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DId man walk with dinosaurs? Logic?
They must have, because they went extinct, which is bad. Now, we know that anything bad that happens in nature is exclusively human caused. Al gore types say so. So dino extinction was caused by humans, therefore men( humans ) must have existed during the time of the dinosaurs.
don't any of you recognize sarcasm?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Over 99% of all the lifeforms that have ever existed on Earth are now extinct. While Mr. Gore would like to blame all extictions on humans, it is only possible by time travel by the CIA to infest the primordial world. I believe this to be a project operated by Mr. Gore.
- 1 decade ago
This is very good example of false logic. You are trying to use a reductio ad absurdum argument: making a logical inference from a premise resulting in a falsehood, and then concluding that the premise is false. This only works if the conclusion derived from the premise is itself rigorously logical, which yours is not.
Al Gore does not say that everything bad that happens in nature is exclusively caused by humans, let alone that humans are the cause of all extinctions. This is NOT a logical conclusion from his premise that human activity causes bad things in nature. This is partly a classical example of a logical FALLACY. You are saying: Extinction is bad; people do bad things; therefore people caused extinction. This is the same as saying: Cherries are red; cranberries are red; therefore cranberries are cherries. It is like saying: Cats kill mice.; this mouse was killed; therefore a mouse killed it.
You add another, unstated, syllogism: Humans caused the extinction of dinosaurs, therefore humans walked the earth at the same time as dinosaurs. This is like saying: Hitler caused the death of millions of people. This person died; therefore Hitler must be alive to cause his death. Although logic does maintain that a cause must be "temporally prior to and spatially contiguous with" the effect, the cause/effect relationship is not established by the first syllogism.
Logic is not just "common sense." Since ancient times the difference between a logically sound and a logically false argument has been studied and understood. People have been hoodwinked by faulty logic for millennia despite the fact that knowing a few rules would avoid these mistakes.
Source(s): Any beginning philosophy book describing basic logic and logical fallacies. - Anonymous1 decade ago
Humans evolved from the mammals that survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. we came to be millions of years later. Al Gore is saying that the current global warming is caused by humans, not everything bad in history. Think about it there is no way we could have caused the mass extinction that happened before the dinosaurs, we would be way more advanced than we are today. the only reason we exist today is because of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
- 1 decade ago
It is important to understand that no one has ever scientifically proven the age of dinosaur fossil remains. As a matter of fact, there is actually more scientific evidence suggesting dinosaurs died off fairly recently, sometime within the history and memory of mankind.
The reason why the Bible doesn't seem to mention dinosaurs is because the radiometric dating methods scientists are using are inaccurate.
According to the Journal of Geophysical Research, new rock in the form of hardened lava flows produced estimated ages as great as 3 billion to 10.5 billion years when they were actually less than 200 years old.
According to Science Magazine, shells from living snails were carbon dated at around 27,000 years.
Does that sound like an accurate age estimate to you? Well, those are the kind of dating methods scientists are using to date dinosaur bones.
The Bible tells the truth as to what really happened to the dinosaurs, and it makes a whole lot more sense than anything evolutionary scientists say.
Reptiles never stop growing. Back in the days of Adam and Eve up until the days of Noah people lived 900 years which is about 10 times longer than the average lifespan today. If people lived longer, then more than likely animals would have lived longer as well, including lizards. If lizards lived 10 times longer, and reptiles never stop growing until the day they die, then they'd grow about 10 times bigger. So instead of having a 3 ft. long iguana like we have today, back then they'd have a 30 ft. long iguana.
One of the very first dinosaurs ever found was called the iguanadon because of it's resemblance to the iguana. The man who found it said that it's skeleton looked just like the skeleton of the iguana except it was alot bigger. Well guess how big it was? 30 feet!
Scientists have found fossilized remains of crocodiles that reached up to 40 to 50 feet in length. They've found remains of sea turtles that reached enormous sizes much bigger than any sea turtle today.
Now, fossilization is a very rare and unusual occurrence, not an everyday event. Creation Scientists have found that the conditions that would be most ideal for creating the massive fossil formations found in the sediments would be a violent, global flood catastrophe. Dinosaur remains worldwide are associated with water laid sediment.
Well, not only does history record a flood like that, but it just so happens that it occurred in the days when reptiles and lizards would have gotten really big.
After that flood occurred, the age of man dropped off very quickly from about 900 years down to about 100 years in just a few generations. The reason why the age of man dropped off so quickly is because of the harsh conditions on the earth after that catastrophic event. Because of those harsh conditions, many reptiles and lizards went extinct. Those reptiles and lizards that did not go extinct (the ones that are still alive today) simply can't grow as big as they used to, thus there are no dinosaurs around today.
There are atleast six different methods of radiometric dating available. The assumed age of the sample will dictate which dating method is used because each one will give a different result.
For example, when dinosaur bones containing carbon are found they are NOT carbon dated because carbon dating would produce an age estimate of only a few thousand years (about 3 or 4 thousand years). Because this would not match the assumed age based on the geologic column, scientists use another method of dating which will give an age closer to the desired result. All radiometric results that don't match up with the preassigned ages of the geologic column are discarded.
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- Chris GLv 51 decade ago
There's always people who want to believe that we are the cause of everything bad in this world. Even if it happened long before our ancestors supposedly climbed down from the trees and started to develop a brain and opposable thumbs to pick up stone clubs.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
i do no longer think of that is reconsiled. A literal "Augustian" interpretation of Adam and Eve and the backyard would not paintings with genetics, biology, paleontology, and so on. in case you % to settle for scienc you may take the Bible allegorically, like St. Francis of Assisi. The backyard exchange right into a logo of human's delivery from lost paradise and sin, i did no longer "certainly" ensue.
- vrrJT3Lv 61 decade ago
Works for me.
Personally, I think the big oil companies turned off the sunspots to cool down the sun, thus cooling the earth so they could rally opposition to global warming.
- 1 decade ago
we didnt walk with dinasours but they got extinct because of a meteorite! cool huh, b=we didnt cause something bad for the first time