Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

22 July 2008

 Our hats off to the artist that created these charts and tables. An incredible amount of time must have been spent to determine exactly what dinosaur was related to each other and then systematize them into a chart all the way back into their one common ancestor. Why did I call them an artist instead of a scientist? Well... because very little science was actually done.

 I'm sorry if that sounds offensive, but the only science that would have been done is measurement of the size of the fossils and layer the fossil was discovered in (Radiometric Dating explained elsewhere). The rest of this beautiful chart is purely speculation off of what someone thinks the dinosaur looked like. There was no empirical biological testing done... No one cross was breeding dinosaurs for multiple generations to verify the accuracy of this chart.

 Without tearing apart the entire chart as useless I would probably agree with several of the links they say are related. There are hundreds of species of dinosaurs but still only a few "kinds" of dinosaurs. The chart shows that all the different Apatosaurus had a common ancestor and I would agree with that... It was an Apatosaurus! It also shows that all the Stegosaurus had a common ancestor... It was a Stegosaurus! If there were only 40 different kinds of dinosaurs that were originally created there would be plenty of genetic variety to create all the thousands of variations of dinosaur bones we find.

1. We do not even know if some of the bones we find are just variations in the same species.
2. We do not even know if bones that look similar EVER had a common ancestor.
3. We have never observed existing kinds of animals having children with new genetic information to make them better/different from their parents.

Why would animals in the past be able to do something that animals today can not do?

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/7k63203q852h4006/