(April 27, 2015 at 2:02 am)Razzle Wrote: I'd actually have more respect for an assertion that dinosaur fossils are part of a conspiracy, than I do for the common young Earth belief that the dinosaurs were rounded up and rode with Noah. I'd rank it as the more plausible of the two.
I seem to recall some Christians who believed that the dinosaurs were left off the ark, and that is why they died. I don't have a link for that, as it is going on memory from before the internet.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.