AzurePhoenix

I imagine the bologna will leave interesting grease marks that will take a while to clean off, as well as an unholy scent if where you live is hot, but it shouldn't do any more damage to the paint than it will to your own intestinal tract, the extent of which forensic science has yet to determine. And not to rain on your creative processes, but... .... Honey sprinkled with birdseed is my personal favorite(don't worry. I won't tell you what to do with it, since no one is stupid enough to not immediately realize what to do, although I will say that I prefer to spread mine over the vehicle, as well as the driveway and any path to the house. Chocolate syrup also works as a honey-subsitute). And it doesn't strip paint. This works marvelously, especially in 112 degree weather.

While I would normally agree on the principal of your argument, I still win, because my birdies were descended from ACTUAL DINOSAURS Anyway, I think his question was meant to ask "is there evidence humans existed alongside dinos 65 million years ago and earlier?" In which case, birds being dinosaurs is irrelevant, as is your comparison of modern crocs and sharks, though any of the many crocs or sharks around prior to the KT Event would be fair game. I hate semantics.

*They never coexisted prior to the KT event. At that time, only the most archaic proto-primates existed.*It's doubtful any small non-avian dinos surivived long enough to exist alongside man, though we can't say for sure that none did, especially in remote, heavily wooded regions, but their is no evidence of such creatures, short of dragon-legends. *In the sense that birds are dinosaurs, or at least evolved from them, yes, we still exist alongside dinosaurs. (no, sharks and crocs are not "dinosaurs") Considering evolution is a series of constantly changing scientific theories, not some doctrine laid down by someone who already knows it all, it isn't possible to have an "Evolutionary Bible," at least not the way I interpret the term. It's a waste of energy. You can't fight blind faith through written or verbal means, you can only sit back and try to ingore it. Understandably, doing so can become insanely difficult at times...

He was also in love with his daughter, and put an intellectual edge to smoking your jaw into an early grave. More seriously, his insights into the human psyche revolutionalized the field, especially regarding the unconscious, and its components.

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I remember that after I regained consciousness from a heavy electrical* shock, the first thing that came to mind was how lovely the lingering scent was. That was ozone, right? * This Post has been edited for content

Big deal. Me? I swear by my great-grandfather's abacus, and to this day, it works like new. Let's see how this super computer runs after eighty years

After days of in depth investigation, I've been led to the conclusion that the aforementioned glasses were indeed NOT abducted and taken hostage, but actually fled the brutal conditions of the Ecoli household in order to join a traveling carnival hosted by renegade watches, two top hats, and a monacol. P.S. The carnival in question is currently making it's way through the small Kansas town of Tabberknacky Haven. Be warned, they have pure-bred attack monkeys.

It won't get to that point. If we're really lucky, a few natural mega-disasters will cull a few of us, and if not, we can always hope for global war.

In the U.S.A, Sex Ed isn't about anything remotely similar to sex, it's all about avoiding it.

Although an adamant supporter of the whisker-thingy myself, I'm still rather surprised at how many votes it's picked up. Yay for disease-ridden rodents!!

Sheesh, try explaining the concept of a month to a five year old and you'll hit a brick wall.... stretch it out to infinity and add a non-existant super-being to the mix, and you'll just scare the living daylights outa her. I vote you go with the "first chicken-egg from a not-quite-chicken analogy". Especially if you'd prefer to share a less religious (thereby more accurate) viewpoint with your daughter, it should be the best, and comparatively easiest route to take.

The problem is that people are looking for clearcut definitions that will apply to every frickin critter. Evolution doesn't care about your damn taxonomic trees!!!!! One creature gradually becomes another!!! There's going to be overlapping!!! This dinosaur developed an avian-hip structure, but lacks feathers, this one's forelimbs are similar in form to a bird's wings, but it's cearly not a bird, this small dinosaur has feathers and wings, but also has teeth ad a long tail... etc, etc, etc Arguably, certain dinosaurs fall under these criteria. "What is a reptile" and "what is a bird" is simply a way for us to better organize species and understand their relationships with one another, where they came from, etc. On a fundemental level, it doesn't matter.

