Subj : Re: [OT News] Laser Could Rip a Hole in Space & Time
To : All
From : The Doctor
Date : Mon Dec 17 2012 09:00 am
From:
[email protected] (The Doctor)
In article <
[email protected]>,
John Fleming <
[email protected]> wrote:
>[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:54:02 -0800 (PST), while chained to a
>desk in the scriptorium solar penguin <
[email protected]> wrote:
>> $The Doctor wrote:
>> $> In article <
[email protected]>,
>> $> John Fleming <
[email protected]> wrote:
>> $> >[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:45:58 -0800 (PST), while chained to a
>> $> >desk in the scriptorium solar penguin <
[email protected]> wrote:
>> $> >> $The Doctor wrote:
>> $> >> $> In article <
[email protected]>,
>> $> >> $> solar penguin <
[email protected]> wrote:
>> $> >> $> >The Doctor wrote:
>
>> $> >> $> crows descended from dinosaurs? Robins? Magpies?
>> $> >> $> --
>> $> >> $
>> $> >> $Yes, that's right.
>> $> >> $
>> $> >> $Have you got _any_ evidence that they didn't?
>> $> >
>> $> >Of course he doesn't.
>> $> >
>> $> >The closest he probably gets was a trip to the Royal Alberta Museum,
>> $> >where they have a T. Rex and a Stegasaurus on display.
>> $> >
>> $> >Of course, those are at the larger end of the dinosaur spectrum of
>> $> >sizes, and it doesn't cross his mind there are some really small
>> $> >dinosaurs as well.
>> $> >
>> $> >Oh, and while he is trying to explain Archaeopteryx, he'll also have
>> $> >to explain the quill knobs on a velociraptor skeleton found in
>> $> >Mongolia.
>> $>
>> $> How about a Pterodatyl turning into a bird?
>> $>
>> $> A T.Rex into a bird? LOL!!
>> $
>> $No, of course not a T. Rex into a bird. That would be silly. The T.
>> $Rex didn't evolve until near the end of the dinosaurs' era, after the
>> $first birds had _already_ evolved.
>> $
>> $Maybe you really _do_ think time goes backwards...?
>
>Plus he jupmps onto a single example, quietly ignoring the fact
>dinosaurs were a highly diverse group of animals--probably just as
>diverse as modern mammals. (BTW, doctor, pterodactyls are not
>dinosaurs, dinosaurs being limitied to saurischia and ornithischia,
>whereas pterodactyls belong to the pterosaurs.)
>
>And let's face it, modern mammals are a pretty diverse lot. Everything
>from whales to hippopotami to mice to humans to wombats.
>
>Pointing at T. Rex and saying there is no link between dinosaurs and
>birds is like pointing at a polar bear and saying there is no way
>mammals could evolve flight--ignoring the fact that an estimated one
>fifth of mammal species are bats.
>--
>
>
>John Fleming
>Edmonton, Canada
>
>
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