So i am insane, a kook, a conspiracy theorist, and now an idiot. How far do you intend to extend you ad hominem attacks?
You claim I made errors on the weights of megafauna. You can find those quoted weights in any text book or reference book on dinosaurs. In fact, except for the original article that started this thread, I have posted only references from recognized experts in their sciences taken from peer reviewed scientific journals. Weights when presented were also extracted from recognized resources in paleontology and are the accepted weights for the animals to which they refer.
Your idea that “lifesize animatronic models” of some of the dinosaurs could be used to “test” whether they could move is absurd. Those models are merely a synthetic skin over a metal frame with some hydraulic actuators which have no relationship to the real thing made of dense muscle, skin, tendons, and bone that weighs many times more than the model.
You continue to ignore the well established Square Cube LAW (where is that reference to it only applying to “idealized spheres?” I’m still waiting for that ) and now you want us to believe a basically air filled model with steel or aluminum bones, hydraulic “muscles,” and steel cable “sinews and tendons” is the same as the real thing for determining whether a flesh and blood animal muscle could lift a mass of muscle and bone at the end of a very long lever. Who’s the idiot here? It’s not me.
Evidence for the difference in weight? Or is discussing actual numbers beneath your dignity?
My comments on your credibility are restrained. I have at least suggested putting my skepticism to the test with engineering mock-ups.
>>So i am insane, a kook, a conspiracy theorist, and now an idiot. How far do you intend to extend you ad hominem attacks?<<
I generally don’t psychoanalyze people over the net
But hear goes. You don’t sound like a consoiracy theorist to me.
You sound like someone who has committed to religion based and almost literalist outlook. Since you seem bright and well spoken, odds are pretty good that you realize your view isn’t supportable evidence as judged by those who spend their studying this stuff.
Now, I don’t blame you if you feel a bit defensive when you are beset on all sides - I certainly get defensive .
None of that makes you a bad person. If my Grand Daddy (an old timey Baptist preacher) were here, I believe he would say “Your God is too small.” That can happen to the best of us when we make assumptions that something beyond what Jesus is somehow essential to faith - when really , God is above that.