if dinosaurs where still alive would they rule the earth?

Answer 1

From movies like Jurassic Park, many people think that all the dinosaurs were enormous, invincible killing machines—humans are just too small, dumb, and weak to have lived during the time of the dinosaurs.

The truth is, humans live in a world that is still home to many incredible, large, and intimidating creatures. Large reptiles like the Komodo Dragon, anacondas, alligators, and crocodiles don’t keep man from flourishing on the earth.

Elephants can get up to 11 tons (22,000 lbs). An elephant can kill a man by stepping on him with one foot or by striking him with his powerful trunk. Yet, we have no problem taming these animals or even training them to do tricks in the circus. If man can work, play, and even go to battle on an elephant, why couldn’t man do similar things with certain dinosaurs. Yes, some of the sauropod dinosaurs grew four times larger than an elephant, but most dinosaurs were smaller than an elephant.

Killer whales (Orcas), are one of the oceans’ fiercest predators. They eat hundreds of thousands of pounds of mammal and fish meat every year. Seals, sea lions, walruses, otters, polar bears, and even moose have all been found in the stomachs of these creatures. But these are captured, tamed, and trained to do tricks.

If humans today can manipulate animals that are over 100 times their own size, why is it so difficult to believe that humans and dinosaurs once inhabited the earth at the same time?

Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

When man and large animals get together, whose in trouble? Blue whales get much larger than any of the dinosaurs, and it’s the blue whale that has nearly been hunted to extinction in the past.

A lot of people get their ideas about how animals behaved from Hollywood fiction. But is Hollywood trying to tell and accurate story or an entertaining story? Now think if the dinosaurs had survived today, but the elephant had gone extinct. They might have made a movie like Jurassic Park about elephants. You see, if we didn’t know how elephants behaved, they might have been perceived as monsters. The movie might portray them running around stabbing people with their tusks. Because what else would tusks be used for except for stabbing prey? They were sharp and pointy. Well no—elephants are gentle animals; now you don’t want to make one mad, but they are not monsters, they are just animals that God created for our enjoyment. Dinosaurs are the same; they are not monsters, but just animals God created.

As Dr. Jason Lisle has said, “You can’t tell the behavior of an animal by its bones any more than you could tell the behavior of me from my bones. You can make a guess, but that’s all it is.”

Answer 2

If dinosaur does exist and still alive, I think Apes were all killed by these creatures long long time ago before these Apes can developed into Human kind and technology.

But this doesn't mean dinosaurs can rule the world because they're not potential enough. BIG doesn't mean Rule. In ocean, whales and sharks are big and fierce, but can they rule the ocean? No, they can't, They just share the whole medium with other small species.

