What is proof that Ummm... Dinosaurs really existed?

Question

Is it fossils or what? Now is it the Jurriassic or Tirassic, or Mezioc times that the asteriod wipedout ALL dinosaurs whoa re nowadays common bird species

Answer 1

Fossils!

Answer 2

Fossils, they all say! There is not one single bit of logic in the idea that dinosaurs existed. And there is no certain proof. Why are bones only found by scientists digging? Why did they not find bones until 1850? Where are all the overlapping creatures? A fish turned into a lizard which turned into a giant lizard which turned into a bird? Ok, so where are all the 100,000 of examples of the process, the subtle changes, the diversity? Show me how man changed 100,000 times from a monkey to a man. Are we still changing? Why do we still have monkeys? As for dinosaurs, why do we still have fish? Why did the dinosaurs get wipes out but sharks still swim in the ocean? Is it curious that dinosaur "science" began at the same time Western minds were searching for a new answer about creation, their scientific minds overlooking Biblical standard?

Answer 3

It's quite hard to prove that something existed historically that no longer exists today, without reference to reliable witness material - provided by say paper journals or a reference on an ancient monument or the discovery of a body preserved in ice. Even then, it remains open to debate - consider the Phoenix.

The dinosaur fossil itself is not a bone - it is the mineralised reminder of what the bone looked like - the bone would have long since turned to dust. Very rarely, you may find a bone which has been preserved in a glacier or in a peat bog. These cadavers can only provide so much forensic information - no one can say for certain how it got there in the first place.

These physical remains can be subjected to a number of tests. The most widely known being carbon dating (half-life of C14 = 5700 years - there are other elements which can be used in a similar way to determine the approximate age of older specimens)

C14 analysis is a radiometric process which compares the amount of carbon 14 (a naturally radioactive isotope of Carbon) with the presence of it's decay product. The higher the ratio of the decay product - the older the test subject will be. C14 has a relatively short half-life and so is used to date recently dead life forms which used carbon as a food (ie: animals) or building structure (ie: plants and trees).

The evidence provided by the radiometric dating is then supported by the estimated age of the glacier / mineral deposits where the body or bones have been found. Further tests which be used to narrow down the time period during which the organic material probably lived.

There is no absolute certainty - only theories - as we discover more dinosaur fossils / bones / bodies - the more support exists that can be used as the basis for saying that life on Earth, has existed for so many million years.

The range of bones found compared with the analysis of modern day animals leads to the opinion that modern-day birds and crocodiles have distinct similarities ONLY and POSSIBLE genetic links with ancient animals (not necessarily dinosaurs). If new evidence turns up that disputes the accepted findings - we all need make necessary changes to our theories

Scientists are notoriously sceptical of theories - just try to keep an open mind.

Answer 4

The process of turning bio waste into oil is a known process( discovered in the late 1940's) that takes about 2 weeks to complete. The oil companies do not want this technology to be used or known about so they bury it under tons of money. The cloning is currently being attempted with the frozen viable blood & tissue sample found a couple years ago in the artic/alaska area.( The blood, tissue, and bones cells are possibly viable) due to the fast drop in temperature which caused the instant freezing of these specimens. Which also shows that these creatures are not millions and millions of years old because they were frozen so quickly and completely that any tissue damage was minimal. Reptiles never stop growing; the ones found in fossil beds where by the measure of their great size would be a couple hundred or more years old.Their great size also doomed them during the flood which is why their remains are found together in debris fields. Their smaller short lived relatives are with us today.

Answer 5

lets see you got fossils of the animals themselves, then you got the footprints, and fossilized eggs, and such.
it also it was not just an asteroid that wiped them out, you also got the massive volcano, and the ice age, and a few other massive natural events. or did you forget them.
and the fact that they are linked to common birds is kinda true.

Answer 6

Maybe all their skeleton remands that are displayed in Museums around the world

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 7

Haven't you read reliable findings about skeletons of them in various states at least here in the U.S. and no doubt around the world? Museums have their bones put together on display-check it out-they are real bones,not plastic stuff man made.

Answer 8

Here, besides fossilized bones, eggs, and skin fragments look at this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth, copy paste that in your browser. Ever think evolution was god's plan all along, to make faith harder for those who choose to follow that doctrine? Buddha makes more sense to me.

Answer 9

You mean, except all the fossils and cave drawings that have been proven to be real?

Answer 10

Fossils. Footprints. Fossilised eggs. Take your pick.