Study: Dinosaur demise didn't spur species

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 3-28-07 | MALCOLM RITTER

[Pharmboy]

And no...this doesn't mean evo is wrong, but that as new data emerge, rethinking older hypotheses is in order.

[Bosco]

But evolution is still a hypothesis...

[Southack]

Of course Evolution is wrong. And of course, its faithful will simply revise it and pretend that its been right all along.

[bkepley]

And no...this doesn't mean evo is wrong, but that as new data emerge, rethinking older hypotheses is in order.

Well if it's true there has to be something behind these "bursts" besides random mutations IMHO.

[RadioAstronomer]

I wonder if they are taking into account the long-term change in climate from the meteor impact the formed the KT boundary. That in the end may have had a greater impact (pun intended) than the demise of the dinosaurs.

[RadioAstronomer]

Still stuck on stupid I see.

[Teacher317]

And of course, its faithful will simply revise it and pretend that its been right all along.

As opposed to the other side, which doesn't revise, and yet still pretends that they were right all along.

[Vaquero]

the small amount of data that exists, dont be surprised if this changes again in a few years......humanity has pieced together a tapestry using what we have...but the next major find will always modify what we 'know' now. The basic theory is solid but the details tend to be sketchy.

.....as a believer in our decendence from Neanderthal, despite the current PC version, I hope that the search goes on to conclude that people of european decent are an amalgam of Neanderthal and Cromagnon. Guys like Milford Wolpoff have some interesting points to make on the subject.

Oh, and by the way the Creationists will have a cow with this thread.

[johnandrhonda]

50% of Americans believe that our human ancestors lived during the time of the dinosaurs (65 million years ago--or more, lots more). Some for religious reasons, and some because they saw that movie with Ringo Star and Raquel Welch, (and they also watched the Flintstones on TV.)

[RightWhale]

used a controversial "supertree" method

The evolutionary tree is different everytime a new textbook is published. Most evolution articles are nearly useless without the picture of the tree with tapirs and lemurs standing on their branches. That includes this thread.

[johnandrhonda]

".....as a believer in our decendence from Neanderthal".

We did not descend from the Neanderthal any more than you descended from your brothers, sisters, or cousins.

[USMCPOP]

The reports of we dinosaurs being extinct have been greatly exaggerated. They've simply been looking under the wrong rocks all these years.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I'm a creationist and I'm not having a cow. As a matter of fact, I'm arranging dinner for a couple of my "evo" friends. You know them, right?

[colorado tanker]

The global warming hysterics ought to think about this. Sometimes the data come out contrary to the "models"

[johnandrhonda]

Let me quess--duck, with the mango salsa--am I right or am I right?

[Stultis]

Of course Evolution is wrong. And of course, its faithful will simply revise it and pretend that its been right all along.

Actually I always argue instead for killing or forcibly brainwashing the unbelievers, but I get voted down at the meetings. Usually.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Preeeeeeee....

cisely!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Actually, I'm thinking that I'll just use the "duck with mango salsa" line rather than humping through Google images, tinyURL and the HTML coding.

Quicker, cleaner and recognizable.

[KingRonnie9]

You guys totally distort the opposing view to try to support your own, much like libs do to conservatives.
Creationists don't believe that humans and dinos co-existed because of movies. We simply don't buy that it all happened 65 million years ago. I don't know what you guys think is so whacked about believing that dinosaurs were still around a few thousand years ago. That's much less far-fetched than believing something evolved from nothing, with mutant distortions of the norms taking dominance with each generation instead of dying out sooner as they do today.