Study Provides Compelling Evidence of Single Impact Extinction Theory

ectotherm writes to tell us that a new study at the University of Missouri-Columbia claims to provide compelling evidence that a single meteor impact was the cause of animal extinction 65 million years ago. From the article: "MacLeod and his co-investigators studied sediment recovered from the Demerara Rise in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of South America, about 4,500 km (approximately 2,800 miles) from the impact site on the Yucatan Peninsula. Sites closer to and farther from the impact site have been studied, but few intermediary sites such as this have been explored."

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Re:65 million?

[buswolley]

Sorry about the html screwups above.

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[Captain Splendid]

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Public School

[jcnnghm]

The problem is with the education system. I don't see what the big deal is, but then again I went to private Catholic elementary, middle, and high schools, where we learned about science in classes called Science and religion in classes called Religion.

Seems pretty logical to me. The catholics that actually teach it taught that the bible should be taken as a collection of stories that can assist you in making moral decisions. Not necessarily fact, for fact we have science class. We were taught about evolution, darwinism, and the big bang and it wasn't presented as a theory either, but fact.

Interestingly enough, at one point or another we went into great detail about pretty much every major religion and belief system. Would it really hurt to learn about religion as a whole as long as it isn't taught in a secular manner? We did, which is probably why I don't practice any religion.