"Dinosaurs" are just animals like any other, they are just extinct. It's just a term they tagged onto them, one could call a dolphin a dinosaur in that respect. Sometimes "science" make no sense. They were most likely loaded into Noah's ark just like all the other animals, there certainly was plenty of room for them (babies). They were generally just too big to live on the transformed Earth. Before the flood there was a canopy of mist that covered the earth and made plants grow in abundance that these big animals could eat, but after the flood it was clear skies which could not support food so well year round, so they died in regards to the largest ones. For the rest, just like any animal, there is a danger of extinction due to the sin of Adam which had consequences for all creation. God didn't create death, that is a result of sin, the sin that Adam commited, so animals die since then as well as does man.
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"Before the flood there was a canopy of mist that covered the earth and made plants grow in abundance that these big animals could eat, but after the flood it was clear skies which could not support food so well year round, so they died in regards to the largest ones."
Where on earth does this kind of thing come from?
""Dinosaurs" are just animals like any other, they are just extinct. It's just a term they tagged onto them, one could call a dolphin a dinosaur in that respect. Sometimes "science" make no sense."
WTF? A dolphin would never be called a dinosaur b/c in order to be called a "dinosaur" a specimen must meet certain qualifications and dolphins do not. YOU, not science, don't make sense at all. Try to learn some science next time you post, m'kay?
Well said, Mike.
As for Faith_Warrior, plants and animals [including us] die because the electrochemical mechanisms in our bodies wear out and are unable to sustain the process of supplying energy. It's really that simple. Get a fucking education.
Dinosaurs have a massive number of... damnit, I lost the word... not distinctive, not definitive... *typic I think... characteristics. Please kill yourself.
Ah, synapomorphic.
God didn't create death, that is a result of sin, the sin that Adam commited, so animals die since then as well as does man.
So Jesus died for the animals too?
There was plenty of room for them? Them and the literally *thousands* of other species?
Maybe if you were Bronze-Age Middle-Easterner there would have been enough room for all of the animals that you saw. Unfortunately, God apparently didn't tell the Bible writers that the world is bigger than the Middle East. Oops.
"It's just a term they tagged onto them, one could call a dolphin a dinosaur in that respect"
You stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid FUCK
He managed to get almost nothing right. While there are nitpicking arguments about the exact definition of "dinosaur", the term can't be applied to dolphins. They aren't completely extinct - birds are a member of the superorder dinosauria. Dinosaurs are not all big. The big ones get mounted in museums because they're popular with the museum-going public. In any event, what happened to the dinosaurs has no effect on the evolution of life. A living coelacanth was found in the 1930's after being thought to have gone extinct around the same time as the dinosaurs and no scientist immediately said "Oh. That proves Genesis must have been right".
Oh, good grief! The word "dinosaur" is NOT just a synonym for "dead or extinct animal." Suggesting otherwise is willful ignorance of the highest order and a gross violation of the language.
The rest of this is creationist claptrap that was debunked decades ago and had no rational basis whatsoever in the first place.
~David D.G.
Next time you see a dolphin weighing 900 tons and 60 feet high, please tell me. And just for the record, animals don´t know they´re going to die and are not aware of their existence. Ergo, they are not affected by sin or by what Adam could have made. Read the Bible better, before saying nonsense, Dr Dino.
Before the flood there was a canopy of mist that covered the earth and made plants grow in abundance that these big animals could eat, but after the flood it was clear skies which could not support food so well year round
Huh? If a layer of mist covered the planet, then plants would have a HARDER time surviving due to a decreased amount of sunlight reaching the surface.
Where do they come up with this stuff?
"Before the flood there was a canopy of mist that covered the earth and made plants grow in abundance that these big animals could eat, but after the flood it was clear skies which could not support food so well year round, so they died in regards to the largest ones."
Where on earth does this kind of thing come from?
AFAIK, the vapor canopy thing is one of the constructs the creationists dreamed up to account for the amount of water described in the Flood.
From an earlier post, I learned that God blights children to punish wicked parents. That's pretty evil. Now I learn that Adam's sin was so great, it condemned the innocent animals (each and every one a vegetarian before the fall, even the tigers and sharks) to death.
I think God's brush is a bit too wide.
And yet another example of stupidity! Why is it that such closed minds come with such big, open mouths?
Where the FUCK did you get your information--out of a crackerjack box? I've studied science all my long life, and you're so full of crap you have it spouting out of both ends.
But what should I expect out of a religious fanatic....
Before the flood there was a canopy of mist that covered the earth and made plants grow in abundance that these big animals could eat, but after the flood it was clear skies which could not support food so well year round, so they died in regards to the largest ones.
Ah, the old "vapor canopy" hypothesis.
It's not accidental that it's called a "canopy" instead of, say, a spherical shell. Because, according to the Bible, the Earth is flat and covered by a transparent dome .
If god was pissed at Adam for sinning, why did he need to take it out on the animals? Why couldn't he just take it up with Adam? Did god hate the animals too? Did god hate the cute fluffy bunnies and kittens and doggies too? Were the animals evil devil-worshipping homosexual fornicators that worked on the sabbath, ate shellfish, got tattoos, wore clothes of mixed fabrics, and weren't virgins on their wedding night? Why does god sound like the abusive husband that was pissed at the kids (Adam and Eve) and when he went outside he was still pissed and had to kick the dog too?
Every attempt you YECs make trying to explain the flood beggars the questions:
What was the point?
And
Why can't your God get his shit together?
Sorry to offend anyone I'm sure but even Metaphorically the entire fable fails on every level. Moderate churchs dance around the entire thing and all of Genesis nonsense because there's really no lessons to be learned, no broken dictates from on high actually established. God's a random fit thrower, THAT'S IT!
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