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Peter Von Sholly wrote:
<< As for BCF, I can only add my own sentiments: BFD. I
am
personally sick unto death of hearing a few individuals' long-winded tirades and counter-tirades on the subject. But knock yourselves out...that's merely my take on it. Without a fuller picture from the fossil record, it seems pointless to get too dogmatic about any of this. >> Dinogeorge replied:
< I agree. Almost every discussion on this list would benefit from a fuller fossil record. There is no way to test or confirm any but the most trivial hypotheses about dinosaur endothermy; dinosaur behavior, habits, ecology, and lifestyles; dinosaur phylogeny and relationships; dinosaur diseases; and dinosaur life appearance (color, stance, and so forth). On this list, therefore, we should discuss nothing but historical aspects of dinosaurology, dinosaur descriptions and nomenclature, and the reconstruction and life restoration of existing dinosaur specimens in motion pictures and as art. > This would rob the subject of its value as a
puzzle. Speculation is the mother and
father of science; human brains were designed to make use of uncertain
knowledge. Besides how far could we get with reconstructing dinos' life
appearances without guessing and arguing? (I half suspect George was being
ironic when he said the above!)
One of my main points though is that K-BCF is being airbrushed
out of history by those who ought to know better.
JJ
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