Posted on 05/26/2007 6:12:53 AM PDT by Renfield
YEC INTREP
Worthless speculation? Did you read the article? Did you notice the part about what they found in soils overlying the Clovis layers?
What's up with this? I thought this was a done deal.
I have a better theory. These large mamals were so flatulant that a thick layer of methane settled down on the continent depriving them of oxygen, so they all suffocated. How's that for a theory?
Oops, post 25 mamals=mammals.
What about RINOs?
Comet!
It makes your teeth turn green.
Comet!
It tastes like gasoline.
Comet!
It makes you vomit!
So have some Comet and vomit today!
It would be even better if people actually read the actual original scientific papers with all the documentary evidence.
People seem to be under the impression there's no fieldwork or research for stuff like this, that it's some guy in an office waving his arms.
You are a idiot. The science is the hard data that they recorded and reported, including the coincidence in age of the depostion layers of the cometary remnants that they report. Whether or not this explains the extinction is, of course, an open question, but one that is solveable by others looking for confirmatory or contradictory data.
This is how science is done, my man. These are world-class researchers and it doesn't get any better than this.
Of course there is competition to publish. But, we are conservatives / libertarians who believe that the world is better off when you have free market competition, and that goes for ideas as well as goods. So, we are supposed to chear this stuff.
Yes, the Debate is Over. ;’) There aren’t any really new objections to mass extinction, merely those who refuse to accept it on a priori grounds.
People seem to be under the impression there's no fieldwork or research for stuff like this, that it's some guy in an office waving his arms.
This is a good follow-up to the report a few weeks ago by Waters and others about the actual age of Clovis.
Science builds up incrementally, with occasional breakthroughs.
My favorite line of research now is mtDNA and the early coastal migration problem.
Yeah whatever, professor.
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