• 0ops@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Dang I didn’t even notice that logical inconsistency until you pointed it out. It should say “The mountains aren’t just older than dinosaurs.”

      Of course you’re getting downvoted to hell because everyone either didn’t slow down to read it more carefully or can’t understand sarcasm.

      • Zeshade@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The other reason I was initially confused, but reading this thread helped, is that by presence of bones in the cave they don’t just mean that there aren’t any bones lying around, brought in by cavemen or bears dying in the cave. They imply that the cave is basically not accessible normally and what would be found in it (bones, fossils etc), if there was anything, can only come from the time when those mountains were formed. I think… Maybe that was obvious for some people.

    • Player2@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      All dinosaurs may have bones, but not all bones are from dinosaurs.

      • Poiar@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        This is not the poster is pointing out.

        It’s basically two booleans that don’t go together

        Is the mountains older than the dinosaurs = false

        Is the mountains older than bones = true

        They should both be true, but the writer had the first be false, hence leading to all dinosaurs being boneless. I guess it’s a colloquialism in the English language, otherwise all y’all wouldn’t had downvote the poster for being pedantic

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      They didn’t. The bone like structures inside of dinosaurs are called fossils, and they’re closer to rock than bone