Peter, I saw "Stan" (a T-Rex fossil) at Disney's Animal Kingdom and the
folks at the exibition told me how few specimens existed. It's a very
difficult puzzle indeed.
There are lots of unexplained artifacts from pre-historic ages that
suggest mankind did have a former civilization that vanished in some
global catastrophe, leaving scattered groups with tales of destruction
by flood and fire. We usually regard our achievements as important, but
if mankind disappeared the next tenants would have little to remember us.
LF
Peter Alling escreveu:
On a serious note, most people don't realize how little of the fossil record actually
exists. I think the entire T-Rex species is known from fewer than 100 individuals with
only a half a dozen considered "nearly complete", representing several hundred
thousand years of the species' existence. The amount of time that hominids an entire
group of mammalian species have been on earth is less time than the existence of that one
species of dinosaur was. If the same amount of time elapsed between the rise of a new
intelligent creature and our demise, as between us and the dinosaurs, I doubt enough
would exist of our works to show that we were tool users. In fact though there are an
awful lot of us, I doubt there would be many surviving fossils, as most of us live in
areas not conducive to fossil formation.
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From: AlunFoto <[email protected]>
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2009/1/17 Peter Alling <[email protected]>:
If birds are related to dinosaurs maybe they did.
Not much would be left of our civilization after a few million years.
True enough. But since there are fossilised remains of early hominids
like Lucy, then one has to wonder how a previous civilisation of
another species could have come and gone without as much as a trace in
the fossil record.
Unless, of course, the fossil record is a hoax planted by the previous
civilisation.
No, wait! That doesn't hold with the fact that Noah's flood caused all
the fossils.
<g, d & r>
Jostein
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