Re: KT boundry event

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:41:55 GMT, NashtOn <nana@xxxxx> wrote:

uraniumcommittee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I just finished Alvarez's book

"T. Rex and the Crater of Doom" the title of which is a bit misleading,
and Mr and Mrs Rex do not appear.

I am puzzled, however, by his poor argument that after the KT boundry
event the mammals were able to take over the niches (large animals)
that dinos had previously occupied. The question arises: Why didn't we
get dinos all over again? Why didn't we get large reptiles, at least?
Why large MAMMALS?


Do you think anybody knows the answer to this? Obviousy, according to
the ToE, it's probably because determinism goes out the window and the
conditions that made for the "evolution" of dinos were not present after
they became extinct.


How does that make "determinism" go out the window?

It would seem to me that if the planet was cleared of most species of
land animals, then the ones that were left would be the ones to fill
the empty niches. In this case that would have been birds and mammals.
Its also possible that dinos were being out competed by mammals before
the KT event, since according to my reading the number of species of
dinosaurs were already in decline before the impact.


g.c.

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