What about DINOSAURS? Didn't they exist?

[Ahriman]

and science.. [chuckles], science is a lie.

http://xkcd.com/298/

 

[Set]

http://xkcd.com/298/

I am putting out a plea to the moderators to close this thread that while very funny has absoulutely nothing to do with ciV and even it's own title

 

[The_Reckoning]

Dinosaurs should be an easter egg if you call your faction Creationists.

They'd spawn like barbarian animals but be way stronger. Your faction would not generate any science points, but each dinosaur would drop a tech.

 

[toft]

Civilization is a term used to describe a certain kind of development of a human society.[1] A civilized society is often characterized by advanced agriculture, long-distance trade, occupational specialization, and urbanism. Aside from these core elements, civilization is often marked by any combination of a number of secondary elements, including a developed transportation system, writing, standards of measurement (currency, etc.), contract and tort-based legal systems, great art style, monumental architecture, mathematics, sophisticated metallurgy, and astronomy.

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[BlackSpy]

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You're missing the point though that dinosaurs laid the foundations for all of those things and so rightly deserve credit for them all.

You can't have steam engines without dinosaurs, you can't have the Sistine chapel without dinosaurs and you can't have World War I without dinosaurs.

They may not have invented, painted or fought those things, but they set up the world for them to take place and as such their inheritors really deserve little if any credit.

 

[Chalks]

You're missing the point though that dinosaurs laid the foundations for all of those things and so rightly deserve credit for them all.

You can't have steam engines without dinosaurs, you can't have the Sistine chapel without dinosaurs and you can't have World War I without dinosaurs.

They may not have invented, painted or fought those things, but they set up the world for them to take place and as such their inheritors really deserve little if any credit.

Well said.

Dinosaurs literally invented giant awesome things. We would be nowhere without them.

 

[Afforess]

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[Sciguy001]

They should also change the end date from 2050 to the far more accurate 2012.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Wait, I thought the world was created on October 23 4004 BC . . .

Well, give or take a thousand or so years, it was!

 

[phungus420]

humans didn't exist in 1000000 bc

Depends on what you define as a "human", this is actually an area of quite bit of contention, as some peolontolgists define Homo erectus and ergaster as Archaic Homo sapiens, and not a distinct species (though I disagree with this assertion, because I do not believe Homo sapiens will reproduce with individuals that they cannot communicate with; converasation is a vital part of human mating practices; but biologically they probably "could" reproduce with modern humans, but in modern definitions behaviors are also taken into account when we discuss the ability to produce viable offspring). Homo erectus was controlling fire and using stone tools a million years ago; so it's not as far back as you think. Humans did not evolve all of a sudden, the process is much more gradual then most people realize.

 

[Never]

Well dinosaurs should definitely by a default Civilization in Pangea maps-types, that's for sure. I don't think they had any cities though did they? Just huts and camps like.

 

[Ahriman]

Well dinosaurs should definitely by a default Civilization in Pangea maps-types, that's for sure. I don't think they had any cities though did they? Just huts and camps like.

A common myth spread by anti-Dinotic Christian propaganda. The dinosaurs were at least as advanced as the Incans or the Romans!

And as culturally significant as Renaissance Italy!

 

[Never]

I suppose that makes sense. Would explain the pyramids.

 

[Willem]

They may not have invented, painted or fought those things, but they set up the world for them to take place and as such their inheritors really deserve little if any credit.

Actually they didn't, in fact they held things back while they were around. Mammals, which we evolved from, didn't get the chance to diversify until the dinosaurs had all died off. Had that asteroid not wiped them out, or whatever it was, civilization may never have developed on this planet at all.

 

[chongli]

I see dinosaurs every day. I watched them make a nest in a shrub in my front yard. The young squabs have since flown the nest.

 

[KIEJ.MANIK]

Have you ever seen a real dinosaur? Of course you haven't, and you never will. Fact! That's because they never existed, and science.. [chuckles], science is a lie.

I believe in dinosaurs because they were in the bible, they're actually demons called behemoths

 

[ori]

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