(August 27, 2010 at 12:43 pm)theophilus Wrote: Most people believe that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before there were any humans but there is some evidence that this belief is false.It is acknowledged within the scientific community that not 100% of all dinosaurs were extinguished during the extinction event 65 million years ago. Many of them survive today, such as crocodiles, monitor lizards, and many birds.
Nearly all cultures have stories of dragons. The discriptions of these beasts resemble those of dinosaurs.
What you won't find are creatures like the Apatosaur, Spinosaur, or Deinonychus romping around anymore. The oxygen content of the air has changed in the millions of years since that have disallowed certain animals from being functional parts of nature.
In that sense, we're living with dinosaurs now, but it's more likely than not that what you won't find is natives riding Deinonychus in the fossil record anytime soon.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
