Could the great flood mentioned in the Bible have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.?

Question

The Bible mentions of a great flood and great destruction world over. Could that have been a possibility as opposed to a meteroid being the suspected cause of the extinction of dinosaurs. Most of the fossils have been burried under mud, and something like a flood could have caused that to happen.

Answer 1

The only way to make a fossil is for it to get buried very quickly where scavengers can’t find it and oxygen can’t get to it. It also takes the right amount of water and the right kinds of minerals to be buried in. If this happens correctly, you just might get an imprint or some bones or bone fragments that become mineral rock.

Because fossilization usually requires large quantities of water, many scientists are starting to think that local flash floods caused them. Creationists of course believe they are better explained by Noah’s worldwide flood. There is all kinds of proof that extreme flooding causes layers of sediment like we find in the “geologic column.” We can see it in real life and reproduce it with flume experiments.

Many and probably most of the fossils we find today were laid down in the Flood. Most of the fossil record is the graveyard of the flood. As it has been said, “If Noah’s flood really did occur, what would you expect to find? Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water, all over the earth.” And guess what we find? Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water, all over the earth.

Let’s think for a second—it takes a lot of sediment to cover a huge dinosaur. And dinosaurs fossils are often found in large bone-beds or dinosaur graveyards, where many dinosaur bones are packed together in a chaotic jumble. These are found in places through the whole world. The existence and characteristics of dinosaur graveyards provides strong support for the Genesis Flood. The evolutionists of course have to say these happened in catastrophic local floods.

On top of that, many Creationists believe the 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 (which would explain the high iridium content in some layers).

Look at Gen. 6:18-20 about Noah and the animals. It doesn’t say two of every kind except dinosaurs. Now, keep in mind that God brought the animals to Noah; it says they will “come to you”; he didn’t have to go out and catch them.

The response that often comes from the skeptic is: “Noah couldn’t have fit all those animals in the ark—especially the dinosaurs!” And you ask them, “How many animals had to go in the ark?” “I don’t know.” “Well, how big was the ark?” “I don’t know.” So, you don’t believe an unknown amount of animals could have fit in an unknown sized ark?

First of all, Gen. 6:20 states that representative kinds of birds and land animals boarded the Ark, not all the different species and subspecies. People say, “But there were over 600 names for dinosaurs.” Yes, and there are many names for the different types of dogs in the world, but all the dog “species” came from only one original dog kind—one Genesis kind. There were many different Ceratopsia dinosaurs that probably all came from one Genesis kind. Many creationists believe there were fewer than 50 distinct kinds of dinosaurs that had to be on the Ark.

Second, you also need to remember that the ark didn’t look like those cutesy Sunday School pictures. The ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall (and that’s using a small cubit measurement; it could have been quite a bit larger). The space in the ark would have held more than 520 modern railroad boxcars, and I’ve read that shippers allocate up to 250 sheep per boxcar when moving them by train.

Third, not all dinosaurs were huge, many were as small as chickens. Some scientists say the average size of the dinosaurs was about that of a sheep or a small pony. Very few of the dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes.

And fourth, who says that he took full grown dinosaurs on board? It would be foolish to fill up space on the ark with the oldest, biggest adults. The largest fossil dinosaur eggs found are about the size of a football. Reptiles normally grow till the day they die so the enormous dinosaurs were probably just very old. Would God want to use senior citizens to populate the new world? Their main purpose was to reproduce after the flood. I don’t think there were old adults of any of the animals on the ark.

Oh, and by the way, the Bible does mention dinosaurs. Read Job 40:15-24; Job 41; Isaiah 30:6; etc.

If dinosaurs got on the ark, then dinosaurs got off the ark. That being the case, you would expect to find legends of dinosaurs in history. Why don’t we read stories about men fighting dinosaurs or dinosaurs eating people’s cows and stuff like that? Well, most people are unaware that the word “dinosaur” was not coined until the 1840s by Sir. Richard Owen (who was a Creationist by the way). So, if these creatures lived alongside humans prior to that time, they were not called dinosaurs. So what were they called? Dragons. Most cultures throughout the world possess ancient stories about dragons and sea monsters that closely resemble what we today would call dinosaurs. For instance, the flag of Wales depicts a dragon, which by the way, is claimed by some to be the oldest national flag still in use. Dragon stories have been handed down for generations in most civilizations. No doubt many of these stories have been exaggerated through the years, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have their original basis in fact. I believe many of the dragon legends are simply distorted versions of dinosaur encounters.

Answer 2

No. Since the infancy of the science of geology, it has been abundantly clear such a global flood never took place since before complex life evolved. In the 208 years since William Smith published his geologic map of the Bath area, nothing has been found to suggest otherwise.

The Bible is not meant to be used as a scientific source, and using it to interpret geology because it has a story about a flood is as much of a misuse of that book as it would be to use it for genetic studies because it mentions breeding animals.

I said "No", but I suppose it is as possible as it would be that the giant turtle who brought mud up from the bottom of the water to create the world killed them. I'll stick with the standard explanations of geology howerever, because it's the ONLY explanation that has any support whatsoever beyond what some ancient and primtive religious tales hint at. There are many of those, and all have equal evidence to support them.

Answer 3

prob not.
for one thing the dinosaurs died out long long long long long before written language, other wise we would prob have some writen accounts of some kind of dinosaur animals on the arc, or some would would have been ridding t_Rexes in battle instead of elephants.
and for another thing there is no evidence that the whole world was plunged underwater at the same time at least not since people have been here. there has been evidence that some parts of the world were plauged with massve floods but not all at once.
in fact some people think that the biblical flood was the caspian sea swelling up for a time.

Answer 4

The dinosaurs died off 60 million years ago. Their bone have turned to stone. That could not happen if they died in a flood only 4 thousand years ago.

Answer 5

No. I don't recall dinosaurs being mentioned in the Bible. If they had been around, then Noah would have taken 2 on board the ark and we would still have dinosaurs today.

Answer 6

No, the dinosaurs went belly up up 65,000,000 years ago. If the flood happened, it was 6 or 7 thousand years ago.

Answer 7

Nope. Wrong time, and the Great Flood wasn't worldwide as claimed. It didn't even exterminate the kangaroos.

Answer 8

Welcome to the state of American education. Congratulations government (specifically the GOP), you've succeeded in creating the society of thoughtless zombies that you've always wanted to ensure your continuing corporate reign.

I can't believe how many people don't even want to really understand what is going on. It's like they figured out how to turn off the curiosity gene and started sticking it in fruit roll-ups.

Answer 9

no extinctions in Noah's flood except for the unicorn. a mythical beast can only die in a mythical flood.

Answer 10

Maybe..... but I don't remember the Bible mentioning any dinosaurs....