THIS Is How the Dinosaurs Really Went Extinct | Ken Ham

what really happened to the dinosaurs well that's easy it's a two-word answer they died but let's understand this more fully the word dinosaur was first invented in 1841 and it was a name invented by Sir Richard Owen a famous British anatomist because he had found the bones of creatures called Iguanodon and Megalosaurus and they recognized they had certain features in their skeletons and so they were a different kind of land animal and he invented the name dinosaur from two Greek words uh denos and sorus which means terrible lizard of course later on we find out that many in the dinosaur kinds weren't that terrible in the sense of they weren't that big uh the average size of a dinosaur is really the size of a bison and now we would say there are about 80 different kinds of dinosaurs all different sizes most were not that large now a lot of Christians say how do you fit dinosaurs into the Bible Well you don't do that we we've got to start with God's word because we have a revelation given to us from God and in Genesis 1:11 that is the foundational history for everything to understand the origin of all the basic entities of life in the universe and to give us the foundation for a truly biblical worldview so when we start with Genesis we know that God made all the kinds of land animals on day six alongside of Adam and Eve well what we today call dinosaurs would be a subset of that so of say a thousand kinds of land animals God made about 80 of those kinds will be dinosaurs because we believe there are about a thousand kinds that were needed on Noah's Ark the species we have today are not the kinds uh there are species within a kind so in other words the dog kind gave rise to all the dog species we have today we know God created what we call today dinosaurs on day six two of each kind of land dwelling air breathing animal went on Noah's Ark so the 80 dinosaur kinds as a subset of the Thousand animal kinds God created uh would have gone on board Noah's Ark they came off the ark After the flood uh those that were drowned during the flood some of them were turned into fossils which is why we have fossils of dinosaurs and then because of the flood the flood caused climate change that's right there's been climate change ever since the flood if people don't believe in the flood of no day they will not understand climate change there's been all sorts of climate changes since the flood and there will continue to be climate changes in a fallen world the flood generated an ice age that caused dramatic climate change then the Ice Age started to recede that caused dramatic climate change so there's been all sorts of climate changes not caused by man only in the sense of man sinned and changed everything a man rebelled against God and God judged with the flood but uh not directly by man in the sense of what man does uh today in regard to his technology the industrial machinery and so on it's not to do with that so the flood caused massive climate change and as climates have changed over the years there have been animals in different places that for many reasons have become extinct uh the dinosaurs as far as we know have become extinct but for the same reasons really uh people kill animals off we even talk about that today that animals in an area can become extinct because of people hunting them disease can cause problems they can hunt each other and kill each other there can be catastrophes uh there could be famines there all sorts of reasons our animals become extinct and so over time the dinosaurs uh became extinct too so there's no real mystery when you start from God's word and build a Biblical worldview to understand dinosaurs there's no mystery at all so when I started off by saying they died that's what happened to them they died for the same reason that many other animals have died and many other animals have become extinct uh the dinosaurs it seems are all extinct too but who knows maybe one day someone might find one of the kinds within the dinosaur Group after all there have been many finds over the years of animals they thought became extinct millions of years ago and suddenly find them living today they're called living fossils of course that's not a surprise to creationists it's a surprise to to evolutionists though at the Creation Museum we have a living fossil in our big aquarium in the main hall it's a garfish garfish are considered living fossils because they supposedly existed millions of years ago and they appear in the fossil record supposedly millions of years ago and then suddenly they find them living today the cican fish is another example of a so-called living fossil so who knows maybe a dinosaur and remember most dinosaurs are pretty small really many of the size of chickens who knows where the one might be found living like they found you know the seaan fish or we found garfish you know then if they did find one they call it a living fossil but as far as we know dinosaurs are extinct in fact many of the flood legends that we have around the world are attesting to the fact there was a real flood well there are Dragon Legends all over the world that we believe attest to the fact there are real animals they called dragons and some of those descriptions fit the dinosaur so it could be that before the word dinosaur was invented those same sorts of creatures people called dragons and we know that people hunted the dragons so it could be one of the reasons why some of them became extinct so there we are what happened to the dinosaurs they died we live at a time in which the Bible is vly attacked particularly in the history in Genesis 1:11 so we have produced a series of five books that contain answers to the most asked questions the main attacks on God's word today answering questions such as where did God come from how do we know there's a God what about carbon dating Dinosaurs the days of creation can we really trust the Bible and so on the most asked questions that are used to try to undermine the Bible and attack the Bible and Destroy its Authority we have answered those in this series of five volumes called the answers books

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Length: 6min 31sec (391 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2024