Dinosaurs occupied a variety of trophic levels, and while I have seen evolutionists throw up a lot fantastic ideas and "theories," none of them have provided a mechanism that would explain why dinosaurs are supposedly extinct in light of how diverse they were and how many niches they filled.
The fact is that there are parts of the world where the natives will tell you that some types of dinosaurs are still alive, and there are plenty of artistic depictions of dinosaurs and people struggling with dinosaurs from around the world and through time.
Evolutionists are so eager to bolster their subjectively derived timeframe for "pre-history" that if they find any new discovery they assume it is extinct and place it in their timeline. And often times ambitious people take advantage of their eagerness by selling the bogus specimens or doctored specimens.
You seem to have chosen to accept the brand of evolutionism peddled by the public school system. There are evolutionists who are a bit more analytical and slower to leap to assumptions. Like the guys who wrote the book on the Mokele-mbembe for example. The Mokele-Mbembe is definitely something that deserves study and protection, but if everyone had your mentality no one would even bother to check up on it.
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Bollocks. What has mkele mbembe got to do with it?
And even if a few dinosaurs did somehow survive to the modern day hidden in the depths of the rainforest, how would that disprove evolution? If that was likely, surely the rediscovery of the coelocanth would have disproved evolution. It didn't though.
I'm sorry, I'm too busy getting protection orders on fairy grottos to think about Mokele-Mbembe at the moment. Given the sterling work these selfless little creatures do, taking away our baby-teeth, making shoes for poor cobblers, taking deprived and abused children to balls, etc. I think saving their homes from thoughtless destruction should take priority, don't you?
Alligators are prehistoric! Everything you know is wrong! I'm basing my bullshit philosophy on Wally Gator! Alligators used to be intelligent and be able to talk and wear hats.
Go ahead you Fred Flintstone fans, prove that they weren't! You know where you can stick that banana Kent! I'm starting my own museum showing how God was a reptile.
I accept PayPal.
Mokèlé-mbèmbé: meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language, is the name given to a large water dwelling cryptid found in legends and folklore of the Congo River basin.It is sometimes described as a living creature and sometimes as a spirit. It could be considered loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe
Yeah, let's study mythological creatures!
Idiot.
"I have seen evolutionists throw up a lot fantastic ideas and "theories," none of them have provided a mechanism that would explain why dinosaurs are supposedly extinct "
Let me demonstrate a mechanism by dropping a 12 ton rock on your head.
...none of them have provided a mechanism that would explain why dinosaurs are supposedly extinct in light of how diverse they were and how many niches they filled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT_event
Well, they haven't been recorded scientifically, so if they're there we don't know about them. If they are there (which is a slim possibility, google "living fossil") that does nothing to support creationism or disprove evolutionary theory. In fact, they would be quite interesting to study to see how they managed to survive when so many of their cousins didn't.
Holy shit it's jmsnooks again! I remember submitting this guy's stuff years ago! It all started when I found him on DeviantArt telling one of our guys* all about how easily he could beat him up. It was the epitome on Internet Tough Guy!
*(meaning he was debunking creationist nonsense)
Wasn't this LoneWolf's favorite site to spew his gibberish?
Also, dinosaurs are not extinct. They evolved into birds, so suck on that bitch.
"The fact is that there are parts of the world where the natives will tell you that some types of dinosaurs are still alive"
Yes some dinosaurs are still are and they are pretty much everywhere, we call them birds. You may even be able to see for yourself if you look out of the window. Non avian dinosaurs however became extinct 65 million years ago.
"there are plenty of artistic depictions of dinosaurs and people struggling with dinosaurs from around the world and through time."
And there's plenty of catgirl art out there too.
But alas, it can never be. *sigh*
"You seem to have chosen to accept the brand of evolutionism peddled by the public school system."
