Like a dinosaur
Hey, Jay!
I just read an article about Australians and attitudes to science. According to a recent survey about a third of us believe that humans and dinosaurs co-existed.
I know I do. I’ve got four small dinosaurs living in my backyard. In a coop with nesting boxes, and they deliver a couple of eggs a day.
Birds are dinosaurs. The old riddle of which came first is at last answered, because the ancestors of chickens were dinosaurs, and at some point a chicken hatched out of an egg that was not laid by a chicken.
But I was also thinking about a dinosaur video, one I love, and one I’m going to write about in the “Likes” section of this blog. One doesn’t often associate dinosaurs with the words “cute” and “love”, but I do!
And finally, there’s something about dinosaurs which transcends time. The fossilised bones may be millions of years old, but in our minds, the creatures are alive, flesh appearing over the huge bones, leathery skin covering the vast muscles, the tyrannosaurus coming to life and terrorising the schoolchildren in the museum.
The past isn’t all that distant. Once it was the present. And one day, we modern humans will seem as primitive and horrifying as any velociraptor, our warlike jet pilots strafing gentle whales and polar bears in some museum where the intelligent descendants of frogs gasp in awe.
Yours aye,
Peter
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