Why do people believe a meteor that hit only one little section of the planet killed ALL the dinosaurs?
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We're still working on that, but, man, did it ever squash the hell out of the ones directly beneath it. The suspicion is that the others simply pined away when they heard what happened to their relatives.
Meteor = Extinction Level Event. The force of the meteor strike is like setting of all our atomic weapons... In One Go...
The global flood is "not reasonable" because
Because the meteor didn't need to physically crush dinosaurs in order to cause environmental changes that would kill them, and because, in a similar fashion that a world-crushing meteor would do more than just kill dinosaurs, so would your Biblical flood have severe implications for life on our planet (specifically, plants).
No, an even more reasonable explanation is that robots took over the world and were programmed to kill all the dinosaurs!
Although your definition of reasonable makes no sense...
"How can scientists be so smart but yet so stupid?"
Yeah, you show those so-called "scientists." I'm sure you get it way better than they do.
And how come bullets kill someone? I mean they're so SMALL and people are so much BIGGER.
We all know SATAN really kills people with EVIL and then GOD saves their SOULS, something so small couldn't KILL a HUMAN.
It only takes a meteor a mile in diameter to create a catasthrophic event. The K-T meteor is estimated at 50 miles, and left a crater at least 150 miles in diameter.image
So it may be "one little section", but that's one giant ass meteor.
Because the asteroid ITSELF didn't kill all the dinosaurs. It was the smoke and debris from the impact that spread around the globe, hung around in the sky for a long time, blocked out the sun, and killed off most plant life, effectively starving the dinos. Smaller animals like small mammals that didn't eat much and could get underground survived to reproduce.
(At least, I'm pretty sure it worked like that.)
Oh, and some of the dinos evolved or were evolving into birds, so the meteor didn't kill all of them.
Occams razor and the massive evidence against a global flood says you're wrong.
Although admittedly the effects from a meteor are different then the effects of a nuclear explosion.
Oh dear.
Think for one second how FAST the thing would be travelling. Think about how GLOBAL temperatures were affected by something like, oooh, Krakatoa erupting.
Actually READ something, then come back and talk with the grown ups.
"Why do people believe a meteor that hit only one little section of the planet killed ALL the dinosaurs?"
"Seriously, wouldn't a global flood be a more reasonable explaination?"
No, because we know where meteors come from, but where did the flood water come from. Goddiddit doesn't count.
"How can scientists be so smart but yet so stupid?"
How can scientists invent the internet you posted this on, yet miss something this obvious? So close and yet so far.
I shall explain. With SCIENCE.
Take a plant and put it in a closet with no light for at least a month.
Don't eat anything for two weeks.
That's how a meteor hitting the Earth can kill things off.
And here's how a giant flood covering the Earth in miles of water couldn't possibly have happened.
There you go. SCIENCE!
Actually he's half right, it probably wasn't a meteor that did for the Dinosaurs, if they did cause mass extinctions then there would have been a lot more that just 5 mass extinctions in history. It was probably more to do with the volcanic super plume that caused the Siberian Traps to form. As for the flood though? how do you explain the other animals surviving, or the giant lizards which ruled to seas also going extinct.
there are still dinosaurs in existence, one of the last few is the loch ness monster.....How can christian fundies be so smart yet so stupid? Oh and that lovely Noah;s flood story is a blatant ripoff of the epic of gilgamesh, I think if he were still alive he might just be suing for copyright infringement:)
AN EXPLANATION'S WORTH IS NOT BASED ON THE NUMBER OF WORDS IT TAKES TO EXPLAIN IT.
Example:Short but Wrong: "God did it"Longer but Right: "Well, mankind came about as a result of numerous small changes over long periods...."
The meteor's effects were felt over a great distance. 500 kilometres away from the impact site, most living things would be burned to death by radiant heat from the fireball. Even on the other side of the planet, the blast would still have enough energy to blow away small creatures and knock over larger dinosaurs.
This poster doesn't seem to understand that events generally have consequences, and that huge events generally have huge consequences, and that the consequences of those consequences generally have consequences, etc.
The consequences of the meteor strike are what eventually killed the dinosaurs, which did not all suddenly die at the moment of impact.
Oh, and the evidence for the meteor strike exists, in and around the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The evidence for a global flood, on the other hand, is non existent, especially as it allegedly happened half a second ago in geological terms.
Because:
1) We have the crater
2) It's not the impact, it's the dust changing temperatures
3) We don't have enough water
4) We don't have any evidence whatsoever of a global flood
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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