Re: K-T impact theory

[brucet@mindspring.com (bruce thompson)]

>King, Norm wrote:
>>
>> This discussion, in its most recent form, began with a logical error that
>> is very very very very common in debates.  You cite an "authority" who
>> says something rather extreme about some hypothesis of theory, then
>> proceed to demolish whatever the claim was.  Then you say, "See?  The
>> theory can't possibly be true."
>
>Mr. Miller's claim is not extreme.  It is typical of the ideas being
>pushed by pro-impact people.
>
>-- JSW

        The new book "The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals
Disappeared" has a few asides on the science and politics of the competing
K-T extinction theories.  Sounds like it can get pointed, especially in
open forums.

bruce



        "Dammit, Philbert; what kind of a lepidopterist are you?  For god's 
sake,
man; stand up to them!"