Are dinosaurs really really evil

[sephodwyrm]

OK. This is dedicated to my avatar.
Why did all the big dinosaurs as well as big mammals all have to go extinct?

I have heard that some Christian preachers say that the dinosaurs were not saved by Noah's Ark because..."they were evil"...

[Gaidin]

65,000,000 years ago a friggin' huge rock hit the earth near the Yucatan Peninsula. World went dark and cold, and a helluva lot of organisms on the world(including bacteria) died.

[Pnutmaster]

I believe he wants to know how fundamentalist Christians rationalize the extinction of the Dinosaurs (considering they believe man coexisted with Dinosaurs...le sigh).

Even if he somehow missed the 'asteroid' explanation in grammar school, his post would have been directed to the Athenaeum

Perhaps they reason that the expansion of man consumed resources and the Dinosaurs were dealt the death blow by a shrinking environment O_o?

[Gaidin]

Perhaps they reason that the expansion of man consumed resources and the Dinosaurs were dealt the death blow by a shrinking environment O_o?

Well, when man evolved, there wasn't exactly a fight for the top of the food chain once inventiveness came to bear.

[Lasher]

65,000,000 years ago a friggin' huge rock hit the earth near the Yucatan Peninsula. World went dark and cold, and a helluva lot of organisms on the world(including bacteria) died.

What that's crazy. Every Christian knows the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.

[Yosemite]

It's a conspiracy

[Orca]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if God really did kill all the evil ones? What a nice world it would be.

[Da Skinna]

Jesus and Moses killed them with guns. Simple as that.

[Banned]

Jesus and Moses killed them with guns. Simple as that.

Now that's a bad humor Try not including religion in the whole matter.

[KALI]

Yes dinosaurs are evil
the devil created them and god turned them all into stone to stop them eating us................

[Banned]

Are dinosaurs really really evil

Are they present still in this world????

[Gaidin]

Are they present still in this world????

Do crocodiles count?

[MaximiIian]

Do crocodiles count?

No.
But, birds count as dinosaurs. Modern biologists considered birds to be Archosaurs, the same infraclass as dinosaurs; and, since birds are the direct evolution of smaller dinosaurs which survived the immediate impact.

But, the thread question raises a good point: how do they rationalize that?

[Denny Crane!]

No.
But, birds count as dinosaurs. Modern biologists considered birds to be Archosaurs, the same infraclass as dinosaurs; and, since birds are the direct evolution of smaller dinosaurs which survived the immediate impact.

But, the thread question raises a good point: how do they rationalize that?

When their extinct species and stem group are examined, crocodylians prove to have been a very diverse and adaptive group of reptiles. Not only are an ancient group of animals, at least as old as the dinosaurs, they also evolved into a great variety of forms. The earliest forms, the Sphenosuchians, evolved during the Late Triassic, and were highly gracile terrestrial forms built like greyhounds. Several terrestrial species during the Cretaceous evolved herbivory, such as Simosuchus clarki and Chimaerasuchus paradoxus. During the Jurassic and the Cretaceous marine forms in the family Metriorhynchidae such as Metriorhynchus evolved forelimbs that were paddle-like and had a tail similar to modern fish. Dakosaurus andiniensis a closely related species to Metriorhynchus had a skull that was adapted to eat large marine reptiles.

Wikipedia owns them all

Gaidin it is uncertain whether or not it was an asteroid so I wouldn't lay that out there like proof.

PEter

[Gaidin]

Gaidin it is uncertain whether or not it was an asteroid so I wouldn't lay that out there like proof.

PEter

It doesn't really matter what hit the earth. All that really matters is there is imaging that suggests something friggin huge hit the earth in said region.

Source for information on crater itself.

Images of crater.

What it led to.

[Silver Guard]

Oh no no no, thats just silly!
You see, God created the fossils when he created the world, as they are seen today. Just like the Grand Canyon. He did so to foster doubt in his followers...to test them...so they go to hell...wait...oh no! It must be because...he dosn't like followers?
Right, seems like fundementalists don't make any sense, big news for anyone?

[DarkKnight]

Because God caught them looking at gay porn.

[Miraj]

Because God caught them looking at gay porn.

Why this made me laugh out loud I really don't know, but it did.

[MaximiIian]

Oh, I'm not denying that crocodilians are very adaptable creatures. After all, they are the closest living relatives to birds, and are the second of only two extant groups of archosaurs (the other being bird themselves).

[boofhead]

Well that Asian-anime triceratops-looking avatar thingy looks pretty damned evil to me. It may give younger forum members nightmares.

And Sephodwyrm, I know you love to hear this: some Christians are fools who should stop giving the rest of us bad names.

Literalist dickheads.