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A more recent theory was put forth by a father-and-son team, Luis and Walter Alvarez. Walter Alvarez discovered, outside the town of Gubbio in central Italy, a curious thin, red layer of clay sandwiched between two limestone layers in the rock formation. The lower layer of limestone yielded an abundance of fossils. The top layer was almost devoid of fossils, leading the geologists to conclude that life suddenly disappeared and that the thin, red layer of clay had some connection with the extinction.

Analysis revealed that the clay was rich in iridium (a metal), 30 times richer than the concentration normally found in rocks. They knew that such high concentrations of this rare element could come only from the earth’s core or from sources outside the earth. They concluded that the iridium was deposited by a huge asteroid that hit the earth, causing the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs.

After the discovery of the iridium-enriched clay at Gubbio, similar deposits were found in other parts of the world. Did this corroborate the asteroid hypothesis? Some scientists remain skeptical. But as the book The Riddle of the Dinosaur acknowledges, the Alvarez hypothesis added “fresh yeast to the study of extinction and evolution.” And paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould admits that it could diminish “the importance of competition between species.”

Commenting on this new theory and the apparently sudden extinction of the dinosaurs, one science writer admits: “They could shake the foundations of evolutionary biology and call into question the current concept of natural selection.”

University of Arizona scientist David Jablonski concludes that ‘for many plants and animals, extinction was abrupt and somehow special. Mass extinctions are not merely the cumulative effects of gradual dyings. Something unusual happened.’ Their arrival was also abrupt. Scientific American observes: “The sudden appearance of both suborders of the pterosaurs without any obvious antecedents is fairly typical of the fossil record.” That is also the case with dinosaurs. Their relatively sudden appearance and disappearance contradicts the commonly accepted view of slow evolution.

2007-01-26 14:12:53 · answer #1 · answered by dfg q 2 · 0 0

After the flood, most of the dinosaurs died because of the changes in climate. Those that lived, were killed by advancing civilization. There's lots of legends about knights killing dragons. And dragons of the East? Dinosaurs lived with man, created on day 6 of creation week.

2007-01-26 22:20:38 · answer #2 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 0 0

Men and dinosaurs never lived together- there's like a 40 million year difference between the two.

2007-01-26 22:16:03 · answer #3 · answered by pinwheelbandit 5 · 0 0

Dinosaurs disappeared around 65-plus Million years ago! Get my drift? And don't be misled, the animals Noah took on the ark were NOT dinosaurs.

2007-01-26 22:11:46 · answer #4 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 1 0

afyer the flood of Noah, about 1600 years later, the ecology was no longer condusive to long ages or large creatures

the dinosaurs did not flourish after the flood of Noah, to the extent they did before and are gone or maybe a few species left somewhere but virually gone or gone

2007-01-26 22:13:25 · answer #5 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0 0

About 5900-6000 years ago they rebelled against the rule of man. For that we fought them viciously and drove them underground where we find their fossils to this very day.

Actually the Earth is much older than that, and the truth of the dinosaurs extinction would sound just as ridiculous as the story I just told you.

2007-01-26 22:11:05 · answer #6 · answered by Atlas 6 · 0 0

The two never met.
Dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, The The oldest known fossil of modern humans, dates back 160,000 years. It is believed that Homo Habilis (the first sort of human) was around about 2 million years ago.

2007-01-26 22:18:06 · answer #7 · answered by Gordon M 3 · 1 0

Goodness man read the other answer to this question asked weeks ago.... Jim

2007-01-26 22:12:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

We shot them all and ate them. Ever watch "The Flintstones"? We sent them the way of the carrier pigeon.

2007-01-26 22:13:09 · answer #9 · answered by sluttyfawne 1 · 3 0

Genesis 6:13, And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die. But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”
Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

2007-01-26 22:11:37 · answer #10 · answered by oh nedla 2 · 0 1

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