Are dinosaur bones really thought to be millions of years old?

Question

The dino bones we have found. Do scientists actually believe that these bones survived millions or billions of years here on earth??

I wrote bones, not fossils. The bones we have found and reconstructed into dinos so we can see what they looked like.. BONES

Michael, Christians would say that the killer meteor caused the flood..

Christians would also debate that the radioactive decay rate has always been the same for all of these years.

Answer 1

You hit the answer---scientists BELIEVE that they are. There's no date stamp on them so it's only a guess and a bad one at that based on false premises. How is it that a T-Rex skeleton was found recently that still had soft tissue and blood vessels intact? After millions of years? Not a chance but they'll come up with some explanation that sounds good to them or just ignore the obvious, dinosaurs aren't that old. That's modern science for you...observation and reality mean nothing,.. only their belief system.

Answer 2

Just millions, not billions. It makes a difference.

Although we've found very many fossils, you have to remember that dinosaurs roamed the Earth for a good 100 million years or so. That's a long time. There were literally TRILLIONS of dinosaurs over that period. And of those trillions, we only find a handful of fossils that were lucky enough to be in the right place to survive to the present day.

We know this is true because it fits with a lot of other evidence in science. For example, when you dig into the ground, anywhere on the planet, eventually you run into a thin layer of Iridium. This global layer of Iridium is part of the proof of a huge meteor that killed all the dinosaurs, because Iridium is not naturally found on Earth.

Also, if you look at the Earth from space, you can see what's left of the crater from this killer meteor. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03379

I'd love to see the Bible-thumpers explain all that, btw...

Finally, we use a variety of dating methods that all agree with each other. Radioactive things decay at a specific rate -- meaning that every so often something that's radioactive will loose a bit of itself by giving off radiation. Some things decay very fast, whereas others decay over millions of years. For example, the following isotope-combinations decay over a very long time: rubidium/strontium, thorium/lead, potassium/argon, argon/argon, and uranium/lead.

For any one fossil or rock, different samples are sent to different labs for testing. Each lab (which competes with all the others) will test the isotopes. Different labs and different isotopes will still point to the same age within a few thousand years or so, at worst a few million. So we know these bones and the rocks around them are that old.

Again, I'd like to see the Bible-thumpers explain that. They usually have trouble concentrating for long enough to get to this point.

Answer 3

Dinosaurs lived from 232 million years ago to 65 million years ago. Those are not bones but fossils, which are bones turned into rock by a process known as permineralization. There are several different convergent lines of scientific evidence on the age of dinosaurs. There is no doubt in the scientific community.

Answer 4

Well it would be a bit hard to study bones that have not been found.

Well, their carbon dating and other ways of trying to figure out how old things are works for other things, like Egyptian artifacts and tissue samples, that we have other clues to the age to compare the technology with. So if it works for that, it may well be accurate for other things, no?

Besides, they also find fossil remains in open cliff sides, where there are obvious layers of dirt giving clues to what was happening during different times what clues to some animals that lived there then...

Answer 5

Okay, first let me say that I am a Christian and I do study theology. I also study a bit of science.

No. Dinosaur bones didn not survive because the organic material has been replaced by mineral.

Yes. They are millions of years old.

No. They are not billions of years old.

Besides reading the Bible, you need to read the history of how the Bible was put together and the theological arguments at the Nicene Council which actually decided on which books would be canonized.

You also need to look at the writings of the major theologians regarding God and science. Just look at the into to St. Luke edition of the Bible put out by the Catholic Church. You will note that the Church actually teaches that there are Historical, Prophetic, and Allegorical books in the Bible.

The Book of Genesis is an allegory which is used to teach a lesson, not science.

Answer 6

Dinosaur bones are fossilized, the calcium has been replaced with other minerals and have retained the shape of the original bones. And most dino bones are 65 million years old to 150 million years old.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Yes, dear, they do, in a sense. What happened was that minerals leached into the bones and replaced the calcium, forming a very good copy of the bones.

Answer 9

They are not bones. They are rocks that formed around bones and then other rocks that fill the gaps after the bones disintegrate. It takes a long time to make rocks Skippy.

And yes. They are at least 65 million years old.

Answer 10

No they don't 'believe' it.

Scientists have this silly thing called EVIDENCE that they get all excited about.

You could look up radiological dating and keep in mind that indeed, the bone itself is gone, what replace it is stone in the exact same shape as a result of petrification.

No dinosaurs were around billions of years ago. Maybe 300 million years ago, and until about 65 million years ago.