Was the rule of Dinosaurs real?
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Dinosaurs are archosaurs, a group that includes crocodiles, birds, and all the descendants of their most recent common ancestor. The closest relatives of dinosaurs, which evolved with them in the Middle and Late Triassic (about 225 million years ago), include the flying pterosaurs and agile, rabbit-sized forms such as Lagosuchus and Lagerpeton. The common ancestor of all these forms was small, lightly built, bipedal, and probably an active carnivore or omnivore. Somewhat larger, with skulls ranging 15–30 cm (6–12 in.) in length, were Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus from the Late Triassic of Argentina, and Staurikosaurus from the early Late Triassic of Brazil. They were thought to be primitive saurischian dinosaurs, but it was later determined that they were outside the group formed by Saurischia plus Ornithischia, a view generally followed. In reconsidering these genera plus the more recently discovered Eoraptor, it has been argued that all three are both saurischians and theropods. However, they lack some features of both groups, so their position remains controversial. This testifies to a burst of evolutionary change at this very interesting time in vertebrate history, and it shows that there are a variety of taxa that are very close to the origin of dinosaurs. The first definite ornithischians and saurischians appear at almost the same time as these taxa, though dinosaurs remained generally rare and not very diverse components of terrestrial faunas until the beginning of the Jurassic Period (about 200 million years ago).
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The fossil history is false. The scientists don't know what they are talking about. Radiometric dating is flawed. Everything is a lie except the Bible. I am trying out the other side of this argument. It's pretty weak I must say.
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They're mentioned in the Bible I think in the way that a primitive society would write about dinosaurs. As giant beast and dragons and so forth.\n\nIf you listen to most Christians rhetoric about the dinosaurs, you'll realize they cannot reconcile archaeological findings with their own beliefs. Many of them deny the existence of dinosaurs all together. Some say they're not as old as science has claimed. Some even say they lived on other planets and when G*d used the material to make the earth he took the bones with it.\n\nThe fact of the matter is we are living with people who use an outdated reference guide for life. They cannot admit that they've been had. The earth is not 6000 years old. The earth is not 10,000 years old. Dinosaurs DID exist. And we evolved from a species similar to ourselves.\n\nI won't claim G*D did not create the dinosaurs....as I don't know. \nAnd I won't claim science is perfect....we all know it's not.\nBut when you take the overwhelming preponderance of evidence and throw it all out the window because of a book your mommy told you was true.....well, that's just stupid.
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No, creationism is real but it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster who created the world look i have proof:\n\nhttp://www.venganza.org/
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Silly old scientists did...they placed false chicken bones that have been pumped up in size to appear huge and then buried in the ground to make fools of creationist's...we are onto them though!
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You probably saw the Animal Planet special "Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real."\n\nThe fire-breathing flying dragons protrayed on the show certainly never existed, but the dragon myth arose to explain dinosaur bones discovered by ancient people. So, in a sense, dragons were real, just not like the ones seen on this show or in any movie with a heroic knight.
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so many of those answers just make me want to cry!\nthe bible does not mention dinosaurs so they did not exist?!?!?\nlets just ignore facts and all those fossils!\n\nIt is insanity!
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In the West, we're pretty cynical. We don't believe anything until it's shown to us: hence theories of dinosaurs were laughed at until bones were first turfed up in the 19th Century. Other examples: the komodo dragon, the seahorse, the blue whale, the dodo, the protozoa (tiny microscopic organism), the elephant, the narwhal, the white rhino, the moose, the platypus...the list is endless. And there are still loads of animals we think are myths that may be de-mythed in the future: the yeti, the bunyip, the Loch Ness Monster, the unicorn...
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About a year ago it was revealed, on this man's death bed, that he and either another family member or a friend, back in the 1970's made a plaster cast of a large foot and make the entire story up.  It was a big controversy, so the answer would be "no" Bigfoot is not real.\n\nHave a lovely rest of the evening.
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Actually the god of dinosaurs and the god of man had a bet going on to see who could do it better.  the god of dinosaurs had his 10 million years, now its the god of mans turn.\n\nMan is killing himself, while the dinosaurs needed a meteor to kill them off. Next up is the god of 3 toed sloths.
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No. The whole thing is a myth. Not even an original one. they just copied off of earlier civilizations myths.
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i personally feel the meteor impact was the cause of the KT extinction - but people should not infer that the impact itself killed everything off - it was the fallout from the impact (the extremely versatile climate) which led to the dinosaurs being unable to adapt to it and dying off
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If you're talking about the "tracks" in Paluxy river, Texas, these have been around, and been debunked, since the mid 1970's.  Even many creationist sources now recognize that the footprints are bogus.\n\nHowever, some creationist web sites and books *still* trot these out, decades after they've been debunked, as "evidence" of the co-existence of dinosaurs and humans, even though the overwhelming evidence is that they went extinct 65 *million* years before the first humans appeared.  \n\nIn other words, any source you see that brings up the Texas footprints is *not* the place you want to going for scientific information.
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well actually I've been pondering this for a while. God say's He created them. I dont think they were 'pets'. the fossil soil beneath us is four miles thick all around the earth. that translates into one hell of a lot of dinosaurs. then they died . God begins creating again calling forth 'every living creature'. life begins to grow and mulitply on its own without God's help. so it is my feeling that the dinosaurs served one absolute and essential purpose. God created them specifically to be used as fertilizer for the earth. to provide fossil fuel. the earth would not be in existence today if not for the dinosaurs. life as we know it would not be the same. they were used to prepare the earth for human habitation.
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In my opinion nothing.  Many die hard Christians agree and believe dinosaurs never existed because they are not in the bible.  Many other just as die hard point to Job 40:15-24 as a description of a dino.  Check the website out.  I still think the bible says nothing, but make up your own mind...
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Not necessarily.  The problem with anthropologists is that they're really only making educated guesses.  They can't say with 100% certainty that anything they present is fact.  I became very annoyed with the anthropologist Steven Spielberg consulted when making "Jurassic Park" because he made comments like "We know these dinosaurs didn't do that" and "This is exactly what this dinosaur would have looked like."  How the heck does he know?  Was he there?\n\nTo answer your question:  I wouldn't automatically accept the notion that T. Rex was a pack hunter.  I would have to examine the evidence for myself and see how the researchers came up with their theories.
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Dinosaurs died 100,000,000 years ago. \nThey're gone! Get over it.