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Coyote
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Message 136 of 373 (695944)
04-10-2013 1:55 PM
Reply to: Message 134 by Alfred Maddenstein
04-10-2013 1:15 PM


Re: Still no dragon bones
The cat has said the dragon issue is wide open. Do you get it? Are you trying to impress the moggy with the formidable size of your congregation and the choir you sing to, Coy the Expert Choir Boy? Ooh, the Cheshire is all terrified and trembling...
Listen, the cat is ready to hear the views expressed by both creationist sects. No favours though will be granted to neo-darwinians. Their theoretical record is very poor so their credibility is compromised severely. Understand? Nor your second-hand opinions may be given advantage over those reported by Pliny and numerous others.
As to Pliny whom you are patronising here this is what he is coming back at you with: "Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more laughable and more presumptuous that the learned simian." Especially when his name is Coy the Expert Choir Boy, adds the Cheshire.
So you can't come up with any bones then?
So noted.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers

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Alfred Maddenstein
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Message 137 of 373 (695954)
04-10-2013 4:08 PM
Reply to: Message 136 by Coyote
04-10-2013 1:55 PM


Re: Still no dragon bones
Listen, Coy, you are a bone-picker, not me. So stop your religious nonsense and haul instead your expert ass over there. To places where Herodotus, Pliny, Red Indians and others reported meeting and fighting the dinos. Look for more bones to challenge your own thesis. Otherwise, as I said your whole chronology is nothing set in stone. They are finding fresh cells and stuff in the dragon bones assumed to stay a hundred million of years idle.

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Coyote
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Message 138 of 373 (695960)
04-10-2013 4:45 PM
Reply to: Message 137 by Alfred Maddenstein
04-10-2013 4:08 PM


Re: Still no dragon bones
Listen, Coy, you are a bone-picker, not me. So stop your religious nonsense and haul instead your expert ass over there. To places where Herodotus, Pliny, Red Indians and others reported meeting and fighting the dinos. Look for more bones to challenge your own thesis. Otherwise, as I said your whole chronology is nothing set in stone. They are finding fresh cells and stuff in the dragon bones assumed to stay a hundred million of years idle.
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.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers

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Message 139 of 373 (695964)
04-10-2013 5:03 PM
Reply to: Message 138 by Coyote
04-10-2013 4:45 PM


Re: Still no dragon bones
In other words, you are flat-out wrong.
Pssh. He's "not even wrong".
A complete waste of bandwidth. 0/10. Would not read again.

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Alfred Maddenstein
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Message 140 of 373 (695973)
04-10-2013 6:05 PM
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04-10-2013 4:45 PM


Re: Still no dragon bones
Coy boy is as sly and evasive as a shy girl. The issue put to you was that some of your chronology must be revised. It is either that protein decays rates are not what they are believed to be or it's that the dragon bones already found are of an unknown age anyway. Your elk and bears red-herrings don't impress the feline. The cat has just read something about them examining dino eggs fresh enough to guess the stages of the embryo. Shouldn't the eggs have crumbled to fine dust in next to 200 hundred million years?

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Coyote
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Message 141 of 373 (695987)
04-10-2013 8:55 PM
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04-10-2013 6:05 PM


Re: Still no dragon bones
Coy boy is as sly and evasive as a shy girl. The issue put to you was that some of your chronology must be revised. It is either that protein decays rates are not what they are believed to be or it's that the dragon bones already found are of an unknown age anyway. Your elk and bears red-herrings don't impress the feline. The cat has just read something about them examining dino eggs fresh enough to guess the stages of the embryo. Shouldn't the eggs have crumbled to fine dust in next to 200 hundred million years?
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?

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers

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ViperAce
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Message 142 of 373 (695991)
04-10-2013 10:16 PM


Don't fossil records and carbon dating and just about any reliable science pretty consistently place dinosaurs millions of years ahead of humans, along with showing a mass extinction that long ago? How could dinosaurs have possibly lived alongside humans?

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NosyNed
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Message 143 of 373 (695992)
04-10-2013 10:31 PM
Reply to: Message 142 by ViperAce
04-10-2013 10:16 PM


Details
It isn't carbon dating that is used for dinosaurs. It's meaningless for anything over about 50,000 years. Other methods are used.
There is a possibility of dinosaurs living alongside humans though. Just because dinosaurs lived a long, long time ago doesn't mandate that they can't also live now.
Of course, with one class of exceptions, not finding them now suggests that they aren't living alongside humans.
The exception is the birds which are classed as dinosauria so they do in fact live along side us which I think is very cool.

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ViperAce
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Message 144 of 373 (695994)
04-10-2013 10:35 PM
Reply to: Message 143 by NosyNed
04-10-2013 10:31 PM


Re: Details
Ha, yeah thats true, I didn't think of modern species that are "dinosaur" in a sense.

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NosyNed
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Message 145 of 373 (695995)
04-10-2013 10:38 PM
Reply to: Message 144 by ViperAce
04-10-2013 10:35 PM


Technically
Technically what you are thinking of are the "non-avian dinosaurs". I wish some of those were still around.

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Alfred Maddenstein
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Message 146 of 373 (696023)
04-11-2013 9:02 AM
Reply to: Message 141 by Coyote
04-10-2013 8:55 PM


Coy Boy, face it: the open creationists' case is stronger than what you crypto-creo lot suggest on the issue. Look only at the Chinese calendar, boy. They don't have years of hobbit and leprechaun, do they? Them all are familiar beasts there. Sagan's rationalization sounds weak and contrived. Face it, you lot might be backing the losing horse here.

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Pressie
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Message 147 of 373 (696024)
04-11-2013 9:12 AM
Reply to: Message 146 by Alfred Maddenstein
04-11-2013 9:02 AM


Fire-breathing dragons constructed from dinosaur fossils?
Don't think so.

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1.61803
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Message 148 of 373 (696027)
04-11-2013 10:22 AM
Reply to: Message 143 by NosyNed
04-10-2013 10:31 PM


Holy big freaken birds batman!
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Terror birds' never met humans
I for one am glad Titanis walleri, is no longer roaming the grasslands of Texas.
NosyNed writes:
The exception is the birds which are classed as dinosauria so they do in fact live along side us which I think is very cool.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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Alfred Maddenstein
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Message 149 of 373 (696029)
04-11-2013 10:31 AM
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04-11-2013 9:12 AM


The cat heard an explanation that the fire spewing bit could have been based upon reality. Something analogous to bombardier beetle defence. It could have been methane produced in the dragon's belly with a mechanism to divert and ignite the mighty fart.

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1.61803
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Message 150 of 373 (696035)
04-11-2013 11:03 AM
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04-11-2013 10:31 AM


The cat heard an explanation that the fire spewing bit could have been based upon reality. Something analogous to bombardier beetle defence. It could have been methane produced in the dragon's belly with a mechanism to divert and ignite the mighty fart.
The bombadier beetle does not produce fire.
If you can show another organism other than humans that can summon fire at will please show your evidence. Otherwise this goes into the shit can of the utterly ridiculous speculation.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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