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MEAT·EATING DINOSAUR -
Photo shows
the dinosour,
Allosourus frogilis,
mounted
os if feeding upon o brontosour skeleton.
This ollosour skeleton from the Morrison
beds of Colorado is obout thirty feet long.
years for the earth's climate to change.
Surely,
if
evolution were a fact, these
reptiles could adapt themselves to it.
Perhaps it got too hot for the dino–
saurs?
"lt
is an ingenious idea, but there is
no geological evidence to support the
concept of temperature increases at the
dose of the Cretaceous period"
(Dino–
Jttttrs,
Edwin H. Colbert, p.
254).
What about food problems?
The fossi l record shows that the
plants eaten by the dinosaurs were still
very much available to them at the time
of the Great Extinction. Perhaps sorne
could have been extinguished
IF
the
food supply in a certain area or of a
certain kind were not available. But this
idea cannot account for the extinctioo
of ALL dinosaurs EVERnVHERE.
Perhaps great disease epidemics swept
the earth at that time? This solution is
also rejected by most scientists - and
for good reasons. Most epidemics are
very specific,
attacking only one species
of animal or are relatively limited in
their effects, killing off only a portion
of that species.
One paleontologist candidly confesses
that "it is stretching credulity far be–
yond the bounds of reason to suppose
that a series of epidemics could have
Courtésy
Am~ricon
Museum of Natural History
brought about the disappearance of ALL
dinosaurs"
(Dinosam·s,
Edwin H. Col–
bert, pp.
255, 256).
Poorly Constructed -
or Something?
Could it be that dinosaurs were badly
constructed? No! Dinosaurs were WELL
CONSTRUCTED! And can we, in all hon–
esty, postulat.e that ALL the varied dino–
saurs and other forros of life in the
land, in the seas, and in the air were
ALL "badly constmcted"?
Another quaint theory has certain so–
called, primitive "mammals" having a
yen for dinosau.r eggs- eating the huge
reptiles literally off the face of the
earth.
Impossible!
The living N ile monitor, for ex–
ample, avidly hunts and devours eggs of
the Nile crocodile. But it has not suc–
ceeded in exterminating its larger rela–
tive.
But more important, the fossil record
shows that true mammals of the type
and variety of today did NOT ARJSE
uotil
after
the dinosaurs were extinct.
This explanation, as the others, simply
doesn't hold water.
The idea of "racial senescence" is an
old theory - aod that is all it is, a
theory! Few competent paleontologists
would accept the idea that dinosaurs
just grew old and tired as a race or
species!
Remember, extremely varied reptilian
forms living worldwide, ALL
DIED
at
January,
1970
once. Even if the senility idea were
plausible, would all the varied forms of
life which became extinct -
alt
reach
this so called senility state TOGETHER?
So much for one half of the ideas.
What About Catastrophes?
The other half of the
categor~es
usu–
ally cited involve sorne form of "local"
CATASTROPHE. However, to do the job
of extinguishing the reptilian bordes,
these catastrophes would have to be
worldwide
in extent.
Why?
Because we lind d inosaur graveyards
in all parts of the world. But such ca–
tastrophes would need to account for
MORE than just the dinosaurs' mys–
terious obliteration .
The great crisis in the history of life
at that time also destroyed the great MA–
RJNE reptiles - the ichthyosaurs, ple–
siosaurs, and the mosasaurs. These ALL
DIED
simultaneously with the dinosaurs
- even though they lived in the seas.
Other types of life in the sea, and in
the air as well, also totally perished. The
great winged dragons, the pterosaurs,
had the amazing wingspread of
23
to
25
feet. The final remains of these flying
reptiles are found along with the dino–
saurs. Their fate was the same.
But scientists are unwilling to accept
sudden catastrophes if they are
world–
wide
in extent.
"An obvious and all too easy ex–
planation is the
catastrophic one.
Did
sorne great event take place that wiped
out these reptiles?" Colbert asks.
His answer?
"There is
NO PLACE for world–
wide catastrophes
in the world of the
past or of the present
IF the pri11cipte
of tmiformitarianism
[the idea that
existing processes acting in the same
manner as at present are sufficient to ac–
count for all geological changes] has
any validity"
(The Age of Reptiles,
Edwín Colbert, pp.
203, 204).
Universal Catastrophes Rejected
Aod that's just the problem! Scat–
tered local catastrophes are accepted.
But worldwide catastrophe is denied
consideration. The theory that all geo–
logical processes have continued at basi–
cally the same rate as we see them oc-