Your Oviraptor fossil story (Main news, Dec. 21) was fascinating, but also wonderfully amusing.
How is it that such renowned “scientists” can calculate precisely that this 9-foot-tall bird lived “80 million years ago” but are unable to count the number of eggs in the nest? Insisting that there were “at least 15 eggs . . . each about 7 inches long and 3 inches wide,” is plausible, but then suggesting that there may have been 22 eggs indicates a tendency to engage in wild speculation. Somebody’s scientific arithmetic is showing!
If I can’t place any credibility in their counting from 15 to 22, how can I be certain that their highly doubtful calculations of “80 million years” are anything more than evolutionary hocus-pocus? Am I to believe that their unproven, unscientific, uniformitarian principles used for age calculations are not upset by this hypothetical sandstorm that froze the poor bird on its nest? Would not such a sudden and violent storm be enough to cataclysmically destroy their evolutionary theories? Such slipshod mathematics makes me wonder: Are these really scientists, or are they simply disguised missionaries propping up an atheistic theology?
