Two new archaeological discoveries are throwing scientific dogma on its head by indicating that dinosaurs were not killed off by a giant meteorite and may have actually lived past the Cretaceous Era extinction event.
The belief that dinosaurs were killed off by a huge meteor comes from the 1979 discovery of the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, Mexico. Scientists were confirmed in their belief after particles from the impact site were discovered below the geographical time line known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary.
K–T boundary along Interstate 25 near Raton Pass, Colorado.
However, two scientists, Gerta Keller of Princeton University in New Jersey, and Thierry Adatte of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, are set to publish data showing the Chicxulub impact occurred 300,000 before KT boundary.
“We found that not a single species went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact,” said Dr. Keller, whose work is being published in The Journal of The Geological Society. Dr. Keller believes that massive volcanic activity from the Deccan Traps in India 65 million years ago may have plunged the Earth into a prolonged period without Sun, killing off the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous Era.
The second bit of new scientific evidence comes from dinosaur bones uncovered at the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA. These bones have been found to be from after the Cretaceous Era extinction. Dr. James Fassett, who authored the controversial new research and is being published in Palaeontologia Electronica, believes dinosaurs actually lived beyond the Extinction Event in an area between New Mexico and Colorado for up a half a million years.
“This is a controversial conclusion, and many palaeontologists will remain sceptical”, writes David Polly, one of the editors of Palaeontologia Electronica, but notes that birds and smaller reptiles survived the Extinction event. “One thing is certain” continues Polly, “if dinosaurs did survive, they were not as widespread as they were before the end of the Cretaceous and did not persist for long.”
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As a side note for the Christians among your readers the following three studies might be of interest as well…
WHEN WAS THE BEGINNING?
Commonly referred to as The Three Earth Ages teaching.
http://www.biblestudysite.com/begin.htm
The First Earth Age, Archaeological Evidence For Creation and Against Evolution
http://www.biblestudysite.com/1stage.htm
Archaeology Confirms The Biblical Account
http://biblestudysite.com/arch.htm
Dinasaurs are still on planet Earth. Now.
Read “The Genesis Record” by Dr. Henry Morris. and Dr. Walt Brown’s book “In the Beginning”.
Dr. Walt Brown’s book analyzes Noah’s flood to have the power of 16 million nuclear blasts. Lost alot of dinasaurs then but still Noah had some on the ark.
Sorry, didn ‘t mean to spell dinosaur wrong.
Where are these dinos now if still on earth? Oh yeah they have evolved into birds
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html
Anyhow where is this evidence of dinos living? Nevermind here it is
http://www.dinosauradventureland.com/
I have always been confused how conservatives can be so rational otherwise but can reject science in the favor of fantasy on this issue.
Fact is, zjim1984, science is constantly shifting. Even the laws of physics get thrown on their head eventually. The things people like you scoff at are eventually proven true.
Of course, you don’t address the new facts put forward in the article. You’re just concerned with attacking people based on their religious or political beliefs.
Which makes me think: what exactly are progressives so progressive about?
@NewGuy:
Are you actually serious? You can’t even begin to comprehend how well supported science like the theory of evolution is. There have been hundreds of thousands of papers, books, and essays detailing the massive amount of evidence for the theory. The evidence for the 4.5 billion year old Earth, the 13.7 billion year old universe, and the origins of species includes empirical evidence from dozens of fields with literally millions of scientists contributing to it.
Evolution is one of the strongest scientific successes on Earth.
Of course the asteroid theory may be wrong; but so? These paleontologists are simply supporting a similar theory. They’d be outraged to know that you are twisting their work to support something as scientifically insane as Creationism.
Science is constantly shifting because the evidence is constantly shifting. Unlike religion, science molds to actually fit with reality. Creationism is as dead as the idea of a flat Earth, and it comes closer to absolute rejection every day.
(Note: Creationism is a joke within the scientific community; a common phrase is “Creationist bad”.
Additionally, in the past Never has a rejected idea like Creationism ever made a serious scientific comeback after a hundred years of rejection. Why? Because for an idea to be scientifically rejected by millions of scientists world wide, it has got to have absolutely no scientific base whatsoever. And, every day the evidence mounts again Creationism.
@ SuperFlash:
There is just as much evidence against evolution than you propose exists against Creationism.
Evolution cannot possibly explain the existence of the bombardier beetle or even the design of a giraffe’s brain. I can give you dozens of examples and literature, but I’m sure you can find it yourself.
Darwin did not even know about DNA when he presented his theory of evolution.
I place the theory of evolution up there with feel-good History forced down our throats and accepted as fact by many today.
As I correctly predicted on TRP, the asteroid theory is bogus! It was a political statement against Reagan’s SDI. The propaganda was that we’d have a “nuclear winter” if there was a nuclear war, which according to the rats and pigs of the left was caused by Reagan’s arms race. Of course notice not a word now about “nuclear winter” caused by Iran and N.Korea accelerating the arms race! The fact is, they ate themselves out of extistance. Look at how much overpopulation does to flora decimated by deers. Now multiply that by trillions for a dinosaur. Sheep decimate grass where they graze. Dinosaurs ate up the existing flora which they couldn’t replace. Overpopulation drove them to extiction!
Superflash:
The theory of evolution is just a trick to get you to believe that you were evolved from bacteria and bear no greater importance that an animal. People were made by God. Liberals want you to believe you are an animal so when you have an abortion you are just killing an animal. Animals are equal to humans and deserve equal status. This is a crock and a trick. Micro evolution exists through primarily, natural selection. Extrapolating that to macro evolution is nonsense. A bacteria cannot evolve into a dog, nor an ape into a man.
The asteroid impact theory was used as a cause of the “nucler winter” that destroyed the dinosaurs vis a vis a nuclear holocaust caused by Reagan and the SDI upping the ante. Michio Kaku, who is full of Ka Ka, said the same thing about the burning oil wells in the First Gulf War. Guess what children, the “big scientist” that you hear on Coast to Coast AM was wrong! Of course this leftist was never called on the carpet by the host!
@ SuperFlash:
You’ve answered your own question in your statement.
Repeatedly you call evolution a theory – which is correct. However, you continue to heap on points to make the theory a fact and eventually a dogma. Which is the fallacy the left always runs into.
Nice of you to use words to form sentences you don’t even understand.
Michio Kaku is God!
I don’t want to disagree with The Great Frank. There has been one “nuclear winter” in recorded history. In 1815, Mt. Tambora ( I think that was the name), exploded in Indonesia and caused an atmospheric cooling that year and in the northern latitudes the next that was referred to a “1816 and starve to death” as there were crop failures across the world due to frosts in every month. Either there were unique atmospheric factors then or Krakatoa explodiing later in the century was a smaller eruption, as the circumstance was not repeated then. This has very little to do with the cause of destruction of the dinosaurs, which is still conjectural.
I used to think that to be a ‘Scoop Jackson liberal’ was to keep your mind open to any logics and proofs, but that has all seemed to be turned on its head these past thirty years. Superflash, I’m with you on the weight of scientific evidence as faith based beliefs have to yield to factual proof. No one has ever seen an electron, but there is no ideological argument about the theory of electromagnetism. The guest on last week’s show talked about the ideological warnings he has received in his pursuit of evidence that caucasians were present in North America thousands of years before previosly thought. Isn’t it a bit hypocritical to praise him for his pursuit of scientific fact and to ridicule other scientists for doing the same about evolution? My mind is open to the wonder of God’s creations and able to reconcile that with using the brain that he blessed mankind with.