'Dream Team' Agrees Huge Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs

[Jason]

'Dream Team' Agrees Huge Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs


Traci Watson
Contributor
AOL News

(March 4) -- For decades, scientists have debated exactly what kind of cataclysm was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Did a giant rock from outer space blast T. rex and his ilk off the face of the Earth? Or was a huge volcanic eruption to blame?

Now the jury is in -- maybe. In Friday's issue of the prestigious journal Science, a "dream team" of 41 researchers from 12 nations declares that the evidence points overwhelmingly to a mountain-sized asteroid that walloped the planet 65 million years ago. The monstrous boulder left an equally monstrous scar, a 120-mile-wide dimple known as the Chicxulub crater on the Mexican coast.

"We assessed the whole picture," says Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. "The answer is quite simple. ... The Chicxulub crater really is the culprit."

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[buckethead]

Welp... I guess that settles it.

[Doctor_K]

Ah, scientific concensus.

[Bostech]

I thought it was Netflix that killed dinosaurs.

[Doctor_K]

Of course it did.  The Blockbustersaurus and the Movie-Gallery Rex.

[JaxNative68]

This is the scientific consensus, but what is the religious consensus?  Are you trying to tell me the earth is older that what the Bible says?

[BridgeTroll]

We have more to fear from a repeat of this type event than "global warming"....

[JaxNative68]

^ the moon will get us before global warming does

[buckethead]

I always suspected the moon was up to no good.

[JaxNative68]

can't trust a giant ball of cheese that is to big for crackers

[Bostech]

Dinosaurs went extinct because they elected Bushonosaurus as leader.

[Doctor_K]

^ the moon will get us before global warming does

or the earthquakes!

[Jason]

This is the scientific consensus, but what is the religious consensus?  Are you trying to tell me the earth is older that what the Bible says?

How old does the Bible say it is?

[buckethead]

Old enough to know better, but young enough to go ahead and do it anyway.

[JaxNative68]

This is the scientific consensus, but what is the religious consensus?  Are you trying to tell me the earth is older that what the Bible says?

How old does the Bible say it is?

I guess I just inferred the seven day thing.  If man was made on the seventh day, then the first day had to be the earth.  I don't remember reading about giant maneating reptiles in the bible.