Re: KT boundry event


Pip R. Lagenta wrote:
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On 17 Apr 2006 14:30:51 -0700, uraniumcommittee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
John Harshman wrote:
NashtOn 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.

Obviously? No. Nobody expects the same group to evolve twice -- look up
Dollo's Law. And dinosaurs, of course, didn't become extinct. There are
around 10,000 living species.

Birds branched off from dinos long before this!

...in the same way that Tyrannosaurus branched off from dinosaurs.
That is to say, a bird is a dinosaur in the same way that a
Tyrannosaurus is a dinosaur. You can do this for any pair of
bird/dinosaur: "chickens branched off from dinosaurs in the same way
that Brachiosauruses branched off from dinosaurs." The branch does
not fall very far from the tree. Birds are dinosaurs.

Not exactly. They're birds.


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