But there is plenty of them with tools near them and there are plenty of tools without them in their time-line. But there is no findings of anything that resembles a tool at that we can place in the relevant time-frame for dinosaurs. There isn't even any hints about the civilization. So, you can fantasize all you want but it is only a fantasy, nothing more.
Yes, but we have hundreds, perhaps thousands of specimens of early primates. Also please say what you mean by 'plenty', and provide sources to back up your claim.
There is absence of evidence for civilization and you still claim that there was civilization. What else this is if not claiming that absence of evidence equals evidence.
I claim that a maritime civilisation was probable given the fossil record.
So, you take a irrelevant specimen and try to make a point. If Tyranosaurs didn't have civilization and were scattered around area then there isn't anything to find. Now bring me a relevant example for a large area civilization developing some tens of millions years and from what we have only speculation and zero findings.
zork, if you're not going to read my posts, don't reply to them. You are exposing yourself as either stupid or dishonest. Your argument is a total straw man, and is only exceptional because it is so obvious.
Not it isn't. You are just being deliberately stubborn. There are fossil findings down to 2.7 billion years ago and thousands of findings for organisms/animals from 600 million to 60 million years. The percentages displayed are just a demagogy.
Yes, but we are not suggesting that all creatures used tools! We are suggesting that a certain species of dinosaur (and possibly some of its ancestors) used tools. Please show us the "thousands" of findings for these species, or else accept that comparison with humans is ridiculous. Also, as James himself said:
If anybody has any disagreement with these figures and processes, provide me with new variables. If you believe that either of the following:
Total number of dinosaur specimens discovered by humanity
Total number of dinosaurs, on average, born every year during the 160 million years in which they existed
ought to be different, please provide your own variables. I assure you that any reasonable estimates will yield the result that a miniscule percentage of the total dinosaurs which have existed have actually been found, and that the same would be true of the boats they built.
If there was a civilization built during tens of millions of years(just look where the humans got with some 100 000 years) with tools and buildings then the possibility of them disappearing without leaving any signs is zero. The signs about the creators of such civilizations are disappering first and the signs about the civilization remain longer. I say again, define your civilization or there is nothing to talk about because you and James talk about some very primitive social community at least but nothing more. And that is definitely not civilization.
Semantics, and a comment which shows you are totally unaware of the huge amount of debate and discourse surrounding the term 'civilisation'. It is anything but fixed or clearly defined. Moreover, the precise term is irrelevant. I am happy to describe it as a primitive, ocean-faring social community if you like. It doesn't make a bit of difference.
There is no evidence for the boat or even raft buildings. So, there isn't anything that suggest the existence of civilization. You are just making things up.
The distribution of fossils suggests a maritime culture.
His theory is also based only on assumption that the continents were unchangeable for the last 200 or more million years. That notion is absurd even if the plate tectonic theory isn't right.
What?
And the place he uses is the Bering Strait which is covered with ice in the winter and offers a possibility to cross over without any boats. There is also very great possibility that it was considerably narrower 200 million years ago or the continents were connected with land. In addition, only the construction of rafts and boats won't let you cruise over the Pacific Ocean. You need navigation skills also.
1) The distribution of fossil evidence, which is our only source of evidence, does ot yet suggest crossings cia the Bering Strait.
2) Plenty of nomadic human cultures crossed oceans without advanced navigation tools. As for navigation 'skills', plenty of animals possess this, both at sea and on land (notably avian dinosaurs).
Short summary - nice pictures and some facts mixed with fantasies. But at least it seems that there is some effort put in it. I guess I come back for it after some time. For now I want to say that, was it so hard to provide your source? Search won't give this message up so easy so I guess you must know the exact right keywords for the search.
It isn't hard at all. I searched for posts by James containing the word 'dinosaur'. That topic is one of the first results. I'm sure more specific searches (e.g. You've been here long enough, so I don't see why I should present links to arrogant RE'ers who simply can't be bothered to look themselves.
I don't dismiss sources in advance. They are just not easy to find ad you playing kindergarten child play "I know but I don't tell you" won't make things easier. You refusing to disclose your sources makes you seem equally inconsistent and petulant. I can very well describe you with the same words as you did. You are no better.
Earlier you specifically stated you would not accept his posts/messages as work. How easy or difficult they are to find, or how reluctant I am to satisfy the lazy and arrogant, is irrelevant.
As for James "work" then it is in no way serious. I have no problem to come back to it later when I have some time but the main faults in his theory is that he just fantasizes without any supportive real findings and discards the known facts that the continents weren't as they are now 200-100 hundred millions years ago. Also the overall time-line which is tens of millions of years. That is plenty of time to develop something more in addition to primitive raft building.
zork, you have presented no contrary evidence whatsoever. People in glass houses...