One of the most unrewarding things a scientist (or science writer) can attempt to do is rebut the arguments of Creationists. This isn't because it's difficult to demolish the Creationist point of view, but because meeting anti-evolutionists on their own terms can make it seem to readers as if there are two logical sides to the argument (which, of course, there aren't).
Still, the attempts by Creationists to fit dinosaurs into their Biblical world view is a worthy topic of discussion, if only for amusement purposes. Here are some of the main arguments fundamentalists use, and the contrasting views from the science camp.
The oldest skeleton of a dinosaur dates back to around 235 million B.C.E. The most recent dinosaur skeleton dates back to around 65.5 million B.C.E. 235-65=170 million years, roughly.
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From the fossils of the earliest dinosaurs, scientists have deduced that dinosaurs first appeared on Earth around 250-270 million years ago.
Ammonites went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, about sixty-five million years ago.
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Sixty-six million years ago, dinosaurs had the ultimate bad day. With a devastating asteroid impact, a reign that had lasted 180 million years was abruptly ended. Prof Paul Barrett, a dinosaur researcher at the Museum, explains what is thought to have happened the day the dinosaurs died.
By this time, they were at the end of their existence.The last dinosaur is believed to have been, the Tyrannasaurus Rex.
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Extinction of the dinosaurs.
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It is difficult to comprehend the vast stretch of time that dinosaurs lived on Earth.They lasted well over a hundred and fifty million years.Tyrannosarus rex was among the last of the dinosaurs;it died out sixty-five million years ago.Human beings have been around for only two or three million years.It will be a long time before we equal the duration of the dinosaurs' stay on Earth.
Sixty Million Dollar Man was created in 1995.
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