Dinosaur Scifi... Ah. The wonders of TV.

(Via Paleo Errata)

Dinosaur scifi is such a limited field down to just about Jurassic Park and a couple episodes of Sliders. But, time traveling to the past seems like such an awesome idea if you have a lot of nice technology. Though, I wonder how hard it would be to get the science right. Somehow it should undoubtedly be a bunch of dinosaurs in a modern looking place, and older-style dinosaurs. So pretty much not difference in the age of the critters or when they actually properly existed and there will doubtfully be any of them with feathers. That's my standard issue complaint about anything with dinosaurs now... not enough feathers.

Eddie Izzard: Dinosaurs and Jesus

Scientists were wrong, the death knell for creationism..

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I firmly believe that creationists are going to take a thumping when science rectifies one of its major errors. The idea that dinosaurs are roughly lizards is completely wrong, in fact, they are much closer to primitive birds. And with some of the new fossils coming out of China it seems pretty clear. A lot of dinosaurs probably had feathers and at the very least down.

Now shouldn't creationists latch on to this mistake and declare science inept and thusly wrong and them thusly right? Well, no. Because the truth is dinosaurs were a lot more evolved than we gave them credit for. So making the modern understanding of dinosaurs that of feathered dinosaurs will much more easily be seen as evidence for evolution. "Wow, it went from scales to feathers in generation. It's evolving before my very eyes!"