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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan
Your sources are so typical of LIEberal lies; they are always trying to blame human activity for some problem or alleged impending catastrophe. The so-called "predators" that the Europeans brought were domesticated animals that are typically not predatory (and I doubt that they brought any "pet" pythons along either). The dodo was also a large bird (typically weighting around 50 pounds) that reportedly tasted bad and had tough meat. No one was interested in eating them.
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The python was just an example to illustrate that such fear is not instinctive, it must be learned from society.
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By your reasoning the chicken and turkey should also be extinct as they can not fly and only have a beak to defend themselves. There is also nothing much dumber than a chicken or a turkey (with the possible exception of some of the unsaved trash that post on this Godly forum). Your assertion that the dodo was "fearless" of people is pure speculation, there were no reports of it and there are no dodo's around to test that hypothesis.
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On your first point, you are quite mistaken for humans domesticated both (though not to such an extent with the turkey) for their good-tasting meat. As such, many were largely protected from predators and others learned to avoid humans rather quickly as their habitats were developed.
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What you did not do is thoroughly read and comprehend your own Wikipedia references. Had you done so you would have come across possibly the real cause of the dodo's extinction:
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You still defeat your own point in this.
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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan
It is only mass extinction that occurs in a brief period of time
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For again we are not talking about a mass extinction, an extinction that generally affects taxonomic groups rather than an individual species. We are talking about the localized extinction of a single avian species and you have only proved that such a flood would only have aided in the extermination of an "already extinction-prone species." This statement suggests that the Dodo was already on its way towards extinction prior to the supposed flood.