What really happened to the dinosaurs?

“According to evolutionists, dinosaurs evolved 235 million years ago and dominated the landscape until 65 million years ago when they abruptly and mysteriously died out. According to a biblical perspective, dinosaurs were created on Day 6 of the Creation Week and most became extinct as a result of the Flood described in Genesis. Not all dinosaurs died in the Flood—they would have been among the many kinds of animals on the Ark. Those that got off the Ark have since become extinct. The history of the dinosaurs is not as complex as evolutionists make it out to be. The different views are a result of starting from a different set of assumptions.

While we don’t know everything about dinosaurs, we can draw certain conclusions based on the evidence found in fossils. It is always important to note that what we know about the dinosaurs is limited by the evidence and the amount of interpretation that is reasonable.

The presence of dinosaur/dragon legends suggests that man and dinosaurs lived together. The diet and behavior of dinosaurs can be known before the Fall—they were all vegetarians (see Genesis 1:29–30)—but after the Fall many of them must have become carnivores based on tooth marks on bones in the fossil record. Although we can’t know everything about the dinosaurs, if we start with the Bible as the accurate history book of the universe, we can come to many reasonable conclusions about their history.”  Evolution Exposed, Second Ed.,  What really happened to the dinosaurs? Ham. www.answersingenesis.org/radio/pdf/whathappenedtodinos.pdf

Response to comment [from a "Christian"]: "So God chose to save huge numbers of animal species in the flood, only to allow most of them to become extinct afterwards?"

The creation model uses the Genesis Flood to explain the sudden disappearance of the majority of life on earth and the presence of billions of fossils buried in rock layers laid down by water.

The evidence overwhelmingly points to a worldwide flood.

See:

In the Beginning http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/Figure1.html

 

The Bible says there was a worldwide flood:

"Even conservative Christians, although professing belief in the divine inspiration of Scripture, have often ignored the significance of the Flood. They have been intimidated by the evolutionary geologists and paleontologists who, for over a hundred years, have insisted that all of earth history should be explained in terms of slow development over great ages by the operation of the same natural processes which now prevail, completely rejecting the concept of the universal Flood at the dawn of history. Many Christians have attempted to work out a compromise with evolutionary geology by explaining the Flood as a local flood, caused by a great overflow of the Euphrates or some other river in the Middle East. It must be settled here, therefore, first of all, that the Bible record does describe a universal, world-destroying Flood."
Morris, Henry M.: The Genesis Record : A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on the Book of Beginnings. Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Books, 1976, S. 199

Response to comment [from a "Christian"]:  "Fossilization takes time..."

Wonder how they found a fossilized cowboy boot? :BillyBob:

Limestone cowboy:  "The rubber-soled boot with petrified cowboy leg, bones and all was found in a dry creek bed near the West Texas town of Iraan, about 1980 by Mr. Jerry Stone, an employee of Corvette oil company. The boot was hand made by the M. L. Leddy boot company of San Angelo, Texas which began manufacturing boots in 1936. Gayland Leddy, nephew of the founder, grew up in the boot business and now manages Boot Town in Garland, Texas. He recognized the "number 10 stitch pattern" used by his uncle’s company and concluded that the boot was made in the early 1950's. Only the contents of the boot are fossilized, not the boot itself, demonstrating that some materials fossilize more readily than others. The bones of the partial leg and foot within the boot were revealed by an elaborate set of C.T. Scans performed at Harris Methodist Hospital in Bedford, Texas on July 24, 1997. The Radiologic Technician was Evelyn Americus, AART. A complete set of these scans remains with the boot at the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas..." full text:  Are Fossils as Old as Scientists Say they Are? http://www.bibleprobe.com/creationism.htm

"...[T]he order of the fossils completely negates creationism."

The absence of these transitional forms and the abrupt appearance of complex life forms is evidence that these groups were created by God and then later buried in the Flood of Noah's day. 

The Flood should serve as a reminder that another judgment is coming (Lk 17:26) next time not by water but fire (2 Pe 3:10). 

"...all layers show rapid deposition..."

"Wouldn’t we expect to find rock layers all over the earth that are filled with billions of dead animals and plants that were rapidly buried and fossilized in sand, mud, and lime? Yes, and that’s exactly what we find..." full text:  No Slow and Gradual ErosionFlood Evidence Number Five http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v4/n1/no-slow-erosion

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "From geological reasoning bunny rabbits must apparently be far stronger and much more enduring swimmers than any sauropod was during the “Flud”, truly amazing."

How soon after death would a large dinosaur (or a group of large dinosaurs) need to be buried by sediment to prevent scavengers from scattering its bones?  It would seem that a catastrophic would have had to take place to bury a large animal in sediment.

What really happened to the dinosaurs?