How do you think the dinosaurs got destroyed?

Question

This is just your opinion. I'm a Christian, but it has to do with your beliefs, even evolution if that's what you believe.

Answer 1

Most of them suffered from environmental change caused by excess CO2 and sulfuric acid pollution emitted from the volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps region of India (which was a pollution event about a million times more significant than our current global warming "crisis"). The Coup-de-grace was administered by the Chicxulub meteor.

Answer 2

Evolutionists say the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. How? Well, 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 this 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. And why did the alleged impact kill off the dinosaurs while many other forms of life that you would expect to die remained healthy?

Plenty of 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.”

If you look at the popular evolutionists’ “dinosaur family tree” you will see that they say birds evolved from an ancestor of the theropod dinosaurs. But this dinosaur family tree does not present observed scientific fact. Rather, it presents assumptions, hypotheses and beliefs as if they are observed fact.

Now, one thing you have to realize is that 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.

I’m sorry to say, but many of the dinosaurs and maybe all of them are extinct today. So why did they die off?

Well, many Creationists believe Noah's 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. They also believe that is the reason why man’s life-span shortened so much after the flood, and why bugs and animals are so much smaller now.

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. Of course we are talking about species and not Genesis kinds.

Let’s think for a minute—countries all over the world have stories of dragon slayers. Perhaps they went extinct from man killing them for food, sport, or because they were a nuisance. I think we just didn’t start our endangered species programs early enough.

Another thing, is that there have been (even recently) reports of strange animals in the amazon and the congo that sound a lot like dinosaurs. And there are reports of giant flying reptiles in Indonesia, and so forth.

There are thousands of square miles of almost impenetrable swamps and thick jungle in the world. And natives in some of these places describe beasts that fit with what just might be dinosaurs. And what about all the sightings of lake monsters?

This is a field called cryptozoology—the search for hidden animals. There just might be a few dinosaurs left, teetering on the edge of extinction. We are constantly discovering new species of animals and plants in remote areas. A tree can’t run away and hide and yet the Wollemi pine tree avoided detection until just recently (said to have become extinct millions of years ago). An evolutionist has to say, “No way.” But a creationist has no problem with this and can say, “Maybe.”

Answer 3

a) Biodiversity among the dinosaurs had decreased near the end of the Cretaceous. We don't know why.
b) A whopping big meteorite hit the Earth off the coast of what is now Yucatan Mexico. This caused a "nuclear winter" scenario. It wasn't just the dinosaurs that died out. Half of everything was killed.

Answer 4

Oh for crying out loud! 65 million years ago, give or take, a meteor approximately 5 miles wide hit the Earth in the Yucatan. It wiped out almost all dinosaurs and most everything else.

Read a fukcing book!

Answer 5

Well, whatever happened, it's a darn shame. Noah went to a lot of work to built a boat big enough to house them for over 150 days, and saving them from the "great flood." It's odd that there is no mention of them in the bible. Maybe the "creation museum" has the answer.

Answer 6

The saddest thing is I read every answer and the correct one was at the bottom, an asteroid impact. We owe our existance to that event.

Answer 7

Dinosaur bones are actually leftover remnants of an alien picnic.

Answer 8

One theory is that they smoked themselves to death. Another is that some asteroids got them. I'm not sure that anyone really knows, but it has no bearing on my religious beliefs.

Answer 9

Aliens created the first home world invasion game with real live monsters. Bigger monsters; bigger bloody targets.

Answer 10

Probably that big-*ss meteor that struck earth and created floods and a huge dust cloud, etc.