* KLC Lewis wrote, On 4/5/2007 8:23 PM:
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Now you're just being insulting. Perhaps the teachers back then, rather
relying upon the most recent data, repeated what they had been told when
*they* were in school. How many elementary school teachers do you know who
are rocket scientists? The fact remains that the critter was called
"Brontosaurus" at least until 1974, we were taught that he dragged his
tail, and we were taught that they died out from "Gigantism."

You can apply today's theories and knowledge to the past as much as you
would like, but I attended public school in three states (Colorado, New
York, New Jersey), and distinctly remember being taught pretty much the
same thing in all of them. Were they wrong? Yup. That's my point, innit?

As for Gigantism killing the dinosaurs, the theory is making a comeback --
at least in some circles: http://www.dinoextinct.com/ . Will you now claim
that this website doesn't exist?

The website exists, but I can make the claim that it doesn't represent
"science."



Another link which addresses the "Gigantism" theory, proving for Jeff that
such a theory did, in point of fact, exist in the past, and has since been
falsified. Gee, funny that someone would go to all the trouble of falsifying
a theory that I couldn't have been taught because it didn't exist, but there
ya go.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/extincthypo.html

Thanks for the link - that only proves my point. There were many
hypotheses for the extinction, but virtually no proof for any of them.
There is nothing wrong with presenting the various suggested
possibilities, that's exactly what the my teachers did, and what the
books of the day taught. Selecting one of them, and teaching it as
accepted fact, as you claim your teachers did, is, at best, incompetence.