I love dinosaurs; always have. So when I saw a report that a “bizarre” new dinosaur had been discovered in Chile ( http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/27/bizarre-jurassic-dinosaur-chilesaurus-diegosuarezi-discovered-in-remarkable-new-find ), I hastened to read all about it.
“New” dinosaurs are being discovered all the time. It’s exciting. This one, Chilesaurus, is neat because it has the skeletal structure of a meat-eating dinosaur (theropod) but the skull and teeth of a plant-eater (sauropod–and sauropods and theropods both belong to a larger group of dinosaurs, the lizard-hipped… but I digress).
OK, Chilesaurus is new. What’s old is the way “science journalists” and the alleged scientists they interview talk about it.
The creature’s odd mix of parts, says the article by The Guardian’s science editor, show “an extreme example of mosaic convergent evolution, where different parts of an animal adapt to the environment along the same path taken by other creatures.” You’d almost think he’d actually observed it. Lemme see, now–my nose is gonna follow this path of evolution, kinda like a tapir’s nose, and my neck wants to follow this other path, like a giraffe… man, am I a mess…
But a real scientist easily outdoes this bit of verbage:
“It shows that dinosaurs were experimenting with a wide range of body types…”
This is a singularly asinine group of words. The dinosaurs were experimenting? OK, first we’ll try this body type, and run it through a couple of tests, and then we’ll try that one…
None of this stuff, including the dinosaurs themselves, has ever been observed by a living human being. There are no records to consult. We have wonderful fossil remains which move us to speculate–wisely, we hope–as to what the animals were like when they were living. But we’re laden down with this old Theory of Evolution that has to be defended at all costs, lest the wise men of the world have to answer for the crimes committed in its name, and they keep shoe-horning the dinosaurs into it.
Maybe if scientists stopped talking through their hats, I might try listening to them again.
How could dinosaurs ‘experiment with a wide range of body types’ when evolutionary change of even the smallest thing is supposed to take who knows how many years? And did the dinosaurs all get together and decide to experiment on the same body type in one millenium, and a new body type in the next thousand years?
Evolution is so stupid that it makes me feel a bit stupid even trying to take them seriously enough to refute their statements.
And who funded all those experiments?
I know what you mean, Laura. I seldom argue with these blind ignoramuses any more. There is none so blind as one who WILL not see.
Maybe they were playing dress up.
Experimenting dinosaurs? The myth becomes ever more preposterous.
Experimenting with different body types? So we’re dealing with transosaurs now? Or just dieting dinosaurs?
Lol, Phoebe!
Recently I read somewhere that actual dinosaur tissue was found and their hope is to use the DNA to manipulate a dinosaur into existence once again. Dr. Frankenstein or Jurassic Park – either way, the whole thing is nuts!
They’ve got soft tissue from many prehistoric animals now; but the scientist who first discovered it had some hard traveling until she was vindicated.
Pokes a gaping hole in many of their theories.
Oh, they’ve thought up some excuses by now. But when Dr. Schweizter (a Christian) first announced her discovery, they accused her of not knowing ordinary bathtub ring bacteria from genuine dino soft tissue. But after dozens more found the tissue in many fossils, they had to admit she was right.
You just reminded me – she did a video presentation that I watched.