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Old 02-06-2002, 05:49 PM   #100
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"Raidiometric dating is an estimate"

No it isn't. It is a perfectly scalable, reliable and accurate method of determining age. Exaplin to me everything you know about radiometric dating and why it is an estimate, and I will explain to you why it is not.

"Humans are smart enough to know not to be anywhere near dinosaurs"

60 km of horizontally deposited rock apart? Wow, that's very smart; the humans must have either lived floating 60km in the air, or they must have forced the dinosours to live 60km beneath the surface of the earth... in the upper mantle, at about 1500 degress celsius. That is indeed pretty clever. Or total nonsense, depending on how you look at it.

"This is a different level of brain power. Humans may know that fire hurts, hell, a 4 month old baby could figure that out if it touched it, but can he figure out how to paint on cave walls eaisilly?"

So... how does this prove that dinosurs co-existed with humans? How come they managed to paint pics of themselves and mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers and yet totally forgot about those huge lumbering reptiles which would have provided an excellent source of food?

Oh yeah, I was forgetting... the dinosuars are busy combusting at the base of the lithopshere at this point. Silly me.

"nothing is full proof"

You are right; nothing can ever be proven. I cannot say "I think therefore I am"; this only proves that I believe myself to be thinking, and philosophers aren't even sure about that.

But don't you find it mre likely that theories that actually make scientific sense are true, rather than some deity who can also never be proved (not to the extent you demand of science anyway)? It is all a matter of perspective.
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