Paleobiorogy

I love the smell of new blog. It always gets me excited that something new is happening. Maybe my excitement over the creation of this blog shows my penchant for seeking out new things. Anyway.

So in my paleobiology class, we spend three hours a week looking at pictures of fossils and fossil analysis techinques. The more time I spend in this class, I start to figure that all the "facts" our teachers told us about dinosaurs and ancient life forms when we were kids are nothing more than a bunch of somewhat educated guesses. Of course, most of academia is an educated guess, but the dinosaur shit is really stretching it. I'm a little too lazy to explain why here, but let's just say that in order to classify all of these fossils into species make inferences about how they lived, you have to have to make quite a few leaps of faith. And by leaps of faith, I mean blind guesses. But then again, it's probably easier for me to say this because I've only scratched the surface of it.

The professor, however, sounds like a Japanese Mr. Feeny, and I think it's absolutely hilarious.

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