What kind of living things were on earth before the dinosaurs?

Question

I don't want to hear green slime bullshit. If we evolved from something, what did they evolve from. A Brontosaurus I believe was about the size of two school buses. What did they evolve from? Something is missing?

Answer 1

Evolution is only a theory. The theory states that more complex life forms evolved from more simple life forms. A brontosaurus, according to the theory, would evolve from a much smaller plant eater with a much smaller neck. I don't know the exact name of the species, but I can get that information for you though it goes beyond the scope of this question.

There are bones of apelike animals that would have had brains equal in size to our own, but bone structure vastly different than human beings bones. Did modern humans wipe out intelligent apes or was that us? The theory of evolution has flaws like the Big Bang theory and many other scientific theories. The theory of evolution is far from perfect which is why you can't seem to make sense of it.

What is missing from the theory is the so-called "missing link." If a giraffe evolved a longer neck over millions of years why are there no bones of these intermediary stages of giraffes with slightly longer necks? Just its ancestor and the modern animal.

Answer 2

I think you're rightly concerned with her telling that nonsense to your children. Some dinosaurs did survive, and they're called birds. If there was a canopy of water in the sky, no sunlight would get through. Water, even purified water, is not 100% transparent, and water miles thick is opaque. And her version of the deluge story doesn't say where the water went when it was all over. Also, a half a year to a year of being covered in miles of water would kill all land plants, and the added pressure would kill all the ocean dwelling creatures who suddenly had 850+ atmospheres of pressure added to them. That's assuming the freshwater influx at 30 feet an hour didn't dilute the water and kill them first. However, if you're married, it's a partnership, and therefor it's not "my house and my children", it's "our house and our children". She's also probably been told there's no middle ground, that there's a dichotomy between religion and science. Which isn't true. Many Christians accept science. For example, they aren't creationists, but believe in theistic evolution. Which isn't science, but it's mostly compatible with science. It doesn't say not to study science, it just says there's the mysterious hand of God behind it all. It doesn't make sense to me, but it's not hostile to learning, so I can't complain.

Answer 3

The green slime isnt bull technically.
Bacterial organisms did exist. Life went from single celled, to multicelled organisms. Dinosaurs as you know them came from smaller reptiles, which came from even smaller ones. It was over many millions of years, a big dino just didnt pop out of a turtle.
There are many examples of simple organisms in the water, which eventually adapted to living on land as some became biologically more complex. The rest is history.
This is over simplified of course, but it would take too long to type all the details.

Answer 4

Life started off as a collection of simple single celled organisms, like bacteria about 2.5 BILLION years ago. They gradually grew more and more complex as the millions of years passed. It actually took another BILLION years for those single celled life forms to begin to form more complex multi cellular creatures. The dinosaurs didn't evolve until about 200 million years go.

Answer 5

Supposedly micro-organisms - but lordy that's a big jump from tiny things you can only see through a micro-scope to something the size of a Brontosaurus or T-Rex. I'd say that must have taken a few years.

Answer 6

Check the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution

for a full timeline of evolution, from that "green slime" you speak of, up through today. It shows the progression from that "slime" to simple celled, multi-celled, sponges, jelly-fish, fish, land animals, etc. Be aware that there were mammals around with the dinosaurs, already.

Answer 7

fish...and fish evolved from invertebrates and invertebrates evolved from single celled organisms. So in essence we all evolved from single celled organisms that multiplied in multicelled organism....it's as easy as that.

Why is it so hard to believe in evolution? Is it b/c you actually have an answer to the oldest question..... as to where we came from.... and that scares you b/c you realize that there actually might not be god or a higher power and there isn't a reason for our existence?

Answer 8

the green slime is not bullshit,

mostly we (us and the dinosaurs) evolved from simple bacteria, yup, most of our ancestors were bacteria

very humbling indeed

Answer 9

More primitive reptilians life forms that did not qualify as dinosaurs (along with other unrelated primitive amphibians, fishes, crustaceans, insects, etc.). Those primitive reptiles evolved from even more primitive amphibians, which evolved from primitive fishes).

Answer 10

Okay what evolution? anywayz Evolution IS NOT TRUE!! God made us Humans in his image. Where not Gods but just made in his image. God made the dinosaurs and everything we walk on or even see. There is NO possible way that little organisms could just all lf suddenly gather together to make us?! I mean even scientists think so to. But then they hide stuff because IF people find out They wouldn't trust them anymore.. DUH!! anywayz yea READ it in the BIBLE!! You'll see at the same time prophecies are fulfilling to this very day.. anywayz yea PCE: