[35Kas]

I expect better of you Cid.

From the antipodal theory website (which is in itself a sound hypothesis, like Hella's basin and Olympus Mons in Mars):

"A new geology theory featuring impact-powered rapid continental drift as an alternative to plate tectonics.
The key to creation geology."

"Expanding Earth - Offers only generalizations
Hollow Earth - Offers only generalizations
Hydroplate - Offers only generalizations

Catastrophic Plate Tectonics - Offers only generalizations. Requires contrived initial conditions. Ignores trench rollback.

Plate Tectonics - Globally random; each location has its own little story. Driving forces are hidden.

Shock Dynamics - Virtually all features developed from the same event; features such as the Andes, Europe, the Philippines, the East African Rift Zone, the Mariana Trench, the Lord Howe Rise, the Appalachians, the New Hebrides, the Himalayas, the Bering Sea, etc. etc. Simple experiments show how turbulence in the shocked crust formed ocean floor features (click on blue above)."

This guy thinks that plate tectonics doesn't provide enough energy to cause the plates to rise, compress, bend, etc., but instead a few meteorites can cause all of it because of ripple effects on the crust from the impacts. Ridiculous enough when you calculate the total energy of an asteroid/comet before impact and disregard all the geological evidence, but when you understand that we have a hypothesis formed in a reversed manner, trying to fit the evidence around the conclusion, it becomes clear that this guy is another whacked out quack.

Please, if you are going to post evidence to back your argument, do some basic reading on the source and save yourself the embarrassment and our wasted time.

[35Kas]

Also, for your main article:

'"We found that not a single species went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact," says Keller.'

...Not a single species... I wouldn't bet money on that statement. Almost as if the day the meteor stroke was like any other, specially in the immediate vicinity of the crater, because when you have Gigatons of energy released in a few seconds the world around it goes on like it never even happened.

[Cid_Yama]

Just used the Antipodal Volcanism site to explain what antipodal volcanism was. (They had good pictures to explain) None of the stuff you said you found there is on the page I linked to.

In context, not a single of the 52 species they documented in sedimentary layers prior to the impact were missing from the sedimentary layers following the impact. You need to read more closely.

Plantagenet,

Keller is not the only scientist discounting the impact theory.(Your ad hominem attack just showing who's the loon.)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ew discoveries about the timing and speed of gigantic, 6500-foot (2-km) thick lava flows that poured out of the ground 65 million years ago could shift the blame for killing the dinos.

The Deccan Traps of India are one of Earth's largest lava flows ever, with the potential of having wreaked havoc with the climate of the Earth - if they erupted and released climate-changing gases quickly enough.

French and Indian geologists have now identified a 600-meter (2000-foot) thick portion of the lava that may have piled up in as little as 30,000 years - fast enough to have possibly caused a deadly global climate shift.

"Our working hypothesis is that the majority of the total volume of lava might have been erupted in only a few major events spread over only a small fraction of millennia," said Anne-Lise Chenet of the Laboratoire de Paleomagnetisme, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP).

Chenet and her colleagues' new work on the Deccan Traps is just the latest in a series of discoveries which appear to weaken the case implicating the Chicxulub impact as the primary player in the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction.