Dinosaur Files

Dinosaurs?

Are dinosaurs extinct because Noah forgot to put them on the Arc? Or instead of forgetting maybe they were too big. I mean we still have Crocks and Aligators (they are dinosaurs) because Noah didn't have to take any water creatures with him and that is why they survived? http://www.gatorland.com/fun/modern_dinos.html

Public Comments

1. Dinosaurs were extinct for millions of years by the time Noah allegedly came along
2. I know some fundamentalist Christians who insist that Noah had dinosaurs ("eggs because full-grown dinosaurs would be too big") on the ark and that they still exist today on uncharted islands. They claim (to me, to my face, in person) that god has never allowed his creations to become extinct but instead has hidden them from man to protect them. I wish I was making this up. Thank goodness we have science to prove that completely and totally false. Scary to think that the woman who told me this was someone I looked up to as a child. Eeek.
3. Crocodiles and alligators are not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs (at least some of them) were warm-blooded. One fossil was found of a bird-like dinosaur incubating a clutch of eggs. The closest living relative to the dinosaurs are the birds. Most dinosaurs did not survive the meteor impact that ended the Cretaceous era. Noah's ark is a myth.
4. Please do some research before asking such an asinine question. Dinosaurs existed MILLIONS of years before humans did. They were extinct long before humans evolved. Noah's Arc just isn't feasible and isn't believable.
5. I'm waiting for a fundie to tell you that an Old Testament myth involving a hippo with a large penis is a "dinosaur".
6. 3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. From this point, God called Noah to build the ark. If it was not a creation of God's, it wasn't on the ark.
7. wow...i hope you are joking....
8. There is a lot of information available about this topic. Here's a good place to start: http://www.answersingenesis.org/search/?oload=yes&qt=flood Tom
9. It is physically impossible for a man to have gathered two of every animal on the planet the species are endless...and besides man didn't exist when dinos roamed so techniqully if Noah existed than he wouldn't of even known about Dinos.
10. The generally accepted theory is that the dinosaurs (combined with other factors) were finally wiped out around 65 million years ago after a meteor hit the Earth Noah's Arc and the great flood allegedly occurred around 5000 years ago, dependent upon interpretation of dates of course humans and dinosaurs did not co-exist
11. Noah didn't forget to put any creature that God told him to include on the ark. Genesis 7:2-5 says, "Of every clean beast you shall take to you by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days, and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. And Noah did ccording to all that the LORD commanded him." As you can see, only the animals that God said were clean went in by twos, except for the birds, which seven of each kind were included so that they could re-seed the earth when the flood receeded. No one really knows what the conditions of the earth was, once the flood receeded, so it's not really known how the animals all found food enough to live on, though we know that the birds re-seeded the earth to make sure of a future food supply. As for the unclean animals, these could have been the dinosaurs, being that they were mainly of the lizard variety, and those were considered unclean, or inedible by God's people. This was part of the dietary laws that Deuteronomy speaks about at length. Believe it or not, the cockroach is also considered "prehistoric", having its skeletal remains found in fossils. I have a hard time with evolution, because of all these gaps that cannot be filled. And, like you've mentioned, the alligator too, is "prehistoric", with no links to show where they evolved from. Evolution just doesn't wash. There are still monkeys folks. Why haven't they evolved, if we indeed did come from monkeys? Just because they found a bunch of fossils of the bones of what could possibly be severly afflicted and deformed "cave dwellers" doesn't mean they were a product of evolution. I believe that evolution is man's way of trying to disprove the existence of God. I believe it takes as much faith to believe in evolution as it does in creation. As far as knowing what else is still unknowable from the depths of the ocean, just consider the tsunami that happened a couple of years ago, and all the weird creatures that they found washed up on the beaches. There's still much we don't know about our own earth, and there's much we have to learn about God's plan, which all fit together. Even science is finding out new stuff every day, and need to readjust their once firm findings. <*)))><
12. Read Genesis 6:18-20 about Noah and the animals. It doesn’t say two of every kind except dinosaurs. Now, keep in mind that God brought the animals to Noah; it says they will “come to you”; he didn’t have to go out and catch them. The response that often comes from the skeptic is: “Noah couldn’t have fit all those animals in the ark—especially the dinosaurs!” And you ask them, “How many animals had to go in the ark?” “I don’t know.” “Well, how big was the ark?” “I don’t know.” So, you don’t believe an unknown amount of animals could have fit in an unknown sized ark? First of all, Genesis 6:20 states that representative kinds of birds and land animals boarded the Ark, not all the different species and subspecies. People say, “But there were over 600 names for dinosaurs.” Yes, and there are many names for the different types of dogs in the world, but all the dog “species” came from only one original dog kind—one Genesis kind. There were many different Ceratopsia dinosaurs that probably all came from one Genesis kind. Many creationists believe there were fewer than 50 distinct kinds of dinosaurs that had to be on the Ark. Second, you also need to remember that the ark didn’t look like those cutesy Sunday School pictures. The ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall (and that’s using a small cubit measurement; it could have been quite a bit larger). The space in the ark would have held more than 520 modern railroad boxcars, and I’ve read that shippers allocate up to 250 sheep per boxcar when moving them by train. Third, not all dinosaurs were huge, many were as small as chickens. Some scientists say the average size of the dinosaurs was about that of a sheep or a small pony. Very few of the dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes. And fourth, who says that he took full grown dinosaurs on board? It would be foolish to fill up space on the ark with the oldest, biggest adults. The largest fossil dinosaur eggs found are about the size of a football. Reptiles normally grow till the day they die so the enormous dinosaurs were probably just very old. Would God want to use senior citizens to populate the new world? Their main purpose was to reproduce after the flood. I don’t think there were old adults of any of the animals on the ark. If dinosaurs got on the ark, then dinosaurs got off the ark. That being the case, you would expect to find legends of dinosaurs in history. Why don’t we read stories about men fighting dinosaurs or dinosaurs eating people’s cows and stuff like that? Well, most people are unaware that the word “dinosaur” was not coined until the 1840s by Sir. Richard Owen (who was a Creationist by the way). So, if these creatures lived alongside humans prior to that time, they were not called dinosaurs. So what were they called? Dragons. Most cultures throughout the world possess ancient stories about dragons and sea monsters that closely resemble what we today would call dinosaurs. For instance, the flag of Wales depicts a dragon, which by the way, is claimed by some to be the oldest national flag still in use. Dragon stories have been handed down for generations in most civilizations. No doubt many of these stories have been exaggerated through the years, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have their original basis in fact. I believe many of the dragon legends are simply distorted versions of dinosaur encounters. So why did they die off? Well, many Creationists believe the 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. 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 man killed 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. 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.”