Optimal-Firefighter9 t1_j0yp813 wrote
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We have fossil records of Oculudentavis khaungraae, which is a dinosaur less than three inches long that lived 100 million years ago.
If there were intelligent civilizations before us we would absolutely know.
I_Also_Fix_Jets t1_j0ysgde wrote
That's something that gets me, too. No spear heads or metalwork in the fossil record? No landfills? No burried stone tablets from some random agricultural exchange? Plausible, but the burden of proof is still on the claim makers.
Edit: punctuation
CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j0yr7rp wrote
Maybe dinosaurs were intelligent. We don’t know.
Optimal-Firefighter9 t1_j0yrj2h wrote
There are a lot of scientific reasons that we do know roughly how smart dinosaurs are, and the answer is the smartest dinosaurs were about as smart as the dumbest modern day birds.
CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j0yroy3 wrote
That we think we know. We don’t actually. We can only guess.
quadriplegic_cheetah t1_j0yuqiz wrote
By that logic we don’t know anything. Don’t even know what colour shirt you are wearing.
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Optimal-Firefighter9 t1_j0yxvdu wrote
That's not how science works. "We don't know anything," is some serious r/im14andthisisdeep material.
CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j0yziy0 wrote
So feel free to share some of these scientific reasons that dinosaurs at best were as smart as the dumbest birds of today. I’ll eagerly wait.
Optimal-Firefighter9 t1_j11a1vc wrote
That falls under the heading of "common knowledge". We learn about it in grade school.
You're the one making the entirely unsupported claim that dinosaurs were an intelligent civilization.
CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j11bnhl wrote
I didn’t claim that. I claimed we don’t know whether or not they were intelligent and we don’t. How could we? We weren’t there.
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