Not sure what would be so hard to comprehend about asteroid impacts and extinction. Look at the surface of the Earth via GoogleEarth and you will find that the surface of our planet is pock-marked with scars of major impacts around the world. <br><br>Take Hudson Bay in Canada, for instance. Clearly, Carl Sagan was on the right path when he mentioned the lower eastern region of the bay is a perfect arc, indicating at one point that a crater rim was pushed up from impact. My theory is that a major impact took place somewhere else in the world which thrust our planet in to an ice age. The Hudson Bay impact is what set off the grain plains flooding millions of years after and is also the point where Earth lost most of it's water out in to space from sublimation. The impact formed the North American landscape as we know it today. The proof is having found coral reefs and sea shells at 5000 feet altitudes ...<br><br>Science as a belief, by far, is better than adhering to principals of talking snakes and incestuous practices in my opinion.

<blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Alex Woronow said:</i><br><br>Yes, it's true! Science is decided by votes of panels--it's worked so many times in the past it's got to be right this time! <br><br>I think Karl Popper said something to the effect, Nature does not care what you <u>think</u> is true! <br><br>But narrowing the competition for grant money can be vital to getting <i>your</i> offspring through college or being able to afford your a new Jetta! (By the way, DUCK!!! Here comes another asteroid-send my grant money--Oh, sorry, it's not coming. Anyway thanks for $$$!)</div></blockquote><br>Actually, it's the evidence that counts. And the EVIDENCE is that an asteroid was the cause/part of the cause.

I didn't hear any mention of the frogs.<br>There are some disconcerting pieces of evidence that should give one pause in declaring the asteroid impact to be the sole cause of the dinosaurs demise.<br>One thing that doesn't get mentioned much is that there is a lot of evidence that the dinosaurs were in decline before the impact. It may not have taken much to push them over the edge.<br>And let's not forget the frogs.<br>These amphibians are notoriously sensitive to environmental changes yet they survived the impact and its aftermath. How? Until this is explained I think I'll withhold my vote.<br><br>dan kowall

I agree. I think its a load of bull that they would come to a conclusion like this was american idol or something. The science community have got an ego the size of the oort cloud (which still hasn't been proven exists yet, maybe they will put that to a vote as well) that they actually believe the cosmos revolves around them. Pretty soon our childrens text books will be filled with crap that is stated as scientific fact when no real world hardcore evidence is presented, oh wait that has already happened. The real scientists are the amateurs who do it for the love, not the dollars.

Remarkable! <br><br>It's not about what actually happened; it the audacity of thinking that a scientific fact can be decided by majority opinion. <br><br>Why don't high schools teach logic instead of shop? Maybe we'd have better political leaders too!