Re: The Summers Theory: The General Basics

[skeptix@cyberwarped.com (Mark O'Leary)]

Barry Williams wrote:
>
> >All right, for those of you interested in my Summers Theory:
> >
> >    Facts indicate so far that dinosaurs were the first general life
> >on
> >Earth besides organisms and plants.
>
> Can't say that your theory will stand much chance of success if you begin
> with this blatantly false premise.  Dinosaurs came a long way down the
> line.  Ever heard of fish?  Ever heard of amphibians?  Ever heard of
> mammal-like reptiles?  Ever heard of trilobites?  Etc, Etc.

Or that everything mentioned on this list *is* an organism? How can
dinosaurs (organisms) be said to have come before organisms as a class
of
thing existed?!

I hope I have a full copy of this post further down in my mailbox -
its far
too long since I played with an evolutionary naif.

M.

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