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"Dinosaurs evolved from their smaller ancestors in just a few million years and not the 10 million years or more scientists had suspected ..." There are a lot

• dragandj 11y ago
  That sounds as if the scientists are wrong but someone else is right. Although this is a truism (since science by default does not deal with absolute truth) what makes you think that someone other is right, and how you know that? Doesn't that also make you a scientist, since you discovered new knowledge?
  • kenbellows 11y ago
    I think the point was just that the more we investigate any given area of science, the more we refine and overturn previously held ideas. I think the GP's wording was a little hostile toward scientists in tone, but I also think that may have been unintentional, based on the second sentence. Science is constantly improving on current ideas, which is great! Let's keep doing it!
• danieltillett 11y ago
  What gets left out of these time estimates is the error bars. Lets assume the claim that the evolution happened in a few million years is true, then what has happened in the original estimate was 10 million +-8 million years and the new estimate is 3 million +-1.5 million years. The two estimates actually overlap and all we are doing is improving the precision of the estimate. This happens in science all the time.
• maaku 11y ago
  It is also the scientists who are right...