No one says that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs unless they don't understand the extinction event.

Today a scientific journal by the Geological Society delivered an article about how the dinosaurs didn't die of an asteroid and that the event may have happened as much as 300,000 years apart.

For some odd reason people don't seem to really understand what this means and they don't understand how the extinction event occurred.

The asteroid was not the only event that killed the dinosaurs and scientists do not say it is. There were many problems that destroyed the dinosaurs.

The earth was cooling down and any cold blooded creatures would have had a very difficult time dealing with it (probably caused by the breakup of Pangaea). Dinosaurs could grow larger before this time because there was enough heat to allow it.

There's evidence of rampant disease caused by this event (and probably other events that build up to cause it).

Smaller dinosaurs were better adapted and there is also evidence that mammalian egg stealer's could destroy whole nests of eggs very quickly.

Extreme volcanic activity caused environmental changes (like acid rain).

The asteroid was only the final blow, it was not the entire cause.

Its very frustrating for the educated among us to see these half truths told to people. Real education and understanding cannot happen unless a person understands as much of the actual story as possible. This is why courts don't make a decision based on a single clue.

Ignorance is a disease in our society caused by laziness on the part of both teachers and students.

It needs to change. The worlds problems cannot be solved when people are too lazy to do the work to solve them in full understanding.