allow you to believe this article?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070905/sc_nm/asteroid_dinosaurs_dc_1;_ylt=At2jN374BYd0L3aF5q06Cj4E1vAI
Oh by the way, I know atheists don't have any issues believing this article. Not the opinions I'm curious about.
2007-09-06 04:00:30 · 11 answers · asked by Tim 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
can you show me a photo of the collision? No? but you accept their "facts" anyway? and you call us blind?
2007-09-06 04:12:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting the way the article is crafted and the careful wording used in it.
At the end of the 3rd paragraph it says, "Many scientists believe." That doesn't sound like all scientists or even most scientists, or even the majority of scientists. It sounds like there are many scientists who aren't sure, but they "believe".
At the beginning of the 4th paragraph it says, "...is thought to have..." Sounds to me like they aren't sure of too much, but they THINK, MAYBE.
At the beginning of the 5th paragraph it says, "90% probability..." That sounds like there is nothing they are firm about. Coupling a percentage with the word "probability" really hedges the bet, don't you think?
The 7th paragraph includes this, "...are thought to be..." Real conclusive and sure about things, aren't they?
The 9th paragraph, "...is believed to have..." They obviously don't have enough evidence to be absolutely conclusive, but they have enough evidence to have FAITH and believe. Hmmm, maybe that's something to think about!
In the 13th paragraph we read, "estimated....about a 70% probability..." How could anyone draw a firm conclusion from a grouping of four non-committals like that?
Finally, in the 15th paragraph it says, "...can have.." Sure if any of that actually happened, it "can have".
Sorry, there's nothing in this article to believe, only a bunch of theory, supposition, thoughts, estimates, probabilities and scientific beliefs. A very deceptive article, which many will gladly accept as fact, blindly overlooking all of the non-committals I just pointed out. That's the most perfect example of blind faith I have ever witnessed.
God bless you.
2007-09-06 11:46:19 · answer #2 · answered by the sower 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How did they find this out? Did they discover pictures, or did these scientists decide this would be their official story? I'm just asking because a scientist on Nova said the extinction was not due to meteors, but to the release of deadly gasses that had built up beneath the Earth's surface and then were released. I have no problem believing either of these, but science needs to pick one theory and stick with it.
2007-09-06 11:13:06 · answer #3 · answered by Sykopup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I don't believe it but it's not because of my religion. It's more because of scientific research I have done over the years. The fact that carbon dating and other methods have recently found that some small dinosaurs co-existed with man years ago blows the whole "they went extended before we evolved" thing out of the water.
2007-09-06 11:18:09 · answer #4 · answered by nhprodigio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe life was created. Including dinosaurs. I don't see anything wrong with believing an asteroid was allowed to wipe out the dinosaurs when it was time for the Creator to make mankind.
2007-09-06 11:16:09 · answer #5 · answered by Rae 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's certainly interesting how scholars write papers and journalists write stories as if things like the dinosaurs, earth being ~5 billion y.o., and evolution are considered true.
I guess, perhaps, they are true.
2007-09-06 11:09:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Headline?
You make it sound as if its news of the here and now.
I've known that stuff for years.
... Then again, I did do a degree in Palaeobiology...
2007-09-06 11:05:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure. I'm Catholic. No problem with science and evolution, because we're allowed to actually think about stuff.
2007-09-06 11:03:32 · answer #8 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's an assumed theory for what happen to them.But not definite.
And how they went extinct is no problem for Christianity.
2007-09-06 11:05:33 · answer #9 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am not a scientist so I don't rush to question their findings.
2007-09-06 11:06:01 · answer #10 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