Dinosaur fossils are used as evidence to support the theory of evolution. However, when we look closer, we can see that the fossil record in fact supports the creationist perspective.
Dinosaurs and the Flood
Dinosaurs were buried rapidly. They are sometimes found in large numbers, and often have distinct stream orientation, which means that they were washed into position by a flood. Scientists say that floods often happened in the plains where the dinosaurs lived. However, dinosaur fossil beds sometimes stretch over thousands of square kilometers. These beds are not made from small, seasonal floods.
Some dinosaur fossils were even found in marine deposits, suggesting that they were washed out to sea. Not too long ago, a Scelidosaurus fossil was found surrounded by algae and mollusks. This fossil even had skin tissue.
Dinosaurs in the Fossil Record
The heaviest dinosaur on record is the 100-ton Argentinosaurus. The largest is a sauropod that could have been 50 meters long and 14 meters tall. These animals do not prove evolution, but rather disprove it. Animals with such diversity in size and form must have had a recognizable lineage, but this lineage cannot be found in the fossil record.
Large groups of dinosaur eggs have been found in Argentina, and scientists believe these clusters were dinosaur nurseries. However, these well-preserved eggs were buried rapidly in silt from a flood.ii An article about paleontologist Luis Chiappe and the Argentinean cluster of dinosaur eggs says this:
Scientists found so many embryonic remains that it appears catastrophe struck the nesting ground, keeping many eggs from hatching...Floods may have penetrated the porous shells and drowned the embryos.
Dinosaurs and Birds
Some say that dinosaurs did not become extinct, but rather evolved into the birds we see today. The evolution of birds is traced to dinosaurs, but there are some major problems with these assumptions. The feathered dinosaur Compsognathus has been linked to birds, but only because it has feathers.
Birds lack the embryonic thumb that dinosaurs had, making it "almost impossible" for them to be related.iv As well, the differences between the dinosaur lung and the bird lung make it unlikely that birds could have evolved from dinosaurs. Scientist John Ruben and his team studied the feathered Sinosauropteryx, and said that its "bellowlike lungs could not have evolved into the high-performance lungs of modern birds."
Fossils are the crux of the theory of evolution. However, the very fossils so crucial to evolution contain evidence to prove that dinosaurs and birds are in fact not related. The fossil evidence also shows proof of a worldwide flood, which could destroy the very foundations of the evolutionary theory.
References:
*D. J. Batten, D. K. Loydell, and D. M. Martill, "A new specimen of the thyreophram dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with soft tissue preservation," Paleontology 43 (2000): 549-559.
*Luis Chiappe et al., "Sauropod dinosaur embryos from the late Cretaceous of Patagonia," Nature 396 (1998): 258-261.
"Dinosaur 'lost world' discovered," BBC Online Network (1998).
*A. C. Burke and A. Feduccia "Developmental patterns and the identification of homologies in the avian hand," Science 278 (1997): 666-668. See also Richard Hinchcliffe, "The forward march of the bird-dinosaur halted," on pages 596-597 of the same issue.
*Ann Gibbons, "Lung Fossils suggest dinos breathed in cold blood," Science 278 (1997): 1129-1130.
This article is adapted from Genesis Conflict by Professor Walter J. Veith, PhD Zoology, renowned author, scientist, and lecturer from South Africa's Cape Town University. Veith believes that the theory of evolution does not provide a plausible explanation of our origins. His findings are also available on DVD or through Amazing Discoveries TV.
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