Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151126190829/@comment-53539-20151224123840

So a few days ago, creationist Bryan Fischer, or whatever his name is, tried to explain dinosaurs away by saying that being lizards they kept growing (as lizards do) and just lived a very long time... While this would be a satisfactory explainations... The closet relative to a dinosaur is the crocodile family and dinosaurs were ore closer to the last living dinosaurs aka "birds" (which don't continue to grow as they age) then lizards.

Nice try... But really, people need to get over the idea that Dinosaurs are just a spin off of the lizard family. Dimetrodon was an ancient lizard. We're closer related to Dimetrodon because Dimetrodon is a synasid. All dinosaurs, birds, etc, are Diapsid, whereas mammals are Synapsid like Dimetrodon. Even if you neglect evolution or don't believe it... There are so many holes in his logic. You'll see why I'm mentioning this in a moment.

Its becoming more and more apparent that repators had feathers in every instance they occurred thanks to the recent discover of the large Dakotaraptor bring home more and more the issue with comparing dinos to damn lizards. I'm not criticizing the belief, just how broken the explanation is, if you're going to come up with a alternative theory, stop relating dinosaurs to "lizard" entirely. Because, just as mammals are also descended from lizards, dinosaurs (especially birds) are as different to their lizards ancestors as we are to ours. So drop the lizard logic already... Jez... This is as bad as the Jurassic Park franchises depiction of dinosaurs.