Comments on: Feathers More Common Among Dinosaurs

By: Dfoxman1959

Dfoxman1959 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:31:07 +0000

I have a very interesting story play out when I was in third grade. I was a fanatic about dinosaurs and knew more about them then the teachers. As such I was invited to help narrate a slide strip (this dates me!) along with two 5th grade boys in front of some 1st graders. One of them asked, “Did dinosaurs live during humans?”. Having read a couple of books, I said, “No” when both 5th graders said, “Yes they did!” We proceeded to argue for a few minutes until the teacher told us to quiet down. At that point one of the slides had a picture showing a caveman throwing a rock at a dinosaur! The two 5th graders looked at me and said, “See! We told you so!”

By: AttacusAtlas

AttacusAtlas — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:55:58 +0000

Dr. Novella — TYPO in first sentence of last paragraph. Should read “the group hypothesized to BE related”.

By: eean

eean — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:14:59 +0000

Steven, you are ignoring the ‘obvious’ argument creationists can make now: dinosaurs are just type of bird.

Creationists do seem to spend a lot of time talking about dinosaurs, I guess because they capture the public’s imagination so vividly. So I suppose creationists might have a hard time explaining that chickens are just a subspecies of T-rex, since that’s just so obviously wrong, but that might not stop them from trying…

By: nybgrus

nybgrus — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:28:54 +0000

Actually, according to the bible, pi=3 Granted it isn't a direct statement on pi, but the circle they describe would require pi=3 for the measurements described. But of course, many attempts to salvage this are made, including the most "reasonable" one by the ICR which attempts to explain it as a factor of significant figures which would allow the description to encompass pi=3.14... Of course that isn't enough, so they go on to say how obvious such an interpretation would be thus preserving the infallibility of the bible and ensuring that "the Bible is not only correct, it foreshadows modern engineering truth."

By: eiskrystal

eiskrystal — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:55:59 +0000

Shame. Well, that’s always going to be a problem with non-temporal concepts within a temporal universe.

Can it tell me then why pi is 3.14? That should be an obvious one to come up in a book about the universe given the number of times that pi appears in other formulae in most branches of science.

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:56:00 +0000

The bible is silent on mobile phones.

By: eiskrystal

eiskrystal — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:17:57 +0000

Meanwhile the bible has all the answers. And the answers never change.

According to the Bible, which mobile phone should I buy?

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 07:04:58 +0000

Of course this just means that the scientists were wrong once again. First dinosaurs didn’t have feathers, now they do. First birds were in a group of their own, now they are in with the dinosaurs. When will they ever make up their minds.
Meanwhile the bible has all the answers. And the answers never change.

By: jre

jre — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:29:07 +0000

… a typo is afoot …

A pity, since with that number he could have hit C or F.

By: quarksparrow

quarksparrow — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:46:12 +0000

@elmer mccurdy: Beaks are much lighter than jaws with teeth (keratin vs bone), so even to a predatory bird, it’s advantageous to be toothless.

Though as it is, there’s evidence that birds have lost the genes required to produce functional teeth: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/246/