Did Dinosaurs live with man?

The bones, Scotty, the bones.Where are the bones?

Scotty, by now you have read the posts responding to your initial post and pointing out a huge number of errors.I have a couple of serious questions I'd like to ask:

1) Did you not realize the information you were relying on was erroneous? Did some websites or creationists you trusted provide you with false information that you then posted here?

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2) In either case, what good does it do for any cause to be associated with such erroneous claims? Certainly in science there is no benefit in being wrong--it is a disgrace at best and often a disaster to one's career. Is it different for creationists?

I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.

Feathers or not, dinos didn't live at the same time man did.Minor discrepancy of ca. 65 million years.

Don't pick nits, it's unbecoming. And you'll just confuse the creationists.

Where are the bones?We have bones from everything back to early dinosaurs, but no dragon bones.Where are the dragon bones?

If you were to do a simple web search you would find that "dragon bones" is a term the Chinese use to describe any fossil. They use them in herbal medicines.There are no real dragon bones found by paleontologists. Dragons are imaginary creatures, much like hobbits, elves, and deities. Your crudity says far more about you than it does about Dawkins.How can you expect anyone to take what you say seriously when that is the apex of your discussion?

Well, I have a little more than a web search to go on. Half my Ph.D. training was in the field of fossil man and human osteology, but it included a lot of mammalian osteology as well. I get calls about once a month to help the local Coroner identify bones, and we are always digging up bones of all sorts. Got some grizzly bear bones a couple of weeks ago. So I''m not exactly unfamiliar with the subject of osteology—as you seem to be. Beliefs and assertions are rubbish, but science has evidence and that is relevant in science. And that evidence is that there are no dragon bones! You don't believe it, all you have to do is produce evidence that there are. And you better make it good, as you are going against the informed opinions and evidence of tens of thousands of experts. "Possible" is a nonsense claim. Let's stick to evidence instead. Elves, leprechauns, unicorns, and trolls are "possible" if you stretch the term, but of those critters the only one we have evidence for is trolls (this thread is proof positive that they exist).

Sure!The Chinese have a long tradition of "dragon" bones. They are just fossils.Some of the Gigantopithecus teeth were found in Chinese herbal shops, if I remember correctly.But that doesn't make them dragons.If there were really dragons running around at about any time in the past we should have found bones or fossils. We haven't.Ergo, they didn't exist. More creationist wishful thinking.

All rhetoric, no answer to the question.Where are the bones?

You have just destroyed your own argument.Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, so there was no overlap with humans.

Your assertions, which are contradicted by a century or two of scientific evidence, are meaningless without evidence to support them.If you doubt the chronology established by scientists from all over the world, produce evidence to the contrary. Unsupported claims are useless. And your unsupported claims do not make the evidence accumulated by scientists go away no matter how often you repeat them. For that you need evidence.Care to provide some?(See signature block--those lines seem most apt in your case.)

Right, you can always tell a troll, but you can't tell him much. Fossilized hominids are not found in the same strata as fossilized dinosaurs. You're off by nearly 65 million years. Pliny the Elder was wrong. It is not just me, it is tens of thousands of scientists, who collectively know quite a lot. They say you are wrong and you have presented no evidence to show otherwise.Until you have evidence there is no reason for anyone to listen to a thing you say.And the easiest evidence for you to prove the presence of dragons during historic times would be dragon bones in historic contexts.So where are the bones?

So you can't come up with any bones then?So noted.

I've found lots of bones in my career. Couple of weeks ago we came up with a nice grizzly bear mandible and a few other parts of a bear skeleton. We got hundreds of bones, mostly sea mammal and elk, on another project a few weeks before that.But no dinosaur bones and no dragon bones. My archaeologist colleagues across the country likewise report no dinosaur bones or dragon bones in Native American sites.You seem to be letting old myths color your thinking to the point that you have lost the ability to deal with reality. In other words, you are flat-out wrong.

Ignorance of the facts does not make a persuasive argument, nor do your colloquialisms help your case.Care to put up or shut up? Where are all the dragon bones?