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Post by thagomizer on Oct 21, 2008 1:41:39 GMT
;D ;D ;D (enters a generic paleontologist) "Mmh...I wonder why i haven't thought about it yet..." ;D ;D ;D *Imagines mother quetzalcoatlus telling her children, "Boys, don't "enjoy yourselves" too much or you'll go blind, suffer from beak wear, or be unable to fly!"* ;D You do realize this whole "pterosaurs can't fly" thing is being put forward by a non-paleontologist, and all the dinosaurologists are disagreeing. Why agree with them about this and then say they're total idiots on every other topic? It seems to me you're just flat-out mocking all the ideas you personally don't like based on aesthetics, and then pretending everybody putting them forward is on the same side, opposed to you, when in fact all these ideas are being put forward by various factions who may or may not agree with the other factions. Only in your mind is this "Piltdown vs dinosaurologists". It's Piltdown vs everybody Piltodwon disagrees with for any number of reasons with no discernible standard for comparison, who Piltdown pretends are some kind of grand cabal. Standard tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist logical nonsense.
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Post by bustosdomecq on Oct 21, 2008 1:44:41 GMT
Because the ideas similarly propounded by dinosaurologists of late have been just as idiotic.
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Post by thagomizer on Oct 21, 2008 1:46:20 GMT
Because the ideas similarly propounded by dinosaurologists of late have been just as idiotic. But apparently not the one about how this non-dinosaurologist study is total BS. If all the dinosaurologists are wrong, why are they right on this? Or is your argument with the scientific system of publication? In which case you shouldn't agree with any scientific theories at all and be agnostic on everything.
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Post by bustosdomecq on Oct 21, 2008 1:47:06 GMT
What do you mean, based on aesthetics? What, do you think I judge an idea based solely on how good it will look on a dinosaur toy? Speak for yourself.
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Post by bustosdomecq on Oct 21, 2008 1:50:17 GMT
Indeed the standards of scientific publications by dinosaurologists I've read of late have been miserable. Happy now? They certainly haven't been any better than the 'pterosaurs can't fly' nonsense.
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Post by stoneage on Oct 21, 2008 21:10:28 GMT
;D Thag why do you say Dinosaurologist when the word doesn't exist.
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