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Old 12-18-2004, 05:59 AM   #3 (permalink)
GakFace
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I see it more like this. See as things evolve they change in their name as they're not the same species as they were before. Look at human history... if you follow our ancestors back... we weren't always Homo Sapiens, yet we have other names from which our roots are from. (can't go into too much detail its going on 9AM and I have yet to sleep) Well bring this into dinosaurs. Dinos --> Dragons --> Lizards. Ignore the dragons if you want to.. whatever, just see my point. If you look at a lot of lizards, you can see dinosaur-esque looks in them, but you wouldn't call them a dinosaur.. just like you wouldn't call Homo Sapien an Australopithecus...

Now there is also the fact that Dino's still do exist.. but if they do, they don't live on land. There is quite the possibility that dinos that live in the water can still exist. There have been cases of completely isolated lakes containing VERY primitive species.. they've been untampered and thus unchanged.
There are also areas like the antarctic waters. Due to the very cold temperatures there are old species living there (which I believe are also a lot larger than they would normally be). The reason for this is that the animals in these regions reproduce slower than normal.. thus a greater time is needed to evolve. (I remember reading about that in the news a few months back. As waters warm, the species in these arctic waters are in severe threat of extinction because a minor heat up in the water would be lethal and they wouldn't have enough time to adapt (read: evolve) to the warmer water.
Also, let us not forget that there are animals in the deep sea that we rarely ever see. It seems that every now and then something washes ashore from the sea that we've never encountered before, and we've already seen some animals that are also primitive. (Primitive in anthropological terms doesn't mean inferior, it merely states that it is old instead of modern)
One more note about the deep sea. There are places where the deap sea is greatly heated... well some animals are able to live down with said heat...

So basically there are a lot of animals that either haven't been confirmed or we merely haven't even encountered yet, so the possibility that animals that we now call dinosaurs could still exist. But also when something adapts to any change... thats evolution.. evolving to its new surrounds no matter how minor it may seem. So they might still exist or they might now be called something else.. hard to say, but none the less its still very interesting.

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This other point I'm only briefly touching as it is better fit in Philosophy. The guy asked for Evolutionists and got Creationist Skeptics (Creationists who were skeptics of Evolution).. What about both? I mean couldn't it have started by creation but then evolved? To me that seems to make more sense. It had to start SOMEWHERE.. but it has since evolved to something else.
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