If the dino was 110 millions years old, he would not be found anywhere near the surface of the Earth. He would be under miles and miles of dirt and sediment and likely decomposed to microscopic particles.
Even villages excavated from several thousand years ago are covered witn many feet of dirt.
Think folks! Think!
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What really worries me is not the statement, which is the typical drivel, but the subtext, being that if the dinosaur skeletons are near the surface and therefore not true, it follows that... what? I don't even want to go there.
He would be under miles and miles of dirt and sediment and likely decomposed to microscopic particles.
Oil shale? the "miles and miles" is hyperbole, certainly, but, yeah, oil shale.
Because we all know the Earth's surface is completely UNIFORM and always has been. Everywhere, exactly the same. No mountains or hills or glaciers or shifting plates or erosion or different sediments.
...so what the heck does he think dinosaur bones are, then? Recent tricks of teh debbil? You know, it actually wouldn't surprise me if that were the case.
Think folks! Think!"
We do... you obviously don't.
F O S S I L S
Say it, c'mon, you can if if you try.
Here's another one
E R O S I O N
Good boy. Here's a cookie, go play now.
The majority of dinosaurs are found in dried up river beds, where the flow of water has carried silt down the river, burrying the dinosaur but not covering it too much. Other dinosaurs are covered in mud, dirt, and silt, but something happens, causing some of that to fall away, thus exposing part of the dinosaur and alerting paleontologists to its existance.
SCIENCE TO THE RESCUE:
no. no. no. no.
depending on the conditions surrounding the dinosaur's death, he could be buried hundreds of feet deep. in fact, it's very possible that he is.
but a fossil is not decomposed. what happens with fossils is that they are covered in mud or a landslide too fast for them to decompose. as they decompose, particles of stone seep into where their flesh and tissue once were. these particles harden and create a 'plaster cast' of the dinosaur.
then perhaps they are hundreds of feet underground. that's why fossils are often discovered in eroded areas. rivers dig deeper and deeper into the soil, exposing bare rock/dirt on their sides. if the river flows long enough, it carves a deep canyon. it's possible that the exposed rock has a fossil. that is how fossils are found.
yes, villages are often buried. this doesn't prove your point. wind and water erosion could conceivably expose buried villages as well.
the point is that fossilized dinosaurs did decompose. but since they were buried in stone and mud as they decomposed, the particles of stone seeped into the space left by the decomposed flesh.
Q.E.D.
in other words: you are wrong.
> Even villages excavated from several thousand years ago are covered witn many feet of dirt.
Indeed, and most of those mounds are the product of centuries of accumulated ruins and midden heaps. Not quite as naturalistic a process as you might expect from the average T Rex burial.
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