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We should thank God that swept them out to make room for us

2007-03-14 05:26:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Evolutionists say the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. How? Well, I’ve read that there are over 50 different theories. Let me just list a few:
-Mammals eating dinosaur eggs.
-New narcotic plants evolving.
-Global cooling/global warming.
-Loss of plants causing herbivores to starve which in turn caused the carnivores to starve.
-A supernova exploded nearby, spraying the earth with radiation.
-A passing comet poisoned the earth with chemicals.
-One of the current favorites is the “deep impact” theory proposed by the geologist Walter Alvarez in about 1980. This theory states that a meteor strike caused dramatic climate changes much like a “nuclear winter” which supposedly caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other animals. His evidence was his discovery of an alleged world-wide layer of clay with a high iridium content, which is found in meteorites.

Well, there are plenty of papers that talk about the problems with the "deep impact" theory. One, is that the earth’s core also has iridium in it that can be brought up by volcanos. Many Creationists believe Noah's Flood would have caused the greatest volcanoes that there have ever been, and some believe God pelted the earth with meteors during the Flood as well.

Many evolutionists though, don’t think dinosaurs are extinct anyway. The entrance to the bird exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio had a sign that said: “Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago—or did they? No, birds are essentially modern short-tailed feathered dinosaurs.”

First of all, bird evolution is one of the most controversial areas in evolutionary paleontology and evolutionists often disagree and criticize each other. We hear a lot of reports of feathered dinosaurs being found, but what you rarely hear, is that the main candidates are believed by many experts to simply be frayed collagen fibers, or hair like structures that could have supported a frill or crest like those on iguanas, or are on animals that are not dinosaurs, but flightless birds. The drawings are certainly not what we find; they are just the artists’ imagination. Dr. Alan Feduccia, a world authority on birds and an evolutionist, along with his coworkers have presented a substantial body of evidence to support their view that there are, in fact, no known dinosaurs with feathers (they believe birds evolved from different reptiles, but not dinosaurs). And then you have ones like Archaeoraptor that was proven to be a hoax. Who knows how many times that will happen. All these announcements of feathered dinosaurs cause a lot of media fanfare, but when they are refuted, there is scarcely a whimper in the media.

You may be thinking, “But what about Archaeopteryx? That has been used for years and years.” Archaeopteryx was a true perching bird with fully formed wings and flight feathers, as well as a large wishbone for the attachment of muscles used for the downstroke of the wings. So what is all the fuss about; why is Archaeopteryx such an icon of evolution? Well, it had teeth in the bill, claws on the wings, no keel on the breast bone, an unfused backbone, and a long, bony tail, which are all characteristics most people associate with reptiles. But as Dr. Gary Parker said, “...the reptile-like features are not really as reptile-like as you might suppose. The familiar ostrich, for example, has claws on its wings that are even more ‘reptile-like’ than those of Archaeopteryx. Several birds, such as the hoatzin, don’t have much of a keel. The penguin has unfused backbones and a bony tail. No living birds have socketed teeth, but some fossil birds do. Besides, some reptiles have teeth and some don’t, so the presence or absence of teeth is not particularly important in distinguishing the two groups.” Dr. Alan Feduccia (like I said, an evolutionist, and by the way, one who doesn’t like creationists quoting him) said, “Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that.” On top of that, scientists have found fossils of what they would call “true birds” in layers of rock that they date as being older than Archaeopteryx. That presents a problem for them. I believe Archaeopteryx was something of a mosaic like a bat or platypus. Similar structures can simply point to a common designer. What they need to find, is a fossil showing scales turning into feathers, or a leg turning into a wing, or the reptile lung turning into the avian lung. How you can take a “two-way” reptile lung and evolve it into a fully functional “one-way” bird lung without causing extinction of the species is quite a conundrum.

There is no credible evidence that dinosaurs evolved into birds. Dinosaurs have always been dinosaurs and birds have always been birds. So why did they die off? Well, many Creationists believe the Flood would have drastically changed the climate of the earth (cooler temperatures, more radiation, etc.), and that there was a short ice age after the flood. Some Creationists think the dinosaurs that survived the flood where not able to cope so well in the new environment.

Another possibility is that dinosaurs may have become extinct for the same reason that many animals become extinct today. Why do we have endangered species programs? Extinction is the rule. Why? People killing them, lack of food, man destroying the environment, catastrophes, disease, genetic problems, and so on. I’ve read that in the last 350 years, about 400 species have disappeared, and some say the number is much greater. Countries all over the world have stories of dragon slayers. Perhaps man killed them for food, sport, or because they were a nuisance. I think we just didn’t start our endangered species programs early enough.

2007-03-17 10:54:03 · answer #1 · answered by Questioner 7 · 0 0

Technically, dinosaurs didn't disappear--their avian descendants are still with us today.
All of the non-avian dinosaurs are believed to have been wiped out by a 6 mile wide meteor striking the earth, 65 million years ago, at what is the present day Yucantan Pennisula.

2007-03-16 17:19:08 · answer #2 · answered by pseudoangel80 1 · 0 0

there are those who say they haven't they are still here but know there are called birds. Dinosaurs were not reptiles they were warm blooded and many had a wish bone as do birds. The idea of a asteroid collision wiping out the dinosaurs is a theory that is starting to lose favour we are learning more each day and the picture is changing.

2007-03-14 05:37:43 · answer #3 · answered by jack lewis 6 · 0 0

Many disappeared because climatic changes favoured smaller warm blooded creatures over large cold blooded lizards. I'm not totally convinced by the mass extinction theory and instead I favour the idea that they gradually declined through time due to their inability to adapt to a changing environment.

2007-03-14 05:30:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

sure. Bowie is the lord-grasp of the universe. Dinosaurs have been too freaked to compete with him, so as that they died out to be polite. Or the crotch factor, it ought to truly pass the two way.

2016-12-14 18:57:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

well, they disappeared because a big comet hit the earth, raising dust, blocking out the sun, making the earth really cold, killing the dinosaurs. supposedly lol. could be true. and yes, we should thank God.

2007-03-14 05:29:57 · answer #6 · answered by rt1290 6 · 0 2

The theory of the increasing of the earth's gravity


http://www.geocities.com/ramin1102000/chap3-1page.html

2007-03-16 09:36:58 · answer #7 · answered by ramin mardfar 1 · 0 0

They got pwned by a big meteor.

2007-03-14 05:31:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Dinosaurs simply hunted and ate each other until they became extinct.

2007-03-14 05:29:40 · answer #9 · answered by mreed316 7 · 0 2

Jesus got a little pissed, though. He was having so much fun riding around on Archaeopteryx.

2007-03-14 05:29:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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