That guy who has the museum in Kentucky showing dinosaurs and people living together is right. The dinosaurs had heavier bones, so when they died they sank deeper in the ground than the people, who had lighter bones. And the carbon deeper in the ground is older than the carbon in the upper zones, so therefore when the bones suck up that carbon it will give a false reading on the bones' age.
That's the coyote theory and you can take it to the bank.
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"That's the coyote theory, and you can take it to the bank"
Why? Are bank tellers in such a need of a laugh that you have to exclude everyone else?
Elephants, whales and Sequoias, when they day today, they are found is easily as a human being or a deer. It's a fucking reality.
I saw a coyote while running through the park the other day. Two, actually. They crossed the path ahead of me and kept going. Didn't say a damn thing about carbon or dinosaur bones but I think, maybe, they might have been talking with a jackrabbit. He was leading them. What do you think they have planned? Are the woodland animals forming some kind of rebellion to rise up against their human oppressors? It's time to be afraid.
You misunderstand the process of fossilisation, and you neglected to explain why the carbon deep underground is millions of years old. Also, the depth to which something will sink is not dependent on it's weight but it's density and shape - that's why even huge boats don't sink in water. If I recall my biology correctly, massive dinosaurs would have had slightly less dense bones (someone correct me on this if it isn't true).
In short, you're shit.
therefore when the bones suck up that carbon it will give a false reading on the bones' age
Dinosaur bones can't be dated by carbon - carbon is only used for stuff less than 50,000 or so years old.
Also, carbon dating relies on the fact that bones stop "sucking up carbon" after the animal dies (dead animal don't eat much).
And some dinosaurs were as small as a chicken. They died off and were fossilized, too.
Finally, the fossils didn't get where they are by sinking. They got there by dying on the surface and later being covered up.
Hmmmm interesting theory. Now let's compare two very different dinosaurs. Ankylosaurus was a big plant eating dinosaur known for the bony growths along it's back it used for defense. It's bones where increadibly large and heavy. Velociraptor was a small meat eating dinosaur that stood only a meter high and had hollow bones similar to a birds. IF you're right Ankylosaurus should be found much further down the fossil record then Velociraptor, but sadly for you they are both found together in the Cretaceous period. NEXT!
Not only did they live together, apparently, but not one human decided to write about said dinosaurs in any works of literature. Instead, man chose to raise livestock and herd sheep during this harmonious time with T. Rex, Allosaurus, and Torvosasurus, and somehow prevented these mammoth animals were from eating said livestock and humans on a regular basis.
Well, wilebill, I'll take it to the bank when you write a peer reviewed research paper and win the consensus of scientists. Until then, STFU. Thank you.
The dinosaurs had heavier bones, so when they died they sank deeper in the ground than the people, who had lighter bones.
Looks like someone doesn't understand how fossils are created.
you can take it to the bank
Seriously, how can you fail at so many branches of science in one hit? That takes special effort.
Birds have been discovered as far back as 150 million years or so, alongside the bones of very much heavier dinosaurs.
Birds, of course, have very light bones, much less dense than people's. Which is why birds can fly and people can't, dumbass!
The retard is strong on that forum, but then, it is in Mississippi, deep in the Bible Belt, where the gene pool runs shallow.
"The dinosaurs had heavier bones, so when they died they sank deeper in the ground than the people, who had lighter bones."
That's why the titanic sank. It was so much bigger and heavier than little sailboats it sank on it's first trip.
Don't you just hate having heavy cars? Why, whenever you drive on a dirt road instead of a normal/paved one, because of their extra weight, they just sink a couple of metres into the ground. Terribly inconvenient.
If I place a heavy object on the ground, say, a huge fucking skyscraper, does this mean that it will sink into the ground and absorb carbon from the ground-just to appear older than it is to confu-- STOP THIS TOMFOOLERY, MY HEAD FUCKING HURTS!!!!
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Many dinosaurs had very lightweight bones. The larger ones developed lighter bones to reduce their weight and the strength required to keep their bodies going, and the therapods found the lightness increased their speed. The smaller therapods evolved into birds, and those lightweight bones really came in handy for that.
“The dinosaurs had heavier bones, so when they died they sank deeper in the ground than the people, who had lighter bones.”
And their young had the same bone density as the adults? Their egg shells? fossils of those are found at the same level as the bodies. Not to mention their nests.
But i’ll bet you could sell tickets to the demonstration of how dinosaur footprints sank deeper than mammal footprints due to bone density.
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