Brand? Evolution isn't Linux, we're not running distributions here. It's pretty much a single concept that is widely agreed to be true and supported by evidence. The more specific conclusions about birds and dinosaurs are unrelated to the validity of evolution as a scientific theory.
"light of how diverse they were and how many niches they filled"
Surely one of those niches was called "food" to mankind, and they left traces of their aquiring and eating of that kind of food. ..no?
I swear there's some kind of stupid competition going on. Who can be the most stupid without drowning in their shower. Or people saw Idiocracy and thought "good idea".
WTF is going on? If you have a degree you're an "elitist" and that's bad, but having a chimp in charge of nuclear weapons is good?
You know, with the advent of the internet, it's not like there's anything keeping YOU from putting together a reasoned argument against all the ideas you think are so stupid.
Then post it on your blog or YouTube.
Now you can't say scientists are censoring you.
After that, people will respond to your work. If it's worthwhile, people will build on your ideas. If it's unresearched, illogical garbage, then people will do what they have done every other time they've read a creationist paper: laugh it off and continue to think religiously-based science is stupid fairytale nonsense.
Dinosaurs do still exist; look out of any window and you'll see them. (Hint: we call them 'birds').
As for your 'Mokele-Mbembe', I'm sure biologists would be falling over each other to study it, if someone would be kind enough to produce a specimen.
"The Mokele-Mbembe is definitely something that deserves study and protection, but if everyone had your mentality no one would even bother to check up on it."
The Mokele-Mbembe came to light back when sauropods were thought to be aquatic, and since it's clearly based on that it's therefore automatically suspect.
Not to mention that if any dinosaurs had survived, it wouldn't have any impact on evolutionary theory for the same reason the coelocanth didn't...
Come on, I saw a dinosaur's nephew/niece singing in my backyard and using the birdbath.
As to this post, who is a deviantTard to say about fantastic ideas.
Also, more misinformation about what a theory is, it sure ain't what you tell your drinking buddies at the bar Holmes.
I got one in the garage. It has meat-rending teeth and claws but it prefers to eat chickpeas and chives. Its name is Rover, cos I found it in the field munching the clover, and Rover rhymes with clover. I don't know if it's a boy or a girl. I think it's a tyrannosaurus domesticus from the northern highlands of Scotland.
We got a plague of brontosauruses on our front lawn. I tried putting traps down for them but they don't seem to be taking the bait. Maybe they don't like cheese. Still, it could be worse, Mrs Cribbins next door has got mammoths in her larder and stegosauruses in the skirting boards. Ouch! That's a bummer.
Even worse, the old man Roberts down the street has a bad case of of parasitic triceratops and has had to shave off all his pubic hair. Things are definitely getting worse for him, last year his only problem was pubic hares. And now this.
This marvelous age of dinosaurs can certainly be irritating sometimes.
Love and peace, Pule.
Someone else there said that their grandfather killed an Ichthyosaurus, a prehistoric reptile that looked exactly like a dolphin.
Occam's razor would have cut that guy to pieces.
Please understand, the guy who "wrote the book" on Mokele-mbembe has a very strong incentive to get you to believe it, but when it comes to science, we are going to ask for evidence, not just opinion. And if it exists (or existed) that doesn't do any damage to the theory of evolution at all, so that leaves the author as the ONLY person with an incentive to lie about it.
The "variety of trophic levels" were destroyed after a meteor hit Earth. That's the "mechanism" that most scientists have provided as explanation for why dinosaurs became extinct.
Some types of dinosaurs are still alive, yes; the ones that evolved into birds. The natives of most parts of the world have seen a bird.
Cretinists are so eager to bolster their subjectively derived time-frame for The Flood, that they put every non-cretinists in some imaginary great big conspiracy called "evolutionism". It's not "evolutionism", dolt, it's just basic Biology.
If everyone had your mentality, snooky, we'd have no computers, no Internet, no electricity. We'd be hiding in caves, scared of Mokele-mbemebe, Mylings, Huldras, Yetis, etc.
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