hasbeen99

Actually, there are vague references to the existence of both land dwelling and marine dinosaurs in the book of Job, chapters 40 and 41.

Veovis

Small nitpick: There is no such thing as a marine dinosaur.

hasbeen99

I was thinking of a plesiosaur (sp?). I probably used an incorrect label there. My bad.

andy_d

[childhood trauma]
Eugh! Koala's are bloody horrible animals.
[/childhood trauma]

They should all be shot. Slowly.

Rhaedas

Rehash once again, and probably pointless being in Elsewhere, but...

These days, all that newly introduced water would throw the whole marine ecosystem into disarray. Good thing the aquatic creatures back then were a lot more tolerant of extreme changes, like in saline and other mineral content in the water, much less temperature changes. Obviously the flood didn't affect the plankton growth at all either, that being the beginning of the food chain, affecting the rest of the sea.

Thesto Neroses

Dinosaurs? That was one of God's easiest jokes.

God just put those fossils there to fuck with our heads.

Babylon Sister

According to the resident full-tilt fundamentalist where I work, it's SATAN'S FAULT!!!!

(I'm an archeologist so he loves to parade this "fact" around me. I am no longer surprised by the number of fundamentalist christians who don't know the difference between paleontology and archeology.)

WWSD

How does one slowly shoot something?

Gawdawful

With a .22 Colibri (.22LR case with only primer and smaller pointier bullet) with a muzzle velocity of only 370 fps, the slowest round I can find in any ballistics chart, not a lot faster than an arrow out of a compound bow. The worst part is it only has 6 ft/lb energy at the muzzle, may not even clear the barrel in a rifle and surely won't cycle a semi-auto. Great for plinking rats in the kitchen though. Or koalas.


Warren in Oklahoma

wonkothesane

My ex-sis-in-law says that Noah put Dinos on the Ark (as well as every other creature in the fossil record, of which there are more extinct than alive today many times over)....problem is, the Ark wasn't big enough to hold them all - she says God used his powers to make them all fit - well, problem is, the Ark was a pretty big boat...like what, near the size of the Titanic? So if he could squeeze all those creatures into such a small space, why build the Ark such an arbitrarily large size? Why could'nt he just have Noah build something like the T.A.R.D.I.S. in "Dr. Who"??? (A small box a few feet wide on the outside, with near infinite space on the inside?) I mean, "He" is God and all...why make Noah do all that work?

And anyway, why save so many creatures, just to let the vast majority of them go extinct? What a waste!

- bryce