Re: An Popular New Branch Of Dinosaur Study

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Garrison Hilliard (garrison@efn.org) wrote:

<..."proof" that the creatures died in a flood. Evidence is seen in
geological strata and the animals' sudden deaths.>

  How quaint. I wonder how the geology can determine "sudden" when in the
span of an hour by predation, or two or three days by attritution, or
minutes by drowning. I wonder if he's an expert in taphonomy.... Maybe the
"floating" ankylosaurs from the inland sea of the Campanian will be touted
as evidence of a flood, since "ankylosaurs don't swim." Yet still, a
"credible" timescale doesn't exist (Hovind's doesn't count) that has
determination of time other than shoving the period of the geological
column onto a thousand-years scale, and not million-years scale....

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


                
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