Comments on: Dinosaurs Lived Longer Than We Thought

By: Adirondack Jack

Adirondack Jack — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:09:53 +0000

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.

By: Lamont Cranston

Lamont Cranston — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:46:06 +0000

Michio Kaku is God!

By: NewsGuy

NewsGuy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:09:46 +0000

@ 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.

By: Joe from Jersey

Joe from Jersey — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:15:15 +0000

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.

By: The Great Frank

The Great Frank — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:12:55 +0000

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!

By: Johann

Johann — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:13:46 +0000

@ 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.

By: The Great Frank

The Great Frank — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:16:16 +0000

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!

By: SuperFlash

SuperFlash — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:15:04 +0000

@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.

By: NewsGuy

NewsGuy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:59:53 +0000

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?

By: zjim1984

zjim1984 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:33:17 +0000

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.