I suspect that you are wrong here Ed. 65 million years ago was when the (terrestrial) dinosaurs died out. The mammals evolved long before that:The earliest known mammals were the morganucodontids, tiny shrew-size creatures that lived in the shadows of the dinosaurs 210 million years ago. They were one of several different mammal lineages that emerged around that time. All living mammals today, including us, descend from the one line that survived.
The dinosaurs were Presbyterian?Pretty cool though I don’t see what this has to do with apologetics.
I’m guessing it is somehow related to the claim that men painted images of dinosaurs on cave walls. To which I responded, if they could see them to paint them, they could catch them to eat them. So why haven’t we found any dinosaur bones in the garbage of prehistoric human settlements?Pretty cool though I don’t see what this has to do with apologetics.
As Ed would say “Nice attempts at obfuscation.” How dare you bring up facts to confuse the discussion!
I would add that if mammals were eating dinosaurs this argues against the suggestion that humans found dinosaurs inedible or undesirable. So the fact that mammals ate dinosaurs argues even more strongly that if dinos were around in the time of humans, humans would have eaten them.
Me wrong? Not in this case. You may have noticed in previous threads that National Geographic was discredited as being a ‘popular’ i.e. non-peer reviewed publication. My wording clearly referred to the new, larger than a shrew discoveries. The reference to the 65 million years was in the article.
Keep young earth creationism alive? No! Not that! What would happen if more people believed in a young earth? Dogs and cats would start living together? Puh leeez.
My apologies Ed, I was wrong. My mistake. (Reminds self to always check sources
).To the extent that YEC or any other belief puts faith in conflict with reason (in this case, reason as reflected through true scientific discovery and analysis), then such beliefs are bad for the faith, and are dangerous for the faithful, and can keep seekers from taking the Catholic faith seriously.