Dinosaurs are
proliferating at an enormous rate, but are there really as many as the
doctors of paleontology want us to believe. A large part of this branch of
science relys on funding by grants in various forms. In the movie Jurassic
Park Dr. Grant went to the Hammond's island because Hammond said he would
fund him for another three years. So much effort in paleontology is spent
getting funding through grants. Grants are given based on the "newness"
or "discovery" nature of the specific work. The world's natural history
muesums are full of thousdands of bones that have never been cataloged
because they belong to species already named, so finding a new creature is
much more valuable than digging up another skeleton of an existing one. A
newly named creature almost certainly assures continued and/or new funding.
As a result many new creatures are created out of extremly scanty
evidence. A piece of skull or a tooth often results in a new creature.
For eaxmlpe, in 1998 scientists announced a new dinosaur discovery that was
named "Gigantosaurus". It's description was very similar to a T-Rex only
somewhat larger. Why wasn't it "T-Rex max? A new name brings money and
money was needed to continue the dig. There is more variety among the
skulls of the different domestic dogs than there is between T-Rex and
Gigantosaurus.
Here is a list of some of the Dinosaurs listed in "A Field Guide to
Dinosaurs" and their evidence. Quoted from Creation Study Group Newsletter:
Greenville, SC; March 1994: