Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
I'm watching The Land Before Time, parts 1-7 or so, on account of missing my cat, and needing something mindless. And yes, I can definitely tell you that it is cute and entertaining. I can also tell you that the series is probably not good food for impressionable young minds, since along with dinosaurs, along with talking/singing dinosaurs, along with in at least one episode dinosaurs coexisting with simple mammals like squirrels, the message of the story is the same trite multiculturalism that is so sickening 2010 or so onward. "We can all live together in harmony" even though some of the group are legit meat eaters, and the story ends before adulthood for a good reason. Their sharptooth buddy Chomper would quickly find bugs aren't enough, and eat all of his "friends."
But it got me thinking, just how real are these dinosaurs?
Well, the Archaeopteryx turned out to be a hoax, but we can trust our other fossils right? Well...
When did dinosaurs live?
Dinosaurs lived about about 245 to 66 million years ago.
The thing is, these fossils are made of bones, but the oldest of these are only 2.8 million years old, not 66 million.
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/skeleton-mystery-dont-bones-decay-decompose.html
The problem with these mineralized bones is that they are no different from stones that have been sculpted into the shape of skulls or teeth or whatever else. The other problem is that even fossils eventually get ground to dust meaning that tens or hundreds of millions of year pass and there is not even bone-shaped stones remain.
So then, if there aren't real fossils, what exactly is this?
In simplest terms, a moneymaking scheme. After all, these "bones" which are at best only able to be dated with carbon dating up to 95000 years (not even 1 million), after which it is impossible to find either intact genetic material or a sufficient about of carbon. So they're paying for plastic casting, and bits of rock, or strung together bones of more recent animals cobbled together through sketchy techniques.
So which are more real? I mean, we have at least anecdotal accounts of miracles and stuff, but we can't see God typically. But we have "fossils" of dinosaurs, which are possibly fake.
Also, everyone here must do a Land Before Time marathon. Yup yup yup.
But it got me thinking, just how real are these dinosaurs?
Well, the Archaeopteryx turned out to be a hoax, but we can trust our other fossils right? Well...
When did dinosaurs live?
Dinosaurs lived about about 245 to 66 million years ago.
The thing is, these fossils are made of bones, but the oldest of these are only 2.8 million years old, not 66 million.
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/skeleton-mystery-dont-bones-decay-decompose.html
The problem with these mineralized bones is that they are no different from stones that have been sculpted into the shape of skulls or teeth or whatever else. The other problem is that even fossils eventually get ground to dust meaning that tens or hundreds of millions of year pass and there is not even bone-shaped stones remain.
So then, if there aren't real fossils, what exactly is this?
In simplest terms, a moneymaking scheme. After all, these "bones" which are at best only able to be dated with carbon dating up to 95000 years (not even 1 million), after which it is impossible to find either intact genetic material or a sufficient about of carbon. So they're paying for plastic casting, and bits of rock, or strung together bones of more recent animals cobbled together through sketchy techniques.
So which are more real? I mean, we have at least anecdotal accounts of miracles and stuff, but we can't see God typically. But we have "fossils" of dinosaurs, which are possibly fake.
Also, everyone here must do a Land Before Time marathon. Yup yup yup.
