Did Dinosaurs live with man?

And paleobiologist Mary Schweitzer thinks that creationists are full of shit, and gives public talks saying so.Moreover, Mary Schweitzer used to be a young-earth creationist before she started studying dinosaurs. It was her research into the evidence that convinced her personally that creationists were talking shit.Maybe she knows more about her research than you do. So you cited evidence that you know to be a hoax.There's some book somewhere that says that you shouldn't bear false witness --- but perhaps you think that that book is a load of crap. The Paluxy hoax has also been exposed. But perhaps you know that and wish to prate about it anyway. Since you are, apparently, deliberately dishonest, it's hard to tell when you're being genuinely stupid and when you're deliberately lying.

I'm inclined to agree.

They're just archosaurs.Dinosaurs are different. The most important feature is that they're adapted so that their legs are vertical instead of splaying outwards like crocodiles or lizards or tortoises.Birds are dinosaurs. Crocodiles are just the nearest thing to dinosaurs that aren't dinosaurs.

I could say something now, but I won't.

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Well, I was going to post just about exactly what caffeine just posted.As I said, dinosaurs have pillar legs that allow them to bear their weight directly under their bodies. As a consequence, dinosaurs have a perforated acetabulum --- that is, they have holes in their hipbones into which the head of the thighbone fits, rather than a hollow in their hipbones in which it rests.(Mammals have the same arrangement, but it evolved independently.)There are other differences between dinosaurs and other reptiles --- for example, IIRC, dinosaurs have fewer fingers than the archosaurs from which they're descended.I myself only researched what a dinosaur really was a few years ago. One thing I found out which surprised me is that dinosaurs are basally bipedal. I'd envisioned some of them evolving bipedality, like humans did, but it's the other way round. Dinosaurs are descended from archosaurs which went running around on their hind legs, and then some of them got so big and heavy that they had to get down on all fours. You can see this very clearly with ceratopians --- there are little ceratopians with the characteristic neck frill and beak which were bipedal, and then as they evolved into great huge things like Triceratops they became quadrupedal.

Quite possibly.The question that fascinates me is whether they sang. Movies have them roaring like lions, but why should they? Reptiles don't do that. But birds sing, couldn't that have been basal in dinosaurs? (IIRC, baby crocodiles make "cheep" noises just like baby birds, and they're archosaurs, so ...)I imagine, though I may be wrong in this, that the larger dinosaurs would have had deeper voices. Imagine the "dawn chorus" in the Cretaceous period as the ceratopians and stegosaurs began to boom forth their ponderous oratorios ...I don't know if this is the sort of thing we could ever be in a position to find out, but I like to think about it.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

I thought you were only obsessively wrong about physics. It's nice to see you branching out.

I already knew you don't know what "creationist" means, so there's nothing new to laugh at there. That's disappointing. On the other hand, it seems that you're now setting your sights on the Law Of The Excluded Middle. This could be fun to watch.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Does it worry you at all that this is the most sensible and coherent thing you've posted?

No. That would be one of the crazy delusions in your head. One of the many, many crazy delusions in your head.(I am doing you the courtesy of supposing that you are insane rather than a deliberate liar.)

That's not quite true. There's always the unlearned simian. Who pretends to be a cat.

I would again suggest that you show these sentences to a doctor and ask his opinion.

Tell me, were you always like this or was there some sort of traumatic life event which triggered it?

And this broke your brain? Yeah, it's rubbish.The biggest lie in the paper is this: "W. Libby, who received the Nobel Prize for his C-14 research showed there is no possible way that bone collagen can be contaminated." Of course he didn't show that, and in the paper (written in 1964!) which they cite he merely said that he didn't know of such a mechanism. Now take a look here. Among scientists, Libby's ignorance has been supplanted by actual knowledge. Among creationists, of course, his ignorance is passed off as proven fact. This gives them no credibility among scientists, of course, but it allows them to gull credulous dupes such as yourself.