Evolutionists - Someone stated -?

Question

This is somewhat a zoology question but not entirely.
Someone stated that most of the animals we see today, were around at the same time as the dinosaurs (this guy is a hard core evolutionist) and in their highly devoloped end of the line present forms, and somehow they managed to escape extinction. Tell me, how do you explain this.
To me, and I am a creationist, this just screams, GOD MADE ALL THE ANIMALS FULLY DEVELOPED with no need to evolve further, at the same time, and that the dinosaurs then lived with people are while they are somewhat extinct and someone very rare they lived with people (much like the flinstones) and were on the arc. How does evolution explain this? He said this based on lots of evidence he has found and seen. (Book - Investigating the Unexplained)

I stated my source, it was in a book called investigating the unexplained.
And email me for my opinion of the arc or anything else, I'm not getting into that in this question.

The statement was based on fossils found in the layer that dino's are found.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what he meant by that, but I'm sure he had a good reason to come to that conclusion. He didn't just pull it out of his ***, ya know. I'll have to look into that.

Answer 2

I can only guess that the person meant to say the ancestors of modern mammals were around at the time of the dinosaurs. We used to think that mammals were very rare, tiny, and not very much like modern mammals at the time of the dinosaurs; and that the mammals radiated and speciated heavily when the dinosaurs became extinct. There has been a couple of high-profile recent studies that suggest that the first mammals perhaps evolved 20 my earlier than we thought and were more common that generally thought. This suggests that mammals may have been expanding and speciating rapidly before the dinosaurs went extinct.

I can only guess the person read something along these lines and became confused. The mammalian fauna of North America (for example) was very, very different than it is now just 20,000 years ago - much less 100 million. The modern versions of mammals were not around when the dinosaurs were extant.

Answer 3

How do I explain it? Simple. This person hasn't got a clue. Go down to the museum and look for the room showcasing ancient mammals. It should be near the dinosaurs. You'll see animals that haven't been around for tens or hundreds of thousands of years or more. Most of the species on the planet today are quite different than anything that lived with the dinosaurs. Now, perhaps what he meant was that there are some animals, such as crocodiles, that have been virtually unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. Nobody with a modicum of study will say that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time.

Answer 4

Are you sure this guy wasn't saying that the precursors, the ancestors, of today's animals were around in dino days - up to 65 million years ago?

That's true, of course. Those animals that survived the C/T boundary extinction event went on to evolve into all the critters we see around us. Even some small, agile dinosaurs survived to become today's birds.

The C/T event - which may have been the giant asteroid impact at Chicxulub - had its greatest toll on large animals, especially the big dinos. Small ones, including the mouse-like animals that we descended from, were more able to find food in the devastated landscape and many years of deep winter that followed.

This is probably too rational for you, though, so you just stick with Genesis.

CD

Answer 5

Jessky, the friend of yours who said that is completely and entirely wrong. Most of the animals here today evolved over time way after the mass-extinction of the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs went extinct because they were too large after the (best theory is meteor) fell on earth, changing the environment. The smaller animals, mammals, a lot of fish, a few reptiles and most insects were not as effected.

Answer 6

Well, we know that species weren't created in their current form, and that dinosaurs didn't exist at the same time as humans. that isn't up for debate, at least not a scientific debate.

Most animals we see today weren't around at the time of the dinosaurs. What that guy was probably trying to say is that animals we see today evolved form animals that were alive at the time of the dinosaurs and survived when they went extinct.

When the dinosaurs went extinct, it was because of catastrophic events, like meteors and volcanoes. Some species (especially mammals) were suited to better survive these events, and thus didn't die off.

Answer 7

Well whoever said that was a complete idiot. There were only very small mammals, nothing like what is alive today. You will not find a primate in a Jurassic layer. You will not find a dog, a horse, an elephant, a giraffe, a whale, or much of anything else. You will find a few turtles and crocodiles that are fairly similar, but there are even notable differences.

Answer 8

I know small rodents haven't changed much, and neither have sharks or crocodiles from their ancestors, apart from getting considerably smaller. That just shows that some species have adapted very well through evolution. We have an appendix, a leftover from our ancestors that we don't use why would God have given us that?

I can't believe you mentioned the Flinstones either. I know about creationism, I suggest you learn about evolution and then you can make proper assumptions.

Answer 9

Well, as a Creationists, you already believe in Micro-Evolution since the Arc only contained samples of two of each kind of animal and not ALL the diversity we have now.

So that means that neither Creationists nor "Evolutionists" believe that animals were the same in the past (or before the flood) as they are now.

I do not know who this guy is, but he was neither.

Answer 10

Huh? So you think all the trillions of lifeforms from past to present co-existed? Okay then..that means there wouldn't be enough room on earth for every animal, plant and bacteria to survive. There's billions of fossils which only represent a tiny proportion of all the lifeforms that actually existed. And you think all the these lifeforms from the Precambrian to now represented by these fossils lived together. Why isn't there any human fossils buried in the cretaceous, triassic and jurassic geologic strata? How come that human fossils are only seen in the top layer of the geologic column representing roughly only the past 200,000 years?

You really need to study the natural history of the earth to see how ludicrous your question is.

Answer 11

Very few of the animals we know today were around at the time of the dinosaurs, there were very few mammals or birds,they developed later.Those that are still here are mostly aquatic animals that are well suited to their environment and have no need to change. IE: sharks,crocodiles and squid.