Ehh... God didnt kill any dinosaurs. There is no scientific reason as to why the dinosaurs died. Its all 'maybes' and 'probablys' but the bible explains it perfectly and it fits in perfectly. Dinosaurs have massive lungs and small nostrils. But before the flood. Water was above earth, so twice the air pressure, meaning much faster skin healing time and easier to breathe. After the flood. Dinosaurs couldn't cope. Struggling for breath they bred in vain. producing only small lizards which lived much shorter times (because of lack of oxygen) and thus, the dinosaurs died out.
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And the fundies say that evolution is a crackpot theory without any empirical proof...
I'll skip through some of the stupid and start where it gets uniquely insane:But before the flood.
How is that a sentence? It is a tail and you used it as a lead out.
Water was above earth,
So you're saying we're still flooded to 15 cubits above the highest mountain tops?
so twice the air pressure,
Really? Twice hey! Do you have your calculations for that? In hectopascals please, including how many thousand percent of humidity that would be! Also explain why a supersaturated solution would avoid the condensation through coolness or nucleation that currently occurs in the precipitation cycle. i.e. why didn't it rain until then when it would've been impossible not to. Also to help you out here, you're talking about a billion cubic kilometres of water required, which at 1 atmosphere and 25 degrees celcius will be 1200 times larger as a gas, and will increase the air pressure by hundreds of atmospheres...
meaning much faster skin healing time
Much faster hey, are you sure you don't mean very slightly faster? Why is that? You might want to look into the reasons behind that.
and easier to breathe
Actually extreme humidity makes it harder to breathe you twat and large cavernous lungs and small nostrils would make condensation more likely, partially drowning them.
After the flood
What, the one that never happened?
Dinosaurs couldn't cope.
They got depressed and started medicating their kids did they, or inventing imaginary friends to make them feel better about themselves?
Struggling for breath they bred in vain.
Oh dear, oh dear of deary me!
producing only small lizards which lived much shorter times (because of lack of oxygen)
OK, one day you really should open an actual book with actual evidence that explains that dinosaurs aren't lizards and vice versa. Please also explain the effect of oxygen enrichment upon inhibiting cell apoptosis!
Time for fundy lessons.
A fairly intelligent friend of mine actually had bought into some of this "canopy theory" (heck, one of my elementary school teachers actually promoted it as fact, too!), and I directed him to some scientific articles that explain how it doesn't hold up. He hasn't mentioned it since.
Now its time for more fundy lessons.
You know something Argo, I am pretty sure that this shit is not in the bible. In fact, I have probably read more of the bible then you have. Why don't people like you try to actually learn something about your own fucking religion before shoving down other people's throats?
And Nicole, they get this crap from the bible. Read the story of Noahs ark, you will see where the water previously up in the sky falls down and the water previously underground shoots up. http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/febible.htm .
Water developes about a half a psi per vertical foot, so there would have been a hell of a lot more than twice the pressure. This would not have affected the oxygen level, but as soon as it rained, every living thing would explode or instantly form fatal embolisms. The fossil record does not support this. He also assumes that somehow the surface tension of water was higher than that of, well, ANYTHING, for the shell to remain intact until it finally rained down, at which point the surface tension reverted back to normal for drops to form. Small nostrils? What about their huge mouths?
Julian: Well, sure, but that was hundreds of millions of years before even microbes and algae appeared. That "canopy" of steam had long since condensed out into rain and filled the oceans (and thus cleared the skies) looooooong before anything even living existed, let alone before any biblical-era person was around to try to build a zooboat.
There is no evidence that the Earth has ever at one point been entiely covered in water. There is evidence that the Earth was hit by a meteor 65 million years ago. It's called the K-T Boundary, it's a thin line of iridium, an element almost inexistant on Earth but common in meteor, that seperates the Cretaceous from the Teritary periods. That and the huge fucking crater off the coast of Mexico.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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