Quote:New evidence shows a different meteor killed dinosaurs By Ernest Gill
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Sunday November 12, 2006
By Ernest Gill, Hamburg- In a scenario resembling the dramatic conclusion to a TV crime drama, paleo-forensics experts have produced new evidence to show that the dinosaurs were bumped off by a different meteor than the one that has received the rap for their extinction. The German palaeontologists insist that a mysterious meteor or comet must have done the deadly deed - long after the notorious Yucatan meteor that has hitherto been blamed.
Oh "must have" yep that sounds like science and NOT like some wishful thinking. What ever happen to "I don't know" being an acceptable answer? What shape is the Earth? A long time ago some bumbled head who didn't read the Bible said "oh it's flat". Why? He had no clue...he just wanted people to like him and get his name in the paper or yelled out at the street corner. What should have been done, ooo nope..you thought I was going to say go with the Bible answer...nope, the answer "We don't know yet" should have been said and then scientific study should have been done. However I will let the flat earthers off on this since the scientific method wasn't put into wide use until much later when Descartes, a Christian, came up with it basically.
Quote:Until now, it has been accepted generally that the Chicxulub impact off the coast of Mexico 65 million years ago wiped out the dinosaurs. Evidence of the crater left by the giant asteroid or comet has been found under the sea off the coast of Yucatan.
There are craters all over the world...big ones. Why big just this random one? Oh that's right...cause it's science. I understand science changes...I do. Yet I think we can all agree that there are good theories and there are bad theories. If we are going to accept all theories as good then I want my theory that dinos were zapped into Jello and I can prove this because there is jello in the world and tree sap is sticky...obviously from the dinos eating themselves by the trees. My jello theory is just as likely as a comet or big rock killing them if we are just going to randomly guess here. Scientists see a big hole and say...ope this killed the dinos. Well why not say Mt. Everest came from space and killed them off as well?
Quote:But a group of scientists led by Professor Gerta Keller of Princeton and Professor Wolfgang Stinnesbeck of the University of Karlsruhe begged to differ. They uncovered a series of geological clues which suggests the truth may be far more complicated.
Woa wait! We can't have complicated answers! Occam's razor says that the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one! Science goes along with this all the time, esp when they don't want to debate God.
Quote:In short, they say that the crater in the Yucatan is too old to have killed off the dinosaurs. Yucatan took the rap for a dino murder that occurred much later.
So did the dinos survive that one? Man it's almost like if they could survive this huge butt one that everyone thought wiped them about they could do it again...right? Oh just read the next part.
Quote:However, no-one has yet found the crater from the "real culprit" impact which ended the Age of Reptiles and caused one of the largest mass extinctions in history.
OK THIS IS BULLCRAP!!! I can't believe in a loving perfect Being. But they can believe in a hole that no one has seen?! F-N BULLCRAP!
Quote:"There is some evidence that it may have hit in India," says Dr. Keller. The crater, named Shiva by one expert, is estimated to measure 500 kilometres (over 300 miles) in diameter. However, at this time there is little proof of its existence.
Keller says marine microfossils in sediments drilled from the ocean floor show that Chicxulub hit Earth 300,000 years before the mass extinction it was supposed to have caused.
The small marine animals that produced the microfossils escaped virtually unscathed.
Tiny, frail creatures survived? It almost sounds like that many other things could easily survive as well. Oh...wait I forgot...we KNOW that a rock killed the dinos.
[/quote]The Chicxulub impact conspired with the Deccan Flood Basalt eruptions in India, a period of prolonged and intense volcanic activity, to nudge species towards the brink, said Dr Keller.
Vast amounts of greenhouse gas were pumped into the atmosphere by the Deccan volcanism over a period of more than a million years. By the time Chicxulub struck, land temperatures were seven to eight degrees Celsius warmer than they had been 20,000 earlier. [/quote]
Welp looks like we don't have to worry about the green house effect. If it took a million years to kill the dinos and it only caused the Earth to cool to 7 or 8 degrees C (how they know that is un-F-N-knowable) then it shouldn't bother anyone else. Shoot the industrial revolution only took place some 100 years ago. We have 999,900+/- years left! Take that Al Gore!
Quote:Weakened by these events, species were finally killed off by the second impact.
The previous impact theory was beautifully simple and appealing. Much of its evidence was drawn from a thin layer of rock known as the "KT boundary." This layer is 65 million years old (which is around the time when the dinosaurs disappeared) and is found around the world exposed in cliffs and mines.
It couldn't be cause when you shake a bottle of water and different rocks that the water separates and like minded rocks tend to collect...kinda like a world wide Flood, is it? Oh that's right...we're still on the big butt rock hitting us.
Quote:For supporters of the impact theory, the KT boundary layers contained two crucial clues. In 1979, scientists discovered that there were high concentrations of a rare element called iridium, which they thought could only have come from an asteroid. Right underneath the iridium was a layer of spherules, tiny balls of rock which seemed to have been condensed from rock which had been vapourised by a massive impact.
So why couldn't iridium come from the Earth as well? If we believe asteroid, man that was a fun game...ummm, are made from left over junk that weren't worthy to become planets or old planets...then how come the Earth couldn't have this same element? Oh I forgot...can't think outside mainstream theory. That would be NOT relying on AUTHORITY...like me as a Christian does. Huh?
Quote:But Keller's team concentrated on a series of rock formations in Mexico where the iridium layer was separated from the spherule layer by many metres of sandstone. Keller found evidence such as ancient worm burrows that suggested that the deposition of the sandstone had been interrupted many times.
NO! NO! TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUE!! Ohh how shall we ever date the fossils if the rocks are in the wrong place...different to what I know them to always be in. Oh that's right...I can always date the rocks by the fossils that are in them...phew.
Quote:Her team concluded that there was a gap of some 300,000 years between the deposition of the spherules (from the Chicxulub crater) and the iridium (from an asteroid). Therefore, there must have been two impacts.
You think dinos would have died from old age waiting for another giant rock to hit them again. After all we know simple life can't form in oxygen rich environments...oh but how could dinos grow that big if the Earth wasn't abundantly rich in oxygen? Well you say what had happen was....
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