| Re: On Creating Imaginary Worlds: Questions and Answers
I was looking at an elementary science textbook the other day and was checking out their pictures of dinosaurs.
Okay, they don't know what color they were, but have to make them some color. And understandably, kids will end up thinking that's the color a Triceratops is, etc.
But they had a picture of a winged reptile skimming above the ocean scooping with its long, pelican-like lower jaw. And the text SAID that the bird drank and fed by that method.
Well, guess what, you don't have to be a rocket scientist or avionics engineer to know that a huge bird can't skim along the water scooping up fish. But there is was, in a science book. Based on actual fossil evidence, right?
Bounds have been overstepped, "proof positive" overstated, faith diminished. |