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To avoid derailing a thread about Creationist ideas with random arguments about evolution and paleontology I have started a new thread. I hope @Platte can comment here.
The problem is that we also have fossils of small dinosaurs with different structures to modern animals and we also have baby and juvenile versions of some of the giant varieties, meaning they can't simply be normal animals grown huge in a different environment.
Komodo dragon is a good example, because there was an enormous version of a monitor lizard in Australia... but it was still clearly a giant lizard and not a dinosaur.
I don't understand why you would expect to only find extinct species.
If all the animals were killed why wouldn't all the lions, tigers, cows, elephants and rhinos be mixed in with the dinosaurs?
There's also the really big problem in that there isn't any evidence for a world wide flood.
The world is full of fossil and sedimentary layered rocks that show signs of thousands and millions of years of small changes, not a single gigantic layer of floodwater.
Prior to the flood life expectancy was much longer - that is why animals, especially reptiles grew very large. As life expectancy dropped after the flood, the size of animals greatly reduced also. That is why you no longer have dinosaurs today. There was no comet and it wasn’t millions of years ago.
Dinosaurs were structured differently to modern animals.
Dinosaurs came in sizes from tiny to titanic.
Not a single modern species is ever found in the same layers as a dinosaur.
Dinosaurs bones have fossilised and turned to stone.
Look up lions, pigs, rhino and pretty much every other animal. They have super size fossils of all of them. Great big elephants and tigers and of course huge sharks. But we don’t see them that size anymore. Imagine a blue whale 1000 years old. Would be way more massive than it is today
I’m sure some were structure different. But there are many massive fossils of lion, tigers, elephants, sharks, etc. what would a Komodo dragan look like if it was growing for 1000 years. Probably would have some changes in structure.
The problem is that we also have fossils of small dinosaurs with different structures to modern animals and we also have baby and juvenile versions of some of the giant varieties, meaning they can't simply be normal animals grown huge in a different environment.
Komodo dragon is a good example, because there was an enormous version of a monitor lizard in Australia... but it was still clearly a giant lizard and not a dinosaur.
By the way almost all fossils are of extinct animals. So of course modern fossils wouldn’t be in the same layer (there are no modern animal fossils). Imagine a flood that killed every animal on earth at the same time. Billions of animals all die. No scavengers to clean up. Many buried in sediment. Animals that lived much longer than they do today and were much larger. Not surprising that almost all fossils are huge compared to today animals. This scenario has really messed with the minds of scientists. And this is how they’ve treated this. Remember. All animals in earth died at the same time. That’s your fossils
I don't understand why you would expect to only find extinct species.
If all the animals were killed why wouldn't all the lions, tigers, cows, elephants and rhinos be mixed in with the dinosaurs?
There's also the really big problem in that there isn't any evidence for a world wide flood.
The world is full of fossil and sedimentary layered rocks that show signs of thousands and millions of years of small changes, not a single gigantic layer of floodwater.