Quote (AkuuZ @ Mar 20 2015 07:36pm)
you have some ground, however to say that all dinosaurs are fake you would have to throw out all transitional fossils of all species. fossilization has that process of dissolving and filling in those gaps with water and other minerals making it more of a rock, however many fossils also have some bone fragments inside of them. some dinosaurs are not so much hoaxes, but more or less misinerpretation of data. unfortunately i hate to agree than the actually evidence for some dinosaurs are pretty slim, they find a fossil and reconstruct it from imagination, then give it characteristics. i actually find it somewhat dishonest, you find a skull fragment, construct a full bodied dinosaur and then tell us how it hunted, what it ate, ect, i think most of its bullshit. however with that being said, its possible that dinosaurs do reflect some truth to evolutionary sciences as there been dinosaur species (large reptiles) though i think the exact shape of the reconstructions are somewhat imaginary. the fossils do show extremely large animals, such as the sauropods. Even so the dinosaurs still werent even as big as the blue whale, which is the largest animal known to exist. So in conclusion, are dinosaurs hoaxes? No, but many are i believe are a little exaggerated, but im not sure if thats just human error or intentional dishonesty. I do want to point out that there were fossils of all sorts of animals found before owens did anything. Also many dinosaur bones were found outside of owens knowledge and even before his popularity. He also stole alot of fossils and renamed them from other people such as gideon mantell. as for the paleontology didnt exist until owens, im not sure if your intentially being dishonest or just ignorant. they observed fossils during the middle ages, even da vinci recognized them. but obviously in the 19th century things are going to beef up some, everything was studied, it was the age of knowledge; industrial revolution; it was when there were many advancements and various fields of science, paleontology and evolution being one of them. anyways i could keeping going but i think you get the idea.
tl:dr version: I think dinosaurs are to have existed but presicion of reconstuction may be skewed, and i dont think she knows much about that actual history of paleontology or why it became more popular in the 19th century.
after further examination of your youtube videos, especially the one about the kite and the leather jacket (dinosaur aerodynamics) i have come to the conclusion that your just a fucking idiot, i guess if i throw a bat (the animal bat, not a baseball bat) out of a window it will fall to its death?
i'll still need more information before deciding for myself
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