10:46 pm - "The Flintstones" Was Not A Documentary
Velociraptors were really pussies and not vicious at all, and were probably hunted to extinction by men some time after the flood. This proves Creationism, apparently (despite relying on the Cretinist assertion that men and velociraptors lived at the same time).
Then how about this little critter called a velociraptor which was portrayed in the movie "Jurassic Park" as being a terrifying monster? Let's compare it to many of the other predators man has hunted into extinction or near extinction over the past few thousand years. It was supposed to have stood 5 feet tall (about the height of a small pygmy), weighed 150 pounds, and had a top running speed of 30 to 40 miles per hour. Remember that bipedal animals are easier for man to kill because the heart is exposed and not hiding behind the head like a quadrapedal animal.
Excuse me? The heart is protected by the head in quadrupedal animals? Of course, because hitting it in the head couldn't possibly harm the animal, right?
The poster also seems to think a top running speed of 30 to 40 miles per hour is slow. The average human running speed is 15 miles per hour. The Olympic Record for human running speed is 23 miles per hour (and that was an exceptional human over a short distance). Actually, 30-40 miles per hour is a little on the high side for a velociraptor: we now think they could run more like 24 miles per hour, but that's still faster than the speed of aforementioned exceptional human being over a short distance.
The point is, of course, kind of silly. Proving that man could have survived if he had lived at the same time as the dinosaurs does not prove that he lived at the same time as the dinosaurs, anyway. But if your argument is going to be based on flawed logic, it should at least be based on sound facts.
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