What are the reasons for dinosaurs' disapprearance?

[Hreeshav]

[jno]

possibly as a result of an asteroid collision that would have changed the climate sufficiently to wreck their habitat.

Or maybe because rodents ate all their eggs.

Or maybe they just evolved

http://uktv.co.uk/eden/stepbystep/aid/586428

[factor-fiction]

http://tinyurl.com/2bqy3mr

[chakka35]

They certainly didn't evolve. When you consider that they were by far the most successful species that the earth has ever seen, and disappeared at a time when our ancestors were just little shrews running up trees, the mind boggles at what dinosaurs would have evolved to by now.

[jno]

be wary of the word 'certainly'. It seems quite likely some evolved into birds

http://www.timesonlin...nt/article3811158.ece

Though religious hardliners disagree

http://www.genesispar...npark/birds/birds.htm

[Vagrant]

They were destroyed when a Cyberman freighter crashed into the earth. The 4th Doctor's companion Adric was trying to prevent the crash, but failed to unlock the navigation controls in time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adric

[wildwood]

It is almost certain that a colossal asteroid collision is responsible but not as many people think. The collision would no doubt have created a long time dark period when plants didn't grow. This killed of the herbivorous dinos and subsequently the large carnivores who where too big to catch small prey.

Some, such as crocodiles and small pre-mammals survived. There is still a real small dinosaur that survives in NZ called a tuatara. This one had probably already spread out to NZ before that broke away from the Australasian mainland. Many insect are also present in the same form as they were over 100,000mill. years ago.

[Hopkirk]

Because every last one of them died.

[chakka35]

Quite right, jno. Careless use of language on my part.
At the time of their disappearance one dinosaur ran on two legs, had binocular vision and a very large brain. I often wonder what would have come of that one during the subsequent 60 million years while those shrews evolved into mankind. No guarantee that it would have evolved at all, of course, but just an idle thought.

[sandyRoe]

God needed to clear the Earth so he could people it with humans. He said 'Let them be gone'. And they were.
At least, thats what some people I know believe.

[mibn2cweus]

I'm sure when we locate the Garden of Eden dinosaurs will be found there.
Ahem . . . This is the science section for God's sake. Shouldn't we at the very least be attempting to provide honest rational answers?

[RATTER15]

Mibn2cweus "God's sake" for who's sake? c'mon keep it scientific please!!

[mibn2cweus]

If only that creature existed in this day and age only in the form of fossil remains.

[rov1200]

As an analogy if the male human species were to die out or even beome infertile then within about 100 years no humans would exist.

The exception to this would be if a designer could intervene to create life from the available abundent amino acids in a test tube. This is what the scientist Craig Venter is doing in the US. The problem is you need intelligent being/s, not necessarily god-like, to do this.

[McMouse]

The government of the day introduced compulsory contraception.

[mibn2cweus]

rov1200, You seem to be conceding that a highly developed intelligence is required to duplicate a process of evolution. Do you also accept that such a degree of highly developed intelligence could only have arose following a extended complex process of evolution, negating any possibility that such an intelligence preceded and drove the process through which a purposeful creative intelligence originally became manifest?

[Old_Geezer]

I was told all the female dinosaurs got into a strop when the male dinosaurs looked at another female across the plain. So no more little dinosaurs after that.

[rov1200]

Evolutionists can't grasp certain facts:

"""A baby needs a number of very complex, interdependent systems to live and survive. These systems include the nervous, digestive, excretory, circulatory, skeletal, muscular and an immune system. For the baby to survive and live each system requires all the other systems to be functioning. Therefore all these systems must be in operation at the same time and could not have evolved slowly over millions of years"""

Dogma, brainwashed or what?.

[Greedyfly]

So Jurassic Park could be made!

[Old_Geezer]

Evolutionists clearly grasp more facts that yourself.

You don't have to have evolved into one of the baby creatures one sees today in order to be living and to reproduce. So the gradually emergent complexity has no bearing on the matter.

Dogma, brainwashed or what ?

[chakka35]

rov1200, that is the old "irreducible complexity" fallacy which has been debunked so many times that I'm surprised that it is still trotted out. The idea that evolutionists "can't grasp" the facts that you list is absurd. They grasp them and explain them.