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Thursday, February 17, 2011

How science keeps turning your childhood into crap

Remember pterosaurs, kids? Those nifty, dragonlike flying reptiles of times most ancient, screeching terrors of the skies, who soar above a volcano-ridden jungle landscape, ready to snatch up hapless bikini-clad cavewomen for delivery to their gigantic, bird-like nest of hungry hatchlings? They looked like this, didn't they?


Well, the only problem with that image is that it's about 80 years old. Eighty years is a long time in any subject, but in palaentology* it's ridiculously long. Science keeps marching on. So what image for pterosaurs does science give us now?


GAAAAH! WTF is that thing?! If something like that actually existed, it would be an argument for the existence of an Intelligent Designer--and it would also mean that the Designer was probably Doctor-friggin-Seuss.

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