David Attenborough's Life Stories. Dragons

Dragons: David Attenborough recalls how he was confronted by a 10 foot long dragon. Did he run, no he was the first to film the Komodo Dragon in the wild and reveals that females dont really need a male.

This was originally broadcast on Fri, 17 July 2009, on BBC Radio 4. All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the BBC Podcasts shall remain the property of the BBC or third parties.

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Education

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• David Attenborough
• BBC
• Radio 4
• Komodo Dragon
• Dragons
• Indonesia
• Parthenogenesis
• Nature
• Wildlife
• Science
• Evolution
• Natural Selection

[BinaryBunyip]

Some dislike Kent Hovind, but he's worth a listen when he's talking about Dinosaurs in the Bible. The word Dinosaur was created after the word Dragon. Apparently the word 'Gargoyle' was in reference to spiking a Dragons head on a building after slaying it. Maybe humans had a huge conflict between 'Dragons' and we've forgotten about it, becasue we want to forget the 'nasty' things which happen.

[Samael994]

@BinaryBunyip

I presume you are trolling here. However if you do seriously believe the nonsense you just posted I can, if you wish, explain why exactly you are wrong.

[BinaryBunyip]

@Samael994

Your presumption is wrong. Just admit that we'll probably never know the truth about what happened a few million years ago.

[Samael994]

@BinaryBunyip

I do not claim to know everything that happened millions of years ago. However, there are things that we do know. For example, we KNOW that dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago, a good 64.5 million years before humans began to emerge. We know these things due to large quantities of good quality evidence. No human has ever seen a living dinosaur.

Kent Hovind is a liar, a fool and a convicted fraudster. I would pick my information sources more carefully if I were you.

[BinaryBunyip]

@Samael994

But yet, scientists also claim dinosaurs evolved into birds, like the T-rex into a chicken. That has to be wrong 0_0. Plus we have things like the crocodiles (& other reptiles & fish) some insects & trees which have apparently been here since Dinosaurs.

Who's 'we' exactly? Not you obviously, becasue you don't claim to know the truth. Either do I, Hovind has been punished. Don't keep a grudge like some strange teenager.

There's worse than Hovind.

[Samael994]

@BinaryBunyip

Don't be asinine, no reputable scientist has ever claimed that T-Rex evolved into a chicken, though it is entirely true that birds are indeed descended from dinosaurs. Again, this is something we KNOW, due to large quantities of good scientific evidence.

Yes, some species have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and we have evidence of that. We have NO evidence that dinosaurs and humans ever interacted.

We = People that bother to look at current scientific evidence.

[Samael994]

@BinaryBunyip

Disregarding Hovind has nothing to do with an irrational grudge, it is based entirely on his track record. The nonsense he (and his son) have spewed over the years is not just erroneous, but most of the time physically impossible. His ice canopy "theory", for example, breaks the several laws of physics. He has no qualification whatsoever to lecture about science. If you are in any doubt about this I suggest you read his doctoral thesis, a child would make less spelling mistakes.

[Anan7777]

@limbdarkening My wife said the same thing :)

[Anan7777]

@limbdarkening My wife said the same thing :)

[limbdarkening]

What the hell is the point of a male then?!