Well, that clears that up.
Sauropod
Raptor
Fossils
Oooh, I can never do that last one.
I have nothing to add, except to mention that “Thagomizer” is an actual word now.
Gary Larson is, once again, my hero.
Heeey, I like how this thread has flourished in my absence. I must admit I got howled out right from the get-go, but some people and their attention to detail have made me rethink not posting in this thread. To get to a few questions:
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THIS creationist does. Venus! That big ass planet flew by the planet that was the asteroid belt (I’ll call it Krypton, since Jesus seems a lot like Superman these days) and in a massive discharge immediately blew it up. Then it flew by Mars but the discharge from Krypton weakened it so it merely blew off the North of Mars and crushed the South with lightning bolts. Then it passed by Earth and made two big hurricanes on our poles, sucking up the water and freezing it. The salt was pulled out of the water and into the atmosphere because of its electric properties making the ice caps fresh water.
An event this massive would definitely change what we believe to be laws of nature but which actually aren’t. The charge on an electron is not constant, the ether exists and spreads itself out amongst all the elements of our planet, and our instruments are not sensitive enough to pick up on this. Where did you think lightning came from, the clouds? Elves and sprites show us lightning comes fom space. We are no smarter now than we were a hundred years ago, we just got a bunch of fancy things to impress ourselves with that cause cancer and we don’t know why so we start looking for a cure that doesn’t exist.
Also, I’ve been wondering how an animal like the Ultrasaur could even exist in our gravity? It weighed 180 tons, our elephants weigh in at 7 tons or so and they don’t have to worry about long necks. With a head and neck weighing 25000 - 40000 lbs, how much torque would that be trying to hold its head up staight out like some “scientists” these days think they did? A giraffe only goes horizontal long enough to take a drink of water, then it’s right back up. What kind of blood pressure does a creature like that experience, in our gravity anyways?
What about large flying creatures like the Teratorn? Our largest birds are about 30 lbs these days, but back this heavyweight was 170-200 lbs with a 30 ft. wingspan. Central Asian breeding eagles for size and strength haven’t gotten them any larger than 25 pounds and those big juicies already have trouble taking off. Nothing since those days has re-evolved into anything nearly that big.
Just goes to show you, what we think are laws (like the law of gravity) are actually subject to change. Some people would say this is ridiculous, I say gravitons and string theory and mainstream science is ridiculous. Dragons! They existed.
So why did you start the thread off with deceptions and lies?
Piltdown Man held him up.
I haven’t read Worlds in Confusion for 35 years or so, but I don’t think even Velikovsky claimed the billiard ball Venus changed natural laws - except for the the various laws of motion which get violated in his fantasy. Anyhow, that nonsense was supposed to have happened 4.000 years ago or so - I don’t remember him being a YEC either.
Okay, that’s a testable prediction. About fucking time. There is an experiment called Millikan’s Oil Drop experiment (I linked to it in the other thread) that showed rather elegantly that aerosolized drops of oil exhibited charges that were multiples of the same number–therefore suggesting that electronic charge is constant, and the only variable affecting the oil drop’s charge was the number of electrons present in the drop. J. J. Thomson had earlier obtained a value for the charge per gram for the electron, and the charge of the electron was thereby determined to be -1.6022e-19.
Every experiment will be fundamentally flawed in that we deny the existence of the ether. Until the day comes when we realize it does indeed exist and experiment upon it we will not know how it interacts with electrons.
No, we don’t “deny” the existence of the ether; we disproved it. I really cannot believe you are promoting Velikovskyism here. Do you need a shopping list of the number of errors in it?
TheFonz, thanks for answering my question about your age. Again, no insult was implied. I’d like to ask a couple more. What led you to your unconventional beliefs? What was the first thing you read or noticed that started you on this path?
(All right, but has it been done this well?!)
Ummm…
About the end of the 19th century, EVERYONE believed in the existence of ether.
I cite the “Short History of Nearly Everything” which says
He mentions this, since at the Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland, Ohio) two mainstream scientist (Albert Michelson and Edward Morley) undertook an experiment to measure the ether drift (which would happen if there was something like ether and was the expected effect of the Earth travelling through it).
Long story short: there was no “ethereal drift”. And no one could explain it until an insurance accountant named Albert Einstein came along and gave an alternate explanation… so you see, if your theories explain everything so much better than current science can, the only thing stopping you from gaining fame and fortune is to frame them in proper words, have it a peer-reviewed and voilá, new Einstein of our current century…
No, that just proves Earth really is the stationary center of the universe! Do the experiment on the Moon and you’ll see! 
You mean “the Moon”? As in the secret soundstage where the “astronauts” walked around?
How would those measurements differ from those taken a couple of miles away? 
Uhmm…the Ostrich weighs in at over 200 pounds and it most definitely is a bird.
And in case TheFonz meant flying birds, the Great Bustard weighs in at up to 40 pounds (18kg), and is quite capable of flight. (It’s the heaviest flying bird, along with its Asian cousin the Koori bustard; albatrosses and other seabirds may be larger in terms of wingspan but are not built as heavily.)
Einstein wasn’t an insurance accountant. He was a patent clerk in Bern, but he was still very active in the physics community. Cite: Nobel Prize bio, Wikipedia bio.
I stand corrected. :smack: