Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 09, 2014

Was the book’s copyright even 2011?

Wow, dinosaurs are the same age as that joke!

Growing up, my favorite book was my dad’s old geology textbook; there were no kiddie books about dinosaurs. (No, there were no dinosaurs still around, unless you count birds, which they didn’t.) I skipped the physical geology section, which was just as well because plate tectonics weren’t respectable enough to be covered..markjoseph125: Shermer’s problem is that if it can neither be proved nor falsified by the scientific method, it must be considered false – thus putting his views as much a faith statement as those of the most doctrinaire religion. My religion is quite easily “subject to new evidence and better arguments”. I hate to think my theology has not grown since my seminary days in the late 1950s.

Not anything like the climate change discussion.

Markjoseph125 commented:“Science changes as more evidence comes in; also, dating methods have improved. Or, as Michael Shermer put it, “In science, all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.”

But Al Gore said:“The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There’s no longer any debate in the scientific community about this.”

There is no room for any new evidence or discussion on climate change, like all historic weather data, not cherry picked data, or all the weather cycles the world has experienced.

I have a 1976 National Geographic magazine that is warning about the coming ice age.

I see now.

Not many people know how long ago non avian dinosaurs first appeared. They ruled the Earth for 150 million years.