What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? Um... According to the Right Winger Creationists... they went on Noah's Arc.
Anyone remember Jurassic Park? Hard to imagine a pair of T-Rex a pair of Velociraptors and a pair of goats all surviving on Noah's Arc.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period) and Box is trying to get them on Noah's Ark.
Nope! Not me. I'm a science guy... it's the Rabid Right Creationists who are pushing the Noah's Arc Dogma.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The only thing we need to know about dinosaurs is that they died and their carcasses, along with loads of other biomass material, were squeezed by 10s of thousands of years of earth's pressure into fossil fuels that we should be drilling for EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE that we can find it, and the using those fuels to drive our cars and trucks, heat our homes, generate electricity and every thing else that the petrochemical industry can think of to use that "black gold" for.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
On the other side of the isle, I see Tawana Brawley is getting her wages garnished to finally start paying damages to Steven Pegones for ruining his reputation as well as his marriage with her fairy tale story of rape and racism with co-conspirators Al Sharpton and his band of now discredited attorneys... Just goes to show you there are kooks on both wings...
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
The only thing we need to know about dinosaurs is that they died and their carcasses, along with loads of other biomass material, were squeezed by 10s of thousands of years of earth's pressure into fossil fuels that we should be drilling for EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE that we can find it, and the using those fuels to drive our cars and trucks, heat our homes, generate electricity and every thing else that the petrochemical industry can think of to use that "black gold" for.
I'm amazed!
Now for some FACTS:
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There are no dinosaurs in oil. Some dinosaurs may have rotted and made natural gas. The probability of a large body of a dinosaur not decaying upon burial due to the actions of bacteria is extremely low. The organic material that makes oil has to be preserved from bacterial action by lack of oxygen in the sediment where it is buried, and a large body like a dinosaur would already have bacteria in it that would decompose it immediately upon death.
Oil is generated from the remains of microscopic plants and animals, called phytoplankton and zooplankton.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I love Box's "facts". "May" have made natural gas...And "probability is extremely low". No room for questions there - JUST FACTS!LOL
Quoted Text
There are no dinosaurs in oil. Some dinosaurs may have rotted and made natural gas. The probability of a large body of a dinosaur not decaying upon burial due to the actions of bacteria is extremely low. The organic material that makes oil has to be preserved from bacterial action by lack of oxygen in the sediment where it is buried, and a large body like a dinosaur would already have bacteria in it that would decompose it immediately upon death.
Oil is generated from the remains of microscopic plants and animals, called phytoplankton and zooplankton.
Ken Ham is like an unsavory politician. He says different things to different audiences, pandering to constituencies for his own personal gain!!!!! Just like our sleezy left and right wing government!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
First - you really don't have a sense of humor .. sad but true.
Second - SOME fossil fuel may have come from dinosaurs ... or it may not have. Some may have come from tiny marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago ... or it may not have. Scientists, themselves, are still arguing this point because they really don't know all the answers.
For one thing, their weren't enough dinosaurs or even those tiny marine plants and animals to actually physically account for the all of the known fossil fuel reserves around the world.
For another, fossil fuel deposits have been found well below where dinosaur or marine plant and animal remains would have been left -- so where did that oil and other fossil fuels come from?
Bottomline, I was making a point. I really don't give a hoot what happened to the dinosaurs. However, I am concerned where our nation's energy supply is and will come from, and I think we should exploit the fossil fuel resources that we have WHEREVER we find them.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
I love Box's "facts". "May" have made natural gas...And "probability is extremely low". No room for questions there - JUST FACTS!LOL
Sorry dude, but he's correct. Do you have any idea of how many dinosaurs it would have taken to create the massive amount of oil that exists below the earth's surface? Their population would have had to be more dense than that of insects. By the way, there would have had to be over 3 million species of insects on that arc as well.
Besides, the dinosaurs pretty much all decayed on the surface.
Yeah, yeah, I know, they died in the tar pits. So where did the tar pits come from, dinosaurs?
Sorry dude, but he's correct. Do you have any idea of how many dinosaurs it would have taken to create the massive amount of oil that exists below the earth's surface? Their population would have had to be more dense than that of insects. By the way, there would have had to be over 3 million species of insects on that arc as well.
Besides, the dinosaurs pretty much all decayed on the surface.
Yeah, yeah, I know, they died in the tar pits. So where did the tar pits come from, dinosaurs?
I was just pointing out that box posts statements with words that leave room for questioning like "may" and "low probability" and calls it fact. It makes me laugh, because he starts a thread mocking a religious theory about dinosaurs, and then posts a scientific theory about the origins of oil and calls it fact.
Believing either of the theories as fact is just faith. Some people worship science some people worship a god. Some people worship neither.
bottom line here is that boxy hand picked Ham, who is looked at as your basic politician...not a religious zelot...nor even creditable!! again.....Ham says different things to different audiences, pandering to constituencies for his own personal gain!!!!! Just like our sleezy left and right wing government
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Typical elitist academic... Telling you how you should think about the world and raise your kids...
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown