All non-avian dinosaurs were killed 66 million years ago by a catastrophic asteroid impact, known as the Chicxulub impactor which struck the Yucatán Peninsula, triggering massive earthquakes, tsunamis, and launching dust and gases into the atmosphere that blocked sunlight, causing a global "impact winter" and halting photosynthesis, leading to widespread ecosystem collapse and the extinction of about 75% of life on Earth.
Sixty-six million years ago, dinosaurs had the ultimate bad day. With a devastating asteroid impact, a reign that had lasted 180 million years was abruptly ended. Our dinosaur researcher Professor Paul Barrett explains what is thought to have happened the day the dinosaurs died.
Short answer: non-avian dinosaurs went extinct because a rapid, global environmental collapse triggered by an asteroid impact (the Chicxulub event), amplified by massive volcanism and long-term environmental stresses, destroyed their ecosystems and food webs faster than most large terrestrial animals could adapt.
Evidence suggests an asteroid impact was the main culprit. Volcanic eruptions that caused large-scale climate change may also have been involved, together with more gradual changes to Earth's climate that happened over millions of years.
Some think the flood in Genesis 7:1-8:19 played a role in the extinction of some dinosaurs and created corresponding fossil records, but the flood story seems to say “everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the ark” to survive the flood (Genesis 7:8-9).
If the answer is that 1) the dinosaurs lived and died before Adam and Eve, then we are consistent with evolutionary theory at least in the sense that dinosaurs lived long before humans.
The short answer is, “Yes.” This is one of those areas where Christians should be free to disagree. There are many conservative Bible scholars who believe in something like evolution.
In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive.
Pelycosaurs, like Dimetrodon, were early reptiles that thrived during the Permian period, before dinosaurs. Therapsids were mammal-like reptiles with powerful jaws that evolved during the early Permian period. Archosaurs were diverse reptiles that led to the first dinosaurs and still include crocodiles today.
Chickens are closer to the Tyrannosaurus rex than any other living animal. Through genetic studies, scientists found that birds, especially chickens, share significant molecular similarities with the T. rex, linking them directly to this group of dinosaurs.
The truth is, even with modern technology, there's no way we are bringing dinosaurs back from the dead. To do that, we would need a living cell, and for dinosaurs, that no longer exists — not even in amber. “There is no DNA in dinosaur remains. Dinosaur remains are rocks, and rocks don't have DNA,” explains Shapiro.
Given enough warning, yes we could deflect it. As far as how much warning we would get is variable depending on if the asteroid approaches from the sunward side of earth's orbit or from the night side. But an asteroid that size would likely get detected years in advance.
Habitat loss is the primary cause of higher extinction rates. Other causes include habitat changes, over-exploitation of wildlife for commercial purposes, the introduction of harmful nonnative species, pollution, and the spread of diseases.
There's no reason to think that the Earth will not be hit by a large asteroid again, but they are generally low probability events. Asteroid impacts have a frequency-magnitude relationship like many other phenomena, i.e., small ones are frequent and likely, large ones are infrequent and unlikely.
After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals (including shrew-sized primates) were alive at the time of the dinosaurs.
The same goes for deep-sea hydrothermal vents. These chimney-like vents form where seawater comes into contact with magma on the ocean floor, resulting in streams of superheated plumes. The microorganisms that live near such plumes have led some scientists to suggest them as the birthplaces of Earth's first life forms.
According to the Bible, the dinosaurs came before Adam and Eve. [25] And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
“Dinosaurs are so old that there probably isn't any dinosaur DNA left on Earth,” Logan told Eye on Science. “Sure, if you were able to store DNA on the dark side of the moon, it could remain stable for millions of years. But on Earth, it cannot survive for long, even in permafrost.
Paleontologists don't know for certain, but perhaps a large body size protected them from most predators, helped to regulate internal body temperature, or let them reach new sources of food (some probably browsed treetops, as giraffes do today).
Chickens are closer to the Tyrannosaurus rex than any other living animal. Through genetic studies, scientists found that birds, especially chickens, share significant molecular similarities with the T. rex, linking them directly to this group of dinosaurs.
Einstein, in a one-and-a-half-page hand-written German-language letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, dated Princeton, New Jersey, 3 January 1954, a year and three and a half months before his death, wrote: "The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of ...
“We are each free to believe what we want and it's my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God.
Elon said God is the creator: pretty clear he believes in God as the creator.