Answer 3

You are asking several different questions. Would mammals have had the opportunity to evolve if dinosaurs had not gone extinct? Not likely, but not impossible either. Two often overlooked facts in THAT debate,, are that in the 5, 10, 20 million years IMMEDIATELY after that extinction, well although mammals were larger, more abundant and had more variety than in the Dinosaur era,, a large chunk of the ecosystem, even/especially the very top of the food chain, was occupied,, by reptiles and birds (big raptor birds, some of whom were flightless and the next best thing to a T-rex, big reptiles like Titanoboa, and crocodiles who took to full-time land life). Gradually, the mammals claimed more and more sway in the ecosystem, helped by events like the drying, cooling, becoming the 4-seasons having world we know, but it wasn't as clear cut or immediate as we often think. Considering the fact that dinosaurs are basically halfway between reptiles and birds, it could be said that if the asteroid had not hit, they may have still held sway, until the world started to become cold like we know it, at which time the mammals may have arisen (two of the hottest times on Earth were the Eocene, start of the mammal era, and the MidJurassic). The other neglected fact is that,, during the Dinosaur Era,,, the polar regions, while not as cold as today, were still the coldest place on Earth (British Columbia is a good comparison),, , , and while the mammals were not as large and plentiful as our era, they were still nevertheless at their most abundant and large in the cold regions (and the dinosaurs were at their smallest there). In a nutshell, if dinosaurs had NOT gone extinct, they would have continued to rule the world again, or at least, the world that came to exist/existed immediately AFTER the impact. Read "The call of distant mammoths" the first few chapters at least, to understand Earth life, everywhere up until a few thousand years ago. There is much gray area in answering your question, much all-of-the-above, and much that would be easier to explain, if society weren't single-mindedly obsessed with dinosaurs (at the expense of all other prehistoric life) and would gain some perspective, by among other things, reading the prehistoric life literature, of say, 1920, 1880 (the dinosaur obsession didn't start until the 1960's). The whole dinosaur body plan was so successful, other lifeforms sometimes "copied" it, like the giant armadillos that look like ankylosaurs, so sometimes, the remains of THOSE creatures are found and mistaken for dinosaurs, and caused some of the examples dino-holdouts have heard of/used. A documented, proven case of such, were, as mentioned before, various Australian LAND crocodiles from the Tertiary whose teeth (and heads) were virtually identical to raptor dinosaurs (others took to the ocean on a full-time Orcalike basis instead of dominating the land, but either way). Alas, those crocodiles, and, to my knowledge, all other Pseudodinosaurs, are ALSO extinct. As I said, in a nutshell, if dinosaurs had NOT gone extinct, they would have taken over the world again, or at least, the world that came to exist/existed immediately AFTER the impact. We can say with reasonable certainty that they did, because in the K-T aftermath we see iguanas the size of men, NOT Iguanadons.It would be wise to learn all you can about the life, all life, from AFTER the dinosaurs but before us, and a good deal more about what came before dinosaurs,,, . Finally, we don't know all the details, but for several million years BEFORE the dinosaurs became extinct, they were declining in species number, for reasons we are still sorting out. It is certainly possible that, if the dinosaurs had not died fairly immediately, they may have GRADUALLY gone extinct from whatever was slowly trimming them back. Also, at the time (though we can't be sure it was one of the factors declining the dinosaurs), the world WAS becoming colder, more seasonal, a trend temporarily reversed by the Impact, but which returned.

Answer 4

If dinosaurs were to appear now, with humans at this stage of evolution, then no, as we would deal with them in the same way as we have dealt with mammoths and other large species native to the earth - intelligence beats strength any time, and their skin would probably be a prized possession. However, if that asteroid had never hit, then dinosaurs (unless they had killed each other off) would still be in charge, as mammals would never have reached this stage of evolution.

Answer 5

Yes. When you look at Cenozoic epochs, it wasn't until the Eocene, about 60 million years ago, that mammals realized the dinosaurs were gone for good. Mammals started growing to immense sizes, something that would not have occurred if the dinosaurs were still extant during the Cenozoic.

Answer 6

No they would be killed off pretty quickly.
In fact that is likely what did for them in any case.
There are many folk tales of dinosaurs (aka dragons) being killed by heroes of old. For example St George, and Beowolf, who made a career of killing them!

Incidentally the idea that the died out millions of years ago is silly. There are many written accounts of dinosaurs/dragons, and many depictions. The Romans even made mosaics of them.
http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/ancient/ancient.htm

Furthermore dinosaur bones have been found containing red blood cells - not 65 million years old!
http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/creationontheweb?q=dino+blood&hl=en&lr=

Answer 7

Heck yes they would!! The planet would be green and filled with vegatation and meat. Humans! Humans would be a food sorce , and we humans would most likely still live in caves. We would have elvolved as we are today in posture. But we would live as meek as any animal knowing that the Dinosaurs are the masters of the earth.

Answer 8

Evolution has taught us that big size is a liability, not an asset.
An ability to survive on a varied, low calorie diet and resourcefulness always prevails.
So no, dinosaurs would have not ruled. If the dinos had not died off when they did, our ancestors would have taken a little longer to evolve, sure, but eventually, we would've won somewhere along the line.

Answer 9

Quite probably. Seeing that we have little control over Lions / Sharks and other animals in the wild nowadays, i think we've have a very hard job controlling a load of 50ft high carnivores!!

We may have a flippin great diplodocus as a pet, but that would be quite mental! We're a bit too small to be throwing our weight around where flesh eating lizards are concerned!!

Answer 10

Birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs. By some schools of thought the dinosaurs never died out.
Anyhow, if you look at Christmas and Thanksgiving (turkeys!) and KFC I would have to say that dinosaurs have been overruled.