Balking with Dinosaurs
Nearly half of all Americans believe that humans and dinosaurs co-existed. Or rather, that “cavemen had to protect themselves from marauding dinosaurs”. So, it caught my eye when I read new research showing that raptors may have preyed on early man. Unfortunately for about 45% of Americans, this means raptors, the birds, and not the dinosaurs. I know, America, Jurassic Park was really convincing. And the new King Kong. I mean, it didn’t even make sense to have dinosaurs on that island, and yet, there they were, plain and realistic as day. But if we did co-exist at the same time as dinosaurs, do you really think we could have made it this far? I mean, the raptors in Jurassic Park could open electric doors and communicate by raptor-style Morse code. All we can do is make the same movie over and over again (e.g. the new King Kong, Jurassic Park II, III and IV…), and that’s after an extra 65 million years of evolution.
shannon rock said,
August 30, 2006 @ 11:16 am
there is evidence that they did in fact exist at the same time…. here ya go…
http://www.dinosaur-extinction.com/
monkey said,
August 30, 2006 @ 12:26 pm
I hazard to say that there is a lot more evidence against their coexistence. I don’t want to start anything, but that site and similar sites are rife with creationism “science”. There is a campaign of misinformation in the creation vs. evolution “debate” that is controversial mostly only in USA, and which I liken to the smear campaign against climate change science. But in many ways, it is a lot more transparent.