something like this - "we can't deny that there were dinosaurs - everyone's seen the fossils. But if the earth isn't very old, and humans have been around basically since the beginning, if there were dinosaurs they coexisted with humans." So the creationists say, "Okay, why not?"

The only other out is to say that there never were any dinosaurs - god just put the fossils there for fun - maybe he was planning a neat-o scavenger hunt or something, but forgot about them?
That option, though is so blatantly stupid (because it can explain absolutely anything, if you're stuck just saying, "god did it that way, it doens't mean anything" then you can deny absolutely any evidence) that even some creationists distance themselves from it.

Yeah, I've heard of the 'Just for fun' theory before; never thought God was such a card.

 

[Temporal Renegade]

Why couldn't they say that dinosaurs perished in Noah's flood? In their version of the story, poor Noah loaded two of every species of dinosaur on the ark and kept them alive in captivity while stopping them from destroying the boat, only to have their descendants go extinct. No wonder he took to drinking in his later years.

Wonder where he put the T-Rexs.

T-Rexii?

T-Rexes?

 

[Temporal Renegade]

Logical people would say the premise is illogical ..

Spoken like a true philosopher!

 

[Temporal Renegade]

Try here.

Creationists and Dinosaurs

I think that's the basics covered.

Man, I love Skepticwiki!

 

[Temporal Renegade]

There was a 60 Minutes story on the debate team at Liberty Univ. These supposedly college educated kids were justifying to the interviewer how Noah got dinos on the ark: eggs and baby dinosaurs were the 2 most popular theories.

Oh yeah. I can see that....

 

[The Grave]

wouldn't this question be better put on a fundie board where you'll find people that actually believe it?

Any suggestions for a faither forum to visit....?

 

[bruto]

Wonder where he put the T-Rexs.

T-Rexii?

T-Rexes?

Reges should be right but it doesn't sound right.

 

[Dorian Gray]

There was a 60 Minutes story on the debate team at Liberty Univ. These supposedly college educated kids were justifying to the interviewer how Noah got dinos on the ark: eggs and baby dinosaurs were the 2 most popular theories.

But they are just theories! A theory isn't written in stone. It's not fact. It's just a theory.

 

[Temporal Renegade]

Awesome! So the Cavemen Cavalry had their own flamethrower corps? And could you use small dinos as cigarette lighters?

Oh, now THAT would be cool!

 

[Temporal Renegade]

Reges should be right but it doesn't sound right.

I kind of like 'T-Rages'; sounds more hard-core and macho!

 

[AgeGap]

"(C) If Noah took some on the Ark, what could have happened to them?"

Whan Noah landed on Atlantis he let the dinosaurs go. They then evolved into birds. Creationism and evolution coexisting. We can all be friends.

Countig Santa's elves would be difficult. It would be better to ask Santa for a list of workers. I am sure it is a legal requirement to keep such a list.