Tag Archives: Deccan Traps

Follow-up: Maybe Chicxulub didn’t do it

Impact: Impact Event    March 6, 2010
Not enough evidence. It’s one of the most important, and difficult to evaluate, criticisms in science. In his blog “In terra veritas” post 41 Angry Scientists, Bryan (a geologist) takes on the Science article The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. He has two main complaints: The ‘panel of 41’ that [...]
Posted in Impact: Impact Event | Also tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Science panel: Chicxulub did it

Impact: Impact Event    March 5, 2010
Sometimes ‘the facts’ discovered by science answer questions by themselves, but much of the time facts are used for competing hypotheses. Sometimes more facts settle the issue of which hypothesis better fits the facts, but like as not, the ‘better fit’ is a matter of interpretation. If the issue at hand is important enough, scientists [...]
Posted in Impact: Impact Event | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment