First Second (2006 - present)

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By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 12:53 am:

Dinosaurs Fossils And Feathers

"For 165 million years, dinosaurs walked the Earth. And flew. And swam."
Ugh!
I suppose one could make an argument that Archeopteryx & the dinosaurs that became birds flew, or at least glided, but the artist drew Pteranodons which are not dinosaurs, but pterosaurs.
And there is evidence to show that dinosaurs, like many living land animals, could go in water and swim (although we would never refer to dogs, elephants or humans as being aquatic). But the artist drew a turtle, icthyosaurs, a mosasaurus & a plesiosaurus, none of which are dinosaurs.

"Humans evolved 66 million years after the dinosaurs died out."
So we haven't evolved yet?
Has the estimate for when the dinosaurs died out been revised? It's been estimated as 65 million years since before I was born & humans evolved somewhere around a million or two million years ago.

They show William Smith explaining his findings of rock strata & dating them by the fossils they contain to a group of women.
Not sure if this is a nit or not, but given the era, I would have assumed it unlikely.

"In the year 1800...
The Earth is 6,006 years old.
Dinosaurs are known as monsters.
They lived a few thousand years ago.
They disappeared because of Noah's flood.
There are no examples of dinosaurs living at this time.
We are certain about all of this."
There may have been some who were certain, but I believe the concept of extinction was tough for people to swallow & they believed that there must be some living members around somewhere. The idea that God would make a species then wipe it out completely just did not go down well with people.

"Charles Darwin Published The Origin of the Species"
Just The Origin of Species, there shouldn't be a 'the' before Species.

"it proposed the theory of evolution."
It proposed A theory of evolution. Others had proposed different theories of evolution.


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