There are thousands of eyewitnesses around the world who have described seeing dinosaurs, there are no eye-witnesses who have seen evolution. So the evidence is tipped in our favor. There are evolutionists who believe in dinosaurs, they are called Cryptozoologists.
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Take a deep breath and calm down, kid- seems you smoked a bit too much Jesus.
(..maybe I should make 'smoking too much Jesus' into a catchphrase..)
True, there are evolutionists who believe in dinosaurs, it's just that they think they died out at the K-T boundary (except for birds).
Cryptozoologists are also out hunting for big foot, the lochness monster, and yetis. So far they have failed, just as they can't find any dinosaurs either.
As to thousands having seen dinosaurs?
Actually, there is some evidence of seeing evolution - or at least selection processes going on right in the US in the past 100 years or more.
Google, "rattlesnake roundup" or "quiet rattlesnakes" they'll probably get you to a few studies... I'm just lazy.
A summary: Human intervention in rattlesnake roundups have caused all the "loud" rattlesnakes to be removed from the breeding pool - they are easiest to find, catch, and kill. The "quiet" rattlesnakes are left in the pool and have bred and now, generations later, humans are in much, much more danger of getting a bite because the natural warning system has been changed by our own stupid intervention. This is bad for everyone as snakes shouldn't waste venom on us (that's why they warn stupid animals first, they want to save it for a meal, not save their own skin) and we shouldn't be making snakes that are too quiet and easily stepped on. There are tons of these examples in the herp world, this is a well known one and shows there is no limit to human stupidity too.
PS I've seen a dino too - its called a croc
There are thousands of eyewitnesses around the world who have described seeing dinosaurs
jmsnooks, Jurassic Park was *not* a documentary. Neither was the Lord of the Rings. Sorry to burst your bubble.
@Painful, I did not know that. There is some evidence that ivory poaching in Africa is causing a trend toward elephants with smaller, or no, tusks.
Me too! I saw dinosaurs ... well what was left of them ... at the Museum of Natural History.
And there are some small descendants of dinosaurs outside my window at this very moment. I think I'll throw them some bread crumbs.
Any one who's dwelt with dandelions in the lawn has had a bitch slap from evolution. They all used to be long and easy to mow down. That subspecies is now rare, growing only where lawnmowers don't go, like train tracks. Now, lawn dwellers are down at the sod line. There's even a brand new city species with heavy seeds that has a better chance in finding city dirt.
No eye-witnesses for evolution? That's cuz evolution is one of them Murphy's Laws that fucks your plans up when your not looking.
Yeah, I've seen dinosaurs many times. I have all three Jurassic Park movies. As a matter of fact I've also seen cave men. They sell car insurane. In all seriousness dude, that magical box mommy got for you is a television. Not everything you see in it is real and no, there are not little people living inside of it.
Cryptozoology is quackery, jmsnooks. It's a name fantasy beast hunters give themselves to try and sound legitimate. If there were any evidence at all for still living dinos, bigfoot, the moth man, the yeti, etc. it would be studied by legitimate zoologists.
Once again meet the pizzly. A cross between a Grizzly and a Polar Bear. Up to recently these two species never met (proof of global warming, but that's another argument). Now they are interbreeding. Note that these are two different species and the offspring was sexually viable. This is probably the only hope polar bears currently have.
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are no eye-witnesses who have seen evolution.
Out of that entire word salad, snookums, this is about the only thing that had any basis in reality.
"eyewitnesses around the world who have described seeing dinosaurs"
They should have taken video, maybe I would believe them.
Science utterly rejects personal testimony, which includes supposed eyewitnesses. Anecdotal evidence is at best grounds for a proper study and an attempt to obtain actual, repeatable, scientifically valid evidence.
So the evidence is tipped in our favor.
Seeing dinosaurs doesn't tip evidence in favor of talking snakes and women made out of ribs. The discovery of living coelacanths after being missing for 65 million years didn't change the ToE - why would the discovery of a living dinosaur change it?
There are also thousands of people who saw UFOs or have seen Elvis after his death, alive and well.
2 billion people believe in Christianity.
4.7 billion people don't.
So the evidence is tipped in our favor.
I feel that someone should stand up cryptozoologists here. Yes there are a few nutters on the fringe but a lot of them do some good work. Just because they investigate these supposed sightings, doesn't mean they actually believe there are dinosauurs etc. What they go looking for is evidence of what creature led to these sightings.
As it happens, the giant squid, gorillas and the okapi were all thought thought be mythical creatures which spawned all sorts of stories from eyewitnesses...until cryptozoologist went looking and found the truth.
So, an evolutionist who believes in dinosaurs may be a nutty cryptozoologist but most cryptozoologists will take the eyewitness accounts as evidence that something odd was seen and nothing more. what they will want to do is go and look and find out what is causing the sightings.
Um, the "living dinosaur" this guy drew to make a point is a legend, according to Wikipedia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe
Kind of hard to make a credible point using something that probably doesn't exist. >.>
Motto of the British Royal Society, the oldest scientific establishment in the world.
Nullias In Verbia
I.e. take nobody's word for it. Even in 1660, when the RS was founded, they understood that eye-witnesses are worth sweet Fannie-Mae as evidence.
There are millions who have recounted their eyewitness experiences of seeing ET!
Does that make living-amongst-us ETs more likely than living dinosaurs?
Did your god make the ETs too? He doesn't say in the babble.
Let me guess..you just came fresh out of a church service havent you. Calm down, catch your breath. I know you're excited.
Now son, I dont know how to tell you this lightly, but cryptozologists are full of crap...just like your preacher..
cryptozoology is the 'study of unknown animals'. there are, and will always be, animals and forms of life we have not yet discovered. cryptozoologists do not believe that dinosaurs still roam the earth. get your fucking facts straight.
Umm.. who would be those dinosaur eyewitnesses be? Haven't yet heard of even a single one. And, evolution is witnessed all the time, even as we speak. It's a constantly ongoing process, very slow one though. But if you could comprehend longer timespans than, say, your own life, you'd get the picture.
"There was one time, I was chased by the number 3."
Beats being chased by pi, there is no end to it!
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