Armageddon Week

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

I watched some of the shows running on "The History Channel" for its "Armageddon Week" event.

The number one thing that I got out of it was how much of what we think we know seems to hinge on the assumptions of "experts".

There is (according to last night's show) an argument about whether the big rock that fell from the sky 65 million years or so ago was the "event" that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, or simply incidental to the extinction which had already occurred.

Side A (the rock did not do it, nyah-nyah we are smarter than anyone else because we figured this out) says that if the rock was the defining event, why are there no masses of dino corpses at the boundary layer? That it begs reason to not have lots and lots of places where dino corpses are found layered up (in essence).

Side B (the rock did it, you heathens) says that there are no masses of dino bodies simply because the dinos did not conveniently pile up in areas where their remains would be fossilized.

The reality seems to be everything we "know" about the extinction of the dinosaurs is a "guess", and pretty much based on the person who had the most powerful personality at first, and then became the entrenched Thesis and all who disagree must be purged.

I guess we are going to have to wait for one of two events to really know what happened to the dinosaurs (and what caused the other "mass extinction events" that have plagued the planet.

Either we are going to invent the "time viewing device" so that we can switch it on and watch events in the past unfold . . .

or we are going to have to wait until we each, individually, "pass beyond the veil" and ask the dinosaurs in person.