Re: Warm-Blooded debate

[Sean Connell <thelip@flash.net>]

Swift Claw wrote:
> 
> Douglas W. Lewis wrote:
> 
> >      I personally do not see any evidence that dinosaurs were ectothermic.
> >
> 
> This is true.  Out of the argument whether they were warm-blooded or
> cold-blooded, all that comes from the cold-blooded side is defense!
> Why the warm-blooded evidence COULD be wrong, although they provide no
> evidence of their own.  What kind of closed-minded people could possibly
> belive in such a weak argument as that?
The idea itself has a sad beginning.It was part of the early "Dinos as
just big lizards" B.S...Back when they were proposing all sorts of silly
notions like sprawling sauropods and breaking tails so they could have
tripod porkers instead of balanced bipeds.They wanted to make dinos into
big slow genetically deformed monstosities because they weren't mammals
and therefore not close to "The One Perfect Creature" (man).Yes this is
a simplified explanation but that's is where many of the ideas like
ectothermic dinos got started.                                                  
Rant Concluded >G<, Sean C.