Why were dinosaurs the only species that became extinct as a result of some cataclysmic event?

Question

Why not certain other animal species? Why not man? Man walked with the dinosaurs and yet man has somehow survived exctinction?

eddie - You and I have too much in common. It's kinda scary!

Chris W - I am indeed a creationist and you're right... most of what you say is gibberish to me. There is evidence of man walking with dinosaurs. In the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, TX there are human footprints next to dinosaur footprints dated at the same time. Look it up.

Answer 1

Most were drowned in Noah's flood and the ones they kept in the ark---probably baby ones--- could not cope with the changing world climate conditions after the flood. Still may be some around yet in swamps and remote area's...Loch Ness and Lake Champlain are a couple sightings spots. Biblical names for them were dragons and leviathon and behemoth....Chinese Emperor's had official "Dragon Keepers" and plenty of stories about dragon slaying with descriptions----American Indian legends speak of a "Thunderbird" that carried off animals and people or children---could have been a pteradactyl type bird.....fascinating stuff.
http://www.livingdinos.com/

Answer 2

First of all, man did NOT walk with the dinosaurs. Second, why are you assuming that other animals did not become extinct? They did. When that asteroid hit it caused an environmental cataclysm. First, there was all that dirt thrown into the atmosphere. Then came the fires, global fires that wiped out a lot of the plants and animals. The carbon cycle was thrown out of whack for thousands of years. Lots of things that survived the initial blast died because of the climate change. But life is persistent! We are the proof.

Answer 3

There have been at least 5 major extinction events over the last billion years, wiping out up to 90% of the world's species each time. These have been associated with comet impacts and atmospheric oxygen levels amongst other things. Man never walked with dinosaurs, the world was not created in 4004BC and fossils were not planted in the soil by God to get us guessing.

This does not necessarily mean I don't believe in God btw

Chris W - I agree with you with your creationist comment

Answer 4

Many species have died in mass extinctions. They occur annually every 100 million years or so. Its estimated that 99.9% of all lifeforms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct.

MAN DID NOT WALK WITH THE DINOSAURS. The ancestors of humanity were shrew like creatures, 65 million years ago. It was because of this humble nature was why we survived.

Humanity DID nearly become extinct at one point. 70,000 years ago, there is evidence that the Toba Supervolcano erupted. A population bottleneck at this period indicates that as few as 2000 humans survived this cataclysm out of a possible million or so. Those were our ancestors.

You're not a creationist by any chance? If you are, then I doubt what I said will make a blind bit of difference with you.

Answer 5

Other species have definitely been killed off by cataclysmic events, not just dinosaurs.

And "man" was not around when the dinosaurs became extinct. And no I don't believe that there were any dinosaurs on Noah's ark.

Answer 6

Man did not walk with dinos...Paluxy was fairly well documented hoax.
http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC101.html

The extinction of the dinosours occurred simultaneously with an estimated 70% of all life on Earth.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/wld/graphics/earths_timeline_dw.htm

Read the talkorgins.org webpages if you want reactions to all creationist/intelligent design references. Maybe you should follow your own advice and look it up.

Answer 7

They were just a portion of the species that went extinct

Answer 8

Blame Bush!!! Aaaaa! I keep doing that!
Global Warming killed the dinosaurs. Didn't you know they drove SUV's and the amount of carbon spewed out by the planet killers caused the world to catch on fire! Didn't you know that ANIMAL? lol!