Re: Sauroparental care

["Ken Carpenter" <Kcarpenter@dmns.org>]

Again, I raise the point of how do you test your hypothesis? I can just as as 
well say that little green men come to earth and took care of the babies. The 
point is that this idea is not testable, nor, as you'll note, can you disprove 
it as structured. A hypothesis needs to be framed in such a way that it can be 
disproved. That is one reason why debates with Creationists are futile. They 
tend to make statements that cannot be tested.
Ken

>>> <zone65@bigpond.com> 12/20/03 22:53 PM >>>
OK, the question of how Saurpods avoided trampling their young into 
brontoburgers must be considered... one idea is that the eggs were laid 
in rather deep/wide burrows dug in the ground. The hatchlings would 
then live there until they were large enough to emerge, and clever 
enough to avoid their elders' feet. Another possibility is the young 
lived on mud-islands created by the adults in lakes.

Peter Markmann
Canberra