* KLC Lewis wrote, On 4/5/2007 9:46 PM:
"Jeff" wrote in message
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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.

Still can't bring yourself to admit that I related a true story, can you?

Did I ever say that? I only said that if it happened as you claim,
the teachers were incompetent.

Thinking about it, I can remember several instances of being taught
falsehoods - The Great Western was not the first ship to use steam to
cross the Atlantic, and Henry Ford did not make the first automobile.

My problem with your story is the implication is that society freely
accepts theories that are later shown to be false. While there may be
some cases of that, dinosaur extinction by gigantism is not one of
them. Whether you were taught it, imagined it, or made it up
yesterday is irrelevant. It was never accepted as probable by a
significant number of scientists; it was just one of many hypotheses
proposed to explain a mystery.