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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1963 called

[krell]

"Look at the film. You can see another meteor on the grassy knoll."

1963 called. It wants its nutty conspiracy theory back. Fortunately, there are plenty of cranks peddling tales of explosives in WTC buildings to give you plenty of new material.

Re:65 million?

[venicebeach]

I'm not at all suggesting that people give up their religious convictions

Why not? That's exactly what they should do. The fact that there are convictions immutable by evidence is the problem.

Re:65 million?

[ArcherB]

Read through the comments at the bottom. Seriously. These people really believe this stuff, and I've personally met people who, if you try to talk to them about almost anything scientific (like, oh say, 80,000-year-old human remains) will absolutely tell you "No, way! The Earth is only 6,000 years ago. It says so in the Bible!"

And there are even more people that think 9-11 was an inside job, yet they are seen as the smart ones here on /.

I'm not at all suggesting that people give up their religious convictions, but I am saying that some people need to stop confusing religion with science. They are separate disciplines and need to be separate. If you absolutely must believe that the choice is eaither A) God loves me and the Earth is only 6,000 years or B) there was a mass extinction event on the Earth 65 million years ago, so there can't be a God, then you are either seriously depraved or downright stupid.

Very well said. As a Christian myself, I do not try limit an infinite God to what can fit into my finite brain. I guess you could say that I take an agnostic approach to creation.