you guys are
trying to fit your ideas into something it doesn't belong to.
And then, barely a breath later, responding to why God would wipe out the dinosaurs:
Perhaps..............................their purpose was done.
Part of design?
It is so mind-bogglingly obvious how circular (assuming the conclusion) this is, and how it immediately displays what you just accused others of above.
When much of Earth’s landmass was covered by huge shallow seas, God created large dinosaurs.
Thanks to the shallow seas, these large dinosaurs could take advantage of the shallow seas to support their huge body masses that otherwise would have been impossible to sustain.
The existence of a huge, diverse, and enduring population of dinosaurs during past eras when much of Earth’s continental landmass was covered by huge shallow seas significantly contributed to Earth’s present store of biodeposits.
Examples of such biodeposits include limestone, marble, coal, oil, and natural gas.
Dinosaurs, therefore, are expressions of God’s love and generosity.
It is thanks in part to God’s creation of dinosaurs that humans possess more than 76 quadrillion tons of biodeposits that we can use to develop the civilization and technology to take the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ to billions of humans within just a few millennia.
Question of the week: If God is merciful, then why did he create dinosaurs and then destroy them? My answer: God subjected the entire universe to a pervasive law of decay or thermodynamics (Romans 8:20–22) as a means to efficiently eradicate evil and suffering (see Why the Universe Is the Way It...
reasons.org
How life blossomed after the dinosaurs died
www.science.org
Imagine the devastating impact they'll have on people and other life forms, had they not gone extinct.
This is so fallacious it's painful. The impact they
did have on early mammals prevented mammals from evolving and "blossoming" (as your link points out) into larger and more diverse mammals for almost 100 million years. The earliest mammals for which we have found fossil evidence were around over 160 million years ago.
No anatomically modern human bones or fossils that show up anywhere in the fossil record that are older than about 250,000 years. The dinosaurs were gone 65
million years ago, so humans could have survived 60 million years ago with the dinosaurs being wiped out, if God would have bothered to create them, and yet anatomically modern humans do not show up in the fossil record until about 250,000. We have found 1-2 million year old homo erectus bones, 3-4 million year old Australopithecus bones, ~10 million year old dryopithecus bones, 20 million year old proconsul bones, 30 million year old Aegyptopithecus bones, and so on. Based on all fossil evidence we've ever found, none of these 5+ million year old animals exist today as they existed then, and no humans or hominids existed way back then that exist today. It's overwhelming how strongly this points to evolution and how strongly it points away from
any religious story of creation.
You've acknowledged how microevolution happens within a species, within a geologically short period of time (hence the prefix 'micro'). But if you accumulate microevolutionary changes over tens of millions of years, the changes can be mindbogglingly vast. How? Tens of millions of years is a mindbogglingly long time.
If you could live for 2 millennia, you could have known Jesus personally. Two millennia is a
really long time by our standards. If you wanted to rewind just 10 more millennia before that, you'd see humans were basically smart animals with tools. We hadn't even begun to develop agricultural methods a mere 12 millennia ago.
And yet if you wanted to rewind to the time when brachiosaurs and similar animals relied on shallow sea waters to support their enormous body masses, which you were just talking about in this post above, you would have to go back
one hundred and forty-five thousand millennia. Less than two millennia since the New Testament was written, less than three millennia since the oldest Bible verses were written, 12 millennia since we even began to discover agricultural methods for our food....
One Hundred and Forty Five Thousand millennia since the dinosaurs you are talking about in your post above existed.