Well hey now...if this one time in 1923 Yankee Stadium ran out of hot dogs and beer, and Jesus fed all the hungry/thirsty fans by slicing up a haddock and blessing a can of Yahoo, then God could have easily fit all those animals on a 50 foot yacht, nevermind a 450 foot ark.
Free? Gimme two. What's a can of Yahoo?
There were more than ONE instance of mass-extinction. Great big chunks of rock and ice were crashing into the Earth on a regular basis and wiping out whole phylum, not just species!
And as I have said before if the dinosaurs and human co-existed in the past WE WOULD KNOW ABOUT IT. We would have mummified dinosaurs, not fossils, for one thing.
And yet again: HOW could all the flightless birds and non-swimming animals get from places like Australia and New Zealand and Terra del Fuego to Palestine? And how would they get back without leaving a tell-tale trail of evidence behind?
And how come whales survived the flood, but not plesiosaurs?
Dang! I didn't even know there was more than one mass extinction. What went extinct before dino's? What was here to die?
Did roaches survive the first one or just the second one?
A whole bunch things. The joke amongst paleontologists is that like 99.9999999999999999997% of ALL species are extinct. Of note are two discoveries in the 20th Century:
-the Burgess Shales - a whole slice of Cambrian life, creatures so bizarre that they have no modern counterparts. Famously one taxonimist was heard to say on opening some museum drawers, 'F#ck ANOTHER phylum!'.
-the Edicarians - an equally bizarre collection of fossilised creatures from South Australia*. There is little to indicate what or how they existed, only that they did.
*old fossils from South Australia!! Heh heh!! Fossils! Adelaide! Decrepit!
Mr. Still, you are in rare form today. : )
(No pun intended)
How did this turn into a thread on the goddamn ARK - she said plaintively....
Dinosaurs were WAAAAAAAY along the evolutionary highway, Squinney.....
Ark! I hear an asteroid coming.
Famous last words of the dinosaurs: "Is that smoke on top of that mountain?"
OR
"Does the sun look closer to you today?"
Quote:Mr. Still, you are in rare form today. : )
dlowan wrote:Dinosaurs were WAAAAAAAY along the evolutionary highway, Squinney.....
I am SOOOOOOOOOO hurt! Boo-hoo!
A lady opened her refrigerator and saw a rabbit sitting on one of the shelves,
"What are you doing in there?" she asked.
The rabbit replied, "This is a Westinghouse, isn't it?"
The lady confirmed, "Yes." "Well," the rabbit said, "I'm westing."