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As for the ethics of it, it seems over the line to me to go in and (loosely speaking) mutilate someone's body without their consent. Yet I know several non-religious young men who were circumcised and say they were happy to have had it done to them in their immemorable infancy, rather than wait till they were old enough to have to make the decision themselves. They claim to simply prefer the aesthetics. Whether that's compensatory thinking or not, I know not. I live somewhere between lame humor and outlandish seriousness. It might not be the most illustrious condition of the mind, but it keeps me content. And by golly, we're all friends here. No need for unnecessary and malicious criticisms. Save that for the religious forums

So the archosaurs' classification as reptiles is sketchy? (from your sagacious and much beloved viewpoint, not necessarily that of other squabbling scientists)

I think it's a fair tradeoff. We have to suffer through childbirth, and in exchange, you get your willy carved.

Of course, Mokele is by no way any more a typical example of a mere Homo sapien sapien than I, and his reptilianity is ingrained into his legendary status.

Dinosaurs evolved from clear reptiles, but themselves possesed several features that brings their reptilian status into question, such as possessing four chambered hearts, and possibly being endothermic (later therapods of certain groups most certainly were). Subsequently, truly endothermic feathered avians evolved from dinosaurs. In my opinion, they are no more reptiles than we are, having ourselves evolved from reptiles. The true answer would largely be based on ever-changing taxanomic criteria. Scientists and sects of scientists are constantly debating and redefining where things belong and why. This site discusses it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptile

Damn, I was really hoping to reduce him to Jello. Was I right in thinking that Quetzalcoatlus was the last pterosaur? I've read it multiple times, but I can't find the resources I used.

#1 Sure there were running crocs, but there were also many varieties just like those that exist today. And even so, the ones around today can make mad dashes. There wer also some even more thoroughly evolved for a marine lifestyle. Under your conclusion, what would lead to their extinction? #2 Turtles largely evolved for the water, prior to the KT event, whereas tortoises evolved for the land, where they remain today. #3 Though younger than lizards by far, legless snakes did exist before the KT event. #4 Now I'm not positive about this, but I believe that prior to the KT Event only a single known pterosaur remained in existance, Quetzalcoatlus, which, due to its specific niche, was not outcompeted for by birds. And yes, while it was certainly very large, its light bone structure weighed about as much as a man. Combining thermals and an impressive surface area for its tremendous wings, flight isn't so farfetched. #5 Yes, whales were descended from small terrestrial mammals Long AFTER the KT Event, from semi-aquatic creatures such as Ambulocetus. Trace their evolution further and eventually you get to fully aquatic whales. Further along, and obviously, you encounter modern whales. And the similar bone structure of their limbs can be deduced to nothing more than the easiest frame-work under which their former legs could evolve into flippers. Why evolve a new skeletal paddle entirely when you can easily adjust the limbs you've got? Their remaining hindlimbs are simply vestigial, like the leftover eyes in blind cavefish. #6 My biggest problem with your moon theory is the fact that a moon spiralling around like that would majorly disrupt all those little balances maintained by the moon today, such as wobble, tides, and magnetic field, which have major influences on climate and such. It stands to reason that we'd be able to find evidence of an event of that scale. #7 If this increase in gravity killed all the large creatures, would it not have largely affected the small as well? An increase in gravity for large beings adapted to low gravity would have analogous affects on small creatures adapted for low gravity, yet they survived, inlcuding the birds, which it seems would have been devestated by a sudden increase in weight.

If only that chimpanzee had been allowed to testify.... I bet he's seen some things, and likely have been made to spill his guts for something as simple as a banana.

The fact that it's very, very close to its star also doesn't really help its potential for having much of an atmosphere either.

Black? Pal, he's been achromatic for years. He hasn't been black since before my time