Comments on: A Dinosaur in the Middle Ages? The Stegosaur in Cambodia http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/ Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations. Thu, 17 May 2012 09:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jangmi http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/comment-page-1/#comment-6193 Jangmi Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:12:55 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/#comment-6193 It's obviously a rhino. The head looks nothing like a lizard. Trust me. I am a teacher and I am teaching my children about mammalian characteristics. The head is shaped like a mammal. Not a lizard. The tail is mammalian. Not long like a lizard. And for god sakes, where are the steg's pointy spines on its tail? I suppose objecting to the belief that this is a dinosaur threatens your belief in Christian Fundamentalism. You must feel that you must prove the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs in order to prove that God exists. That's pretty sad. It’s obviously a rhino. The head looks nothing like a lizard. Trust me. I am a teacher and I am teaching my children about mammalian characteristics. The head is shaped like a mammal. Not a lizard. The tail is mammalian. Not long like a lizard. And for god sakes, where are the steg’s pointy spines on its tail? I suppose objecting to the belief that this is a dinosaur threatens your belief in Christian Fundamentalism. You must feel that you must prove the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs in order to prove that God exists. That’s pretty sad.

]]> By: JohnS http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/comment-page-1/#comment-5581 JohnS Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:12:55 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/#comment-5581 I'm a young-Earth creationist, and I'll admit that the Ica stones are hoaxes, but here's what I find funny; Skeptics usually will laugh at how "believers" *in mysteries, that is, not religion* will go to incredible lengths to "prove" that something mundane is actually something incredible. And yet skeptics themselves will do the same, albeit to prove the incredible to be something mundane. Just like what you guys did there with that stegosaur picture. "Oh, well, the plates are just a decorative background...lessee...and shorten the tail there...add a little bit of this...and VOILA! A rhino!" ....Right. We're all entitled to our opinions, but come on, isn't that really stretching it to "prove" that it's not a dinosaur? I’m a young-Earth creationist, and I’ll admit that the Ica stones are hoaxes, but here’s what I find funny;

Skeptics usually will laugh at how “believers” *in mysteries, that is, not religion* will go to incredible lengths to “prove” that something mundane is actually something incredible.

And yet skeptics themselves will do the same, albeit to prove the incredible to be something mundane.

Just like what you guys did there with that stegosaur picture. “Oh, well, the plates are just a decorative background…lessee…and shorten the tail there…add a little bit of this…and VOILA! A rhino!”
….Right.

We’re all entitled to our opinions, but come on, isn’t that really stretching it to “prove” that it’s not a dinosaur?

]]> By: Jess http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/comment-page-1/#comment-4858 Jess Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:15:42 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/#comment-4858 I understand your obvious concern that the picture is that of a rinocerous, but considering it is done in relief, your theory is destroyed. That's a stegasorus, for sure. The point of relief is to make the background and the foreground seperate. So the origional artist definitely wanted the stegs and the body to be reconed as one. Concerning your theory that all of life arose on it's own, have you looked at the evidence. The majority of microbologists now admit that life arising by chance in some primordial sea is not only implausible, but obserd. One doens't need to start with proving that dinasours and man existed together to make creationism real, when the entire foundation upon which evolutionary beliefs are built has been completely destoryed as of late. I don't know, what do you think? I understand your obvious concern that the picture is that of a rinocerous, but considering it is done in relief, your theory is destroyed. That’s a stegasorus, for sure. The point of relief is to make the background and the foreground seperate. So the origional artist definitely wanted the stegs and the body to be reconed as one. Concerning your theory that all of life arose on it’s own, have you looked at the evidence. The majority of microbologists now admit that life arising by chance in some primordial sea is not only implausible, but obserd. One doens’t need to start with proving that dinasours and man existed together to make creationism real, when the entire foundation upon which evolutionary beliefs are built has been completely destoryed as of late. I don’t know, what do you think?

]]> By: OOps http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/comment-page-1/#comment-4077 OOps Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:03:50 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/#comment-4077 "The first Stegosaurus fossil was only found in Colorado, USA, in 1876." This was the first stego fossil RECOGNIZED by modern science - that does not mean that it was the first ever seen by human eyes. Fossils have been eroding out of the ground for billions of years (ever since life first began), and it perfectly plausible that a stego fossil could have been exposed to the surface where a Cambodian could have seen it. Where do you think the myths of dragons originated? But it's probably a rhino. “The first Stegosaurus fossil was only found in Colorado, USA, in 1876.”

This was the first stego fossil RECOGNIZED by modern science – that does not mean that it was the first ever seen by human eyes. Fossils have been eroding out of the ground for billions of years (ever since life first began), and it perfectly plausible that a stego fossil could have been exposed to the surface where a Cambodian could have seen it. Where do you think the myths of dragons originated?

But it’s probably a rhino.

]]> By: The Rhinoceros in the Livingroom « Rumpled Foreskin http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/comment-page-1/#comment-2092 The Rhinoceros in the Livingroom « Rumpled Foreskin Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:07:40 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/skepticism/a-dinosaur-in-the-middle-ages-the-stegosaur-in-cambodia/#comment-2092 [...] the Livingroom Posted by ilsita under Reasons I'm going to Hell   Oh, this is fantastic! This story… I love this. Now, go read it so I don’t have to tell the story all over [...] [...] the Livingroom Posted by ilsita under Reasons I’m going to Hell   Oh, this is fantastic! This story… I love this. Now, go read it so I don’t have to tell the story all over [...]

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