Why were dinosaurs important?

Answer 1

A:If dinosaurs were important, it is because they were a necessary step along the evolutionary road to modern life forms.

Another Answer:

For the above categories, dinosaurs are not important. The Bible records the history of physical life only as far back as the renewal of the earth in preparation for the creation of Adam and Eve. It does not speak of creatures that lived on the earth before that time (possible exception may be the 'behemoth' of Job 40).

Without divine revelation, and with so many geologic upheavals of the earth, there is no way of knowing for sure what these creatures were, what they actually looked like, when they existed or what purpose they served. Yet, the vivid and unbounded imaginations of man will continue to attempt to give an answer, which in my lifetime has changed several times.