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Re: Theories on the extinction of dinosaurs
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
Bois said:
>> Extrapolating from that to a world-wide instantaneous
>> extinction is un-scientific.
>
> Fair enough. Meanwhile, please indicate anywhere in the world where
> dinosaurs are known to have survived into the Paleocene.
I predict it. I am still in the hypothesis-forming stage. You have moved
on to a position which, given current evidence, is untenable. Simply, the
null hypothesis: Dinosaurs became extinct at different times in different
places, is not falsifiable using a single data point.