Tell us about the dinosaurs

[rjh4 is back]

Since I get a lot of emails every week, could you refresh my memory as to who you are (name or email address)? I do my best to stay on top of my email discussions and answer every question, but some can and do get missed. I'm pretty sure I've answered all the creationism emails I've been receiving, but it's possible I've dropped yours somehow.

Arcanus,

I resent the e-mail that you previously did not answer along with another a couple of days ago. Is your e-mail working?

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This was refuted by galileo who dropped a ball and a feather off the leaning tower of piza (mmmm Piza).

I looked this up. Apparently, at least some think Galileo didn't actually perform any such experiment. Furthermore, from what I could find any such experiment was with two balls (cannon and wooden) anyway, not a ball and a feather. I would think that if one did the experiment (dropping two objects from the tower of Pisa) with a ball (say a baseball) and a feather, the ball would reach the ground first (and significantly faster). I think the wind resistance would cause the feather to reach its terminal velocity quicker than the baseball and would have a slower terminal velocity than the baseball. To properly perform the experiment, one would have to do it in a vacuum. In one of the websites I found there was a video of a hammer and a feather being dropped on the moon.