Re: Sauroparental care

[zone65@bigpond.com]

On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, at 03:14  AM, Ken Carpenter wrote:

> Peter,
> I don't quite know why you insist on posting your reply to the entire 
> list since you are shooting yourself in the foot. I bring to the 
> table, 30 years of dinosaur paleontology, 200 scientific publications, 
> 7 books, including "Eggs, Nests and Baby Dinosaur." What do you bring 
> to draw from?
> Ken

A brain, as rudimentary as it might be. Just because I don't have your 
quals and expertise (in this field), doesn't mean I should be 
condescended to. Just because you've been doing something for three 
decades doesn't necessarily mean you're good at it - you may be, I 
don't know. I do hope your work is better than your manners.

I've never once implied anything like "I think it, therefore it must 
be." Nope - more like "I think it, therefore it might be." Perfectly 
valid philosophies have come from lay-people over the centuries.

You say in another message, "speculation... forms the basis for 
developing a hypothesis". That's all I've been doing. And yet you 
continue to make haughty and supercilious comments about my ideas - why 
is this?

Peter M


> Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
> Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology &
> Chief Preparator
> Dept. of Earth Sciences
> Denver Museum of Natural History
> 2001 Colorado Blvd.
> Denver, CO 80205
>
> Phone: (303)370-6392
> Fax: (303)331-6492
> email: KCarpenter@DMNS.org
>
> For fun:
>  http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=Kcarpenter
>
>
> > > > <zone65@bigpond.com> 22/Dec/03 >>>
> I wasn't getting personal - I have no idea who you are, so it's not
> possible. Just defending my honestly-posited speculations, which you
> attacked for no reason. You compared my thinking to that of
> Creationists, remember? All I was doing was making some postulations
> which you unreasonably took to be groundless theories. Who's sloppy? No
> need for the paleo-than-thou insults.
>
> How about reasoned repudiation of my crazy ideas rather than baseless
> ridicule? Other folks have been very nice indeed, and informative too.
>
> Cheer up!
>
> Peter
>
> On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, at 02:03  AM, Ken Carpenter wrote:
>
> > careful about getting personal. I could retort with what sloppy
> > thinking.
>
> Watch that sentence structure, especially when accusing one of
> sloppiness. Seriously, take it easy.
>
> Peter M